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Antivaxers are petitioning the White House and Antivaxer-in-Chief President Donald Trump to listen to their demands.

Antivaxers think they have a friend in the White House, and they might very well be right.

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Bogus “challenges” to prove the scientific consensus: The M.O. of a crank

"Come at me, bro'! You can't win because my $100,000 challenge is rigged!"

Cranks love ’em: Cash “challenges” demanding that skeptics and scientists “prove” the scientific consensus. Of course, these challenges are always rigged.

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Another zombie antivaccine study rises from the grave

Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers

Antivaccine studies never die, even if they are retracted. They rise to kill again.

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In the age of Donald Trump, vaccine policy is becoming politicized, with potentially deadly consequences

Vaccine mandates for school used to be about as nonpartisan an issue as we had in the US. There was broad bipartisan support for policies to assure that children are vaccinated before they attend school, and it was a policy that worked for decades. Unfortunately, increasing politicization of vaccine policy threatens to destroy that consensus and undermine public health.

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How antivaxers deceptively don the mantle of “vaccine safety activists”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De Niro laid down a stinking bomb of stupid last week. Pratik Chougule ate it up.

Antivaxers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bend over backwards to represent themselves as “not antivaccine.” Don’t believe them. They are. It’s how they suck in the clueless, like Robert De Niro and Pratik Chougule.