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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

The Brownstone Institute fear mongers about mRNA vaccines

mRNA vaccines
mRNA vaccines.

Alan Lash is fear mongering about mRNA vaccines in general, once again putting the lie to the Brownstone Institute’s denials of being antivax.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery

Ivermectin goes from being the new hydroxychloroquine to being the new MMS

Horse Ivermectin
Horse Ivermectin

A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to “cure” autism by eliminating “parasites.”

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Politics Popular culture

The GOP was the antivax party before Ron DeSantis, but now he’s turbocharged its resistance

Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis fancies himself a Nuremberg prosecutor.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has apparently decided that riding the antivax wave is his key to the GOP nomination. This wouldn’t have represented a viable strategy if the GOP hadn’t become the antivax party over the last decade or so.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

“Can colleges mandate Ozempic?” Clever or clueless analogy? You be the judge!

Ozempic
I hate the Ozempic jingle almost as much as I hate Dr. Prasad's brain dead analogy. Almost.

Dr. Vinay Prasad compares college booster mandates to mandating Ozempic in obese students. How are these things different from each other? Let me count the ways. How disingenuous is Dr. Prasad? Let me count the ways.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Alan Lash recycles an old prepandemic antivax trope

Lash vs doctors
It its impressive that Lash resisted going to the old antivax standby of doctors shilling for tobacco companies. That's what makes him a skilled propagandist.

Everything old is new yet again, as Brownstone Institute’s Alan Lash recycles old antivax tropes about doctors supposedly being in the thrall of big pharma and therefore untrustworthy.