"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Tag: antivaccine

Gov. Ron DeSantis grants antivaxxers their wish, a mini-“Nuremberg 2.0”

Post author By Orac
Post date December 16, 2022
115 Comments on Gov. Ron DeSantis grants antivaxxers their wish, a mini-“Nuremberg 2.0”

Since long before the pandemic,antivaxxers have fantasized about Nuremberg-like tribunals (a “Nuremberg 2.0, if you will) to punish vaccine advocates. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now giving them their wish.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Florida, Florida Department of Health, Joseph Ladapo, Nuremberg 2, Nuremberg Code, Nuremberg Trials, Public Health Integrity Committee, quackery, Ron DeSantis, Statewide Grand Jury, vaccine, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Evolution Medicine

After their COVID success, antivaxxers are going old school on MMR

Post author By Orac
Post date December 14, 2022
32 Comments on After their COVID success, antivaxxers are going old school on MMR

COVID-19? MMR? Everything old is new again.

After using old antivax tropes against COVID-19 vaccines, antivaxxers are pivoting to reuse them to attack measles vaccines again. Everything old is new again—and old again.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, antivaccine tropes, COVID, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID variants, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, evolution, Geert Vanden Bossche, James Lyons-Weiler, measles, MMR, RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Projection, thy name is Joe Mercola (and Aseem Malhotra)

Post author By Orac
Post date December 10, 2022
154 Comments on Projection, thy name is Joe Mercola (and Aseem Malhotra)

In a classic case of projection, Joe Mercola claims a “pandemic of misinformed doctors.” He’s right, but not for the reason he thinks. The misinformed doctors are him and his fellow antivax docs.