"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

Urgency of Normal, the Great Barrington Declaration, and the antivax movement

Post author By Orac
Post date March 9, 2022
64 Comments on Urgency of Normal, the Great Barrington Declaration, and the antivax movement

Florida antivax antimask "Urgency of Normal" — Besides the horrible image, what was also horrible was the presence of all manner of COVID-19 cranks, including antimaskers and antivaxxers.

On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis convened a roundtable including “Urgency of Normal,” Great Barrington Declaration authors, and antivaxxers. This was no coincidence, given the common talking points and causes between the groups.

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Return of the revenge of the COVID vaccine “spike” in your DNA

Post author By Orac
Post date March 7, 2022
63 Comments on Return of the revenge of the COVID vaccine “spike” in your DNA

Slasher lies — Claims like this remind me of slashers in horror movies. They always come back after apparently having "died."

Claims that COVID-19 vaccines “permanently alter your DNA” were resurrected recently based on a dubious study. No matter how many times you think this myth has been debunked, it always comes back for another installment of the same misinformation franchise.

Tags antivaccine, COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, IPAK, Jessica Rose, Substack, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

About that magical mystical “natural immunity” against COVID-19

Post author By Orac
Post date February 28, 2022
146 Comments on About that magical mystical “natural immunity” against COVID-19

Those opposed to public health interventions to slow the spread of COVID-19, including masks, “lockdowns,” and vaccine mandates, are hyping “natural” immunity again as somehow “superior” to vaccine-acquired immunity. It’s a deceptive simplification of a complex issue.

Tags antivaccine, COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, hybrid immunity, natural immunity, oost-infection immunity, public health, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Biology Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Marc Girardot: A “COVID myth buster” who doesn’t know chemistry

Post author By Orac
Post date February 25, 2022
56 Comments on Marc Girardot: A “COVID myth buster” who doesn’t know chemistry

Marc Girardot vs. bouncing balls of spike — Because macroscopic bouncing balls are *just* like microscopic nanoparticles and mRNA molecules. (That's sarcasm, of course.)

Marc Girardot is a tech guy turned COVID-19 contrarian. His analogy to falsely “explain” why mRNA vaccines are deadly shows an astounding lack of understanding of basic chemistry.

Tags antivaccine, biochemistry, BioNTech, chemistry, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, lipid nanoparticles, Marc Girardot, Moderna, mRNA, PANDA, Pfizer, spike protein, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Computers and social media Medicine Politics Popular culture

John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Post author By Orac
Post date February 23, 2022
67 Comments on John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Kim Kardashian — It's time for the Kardahsian index and John Ioannidis, round two.

John Ioannidis’ “science Kardashian” article is the bad science that keeps demonstrating why we should have no superheroes in science. Ideology can warp any of us.

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