"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).

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Dr. Lawrence Palevsky: An antivaccine pediatrician who’s an endless font of misinformation

Post author By Orac
Post date February 5, 2020
76 Comments on Dr. Lawrence Palevsky: An antivaccine pediatrician who’s an endless font of misinformation

Dr. Lawrence Palevsky is an antivaccine pediatrician. His recent testimony before the Connecticut legislature, which is being touted on antivaccine websites, shows just how antivax he is.

Tags antivaccine, Connecticut, Lawrence Palevsky, quackery, vaccine

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The latest antivaccine conspiracy theory: The novel coronavirus behind the Wuhan outbreak is due to a failed SARS vaccine

Post author By Orac
Post date January 31, 2020
86 Comments on The latest antivaccine conspiracy theory: The novel coronavirus behind the Wuhan outbreak is due to a failed SARS vaccine

Yesterday, antivaxxers were saying that the flu vaccine caused the Wuhan 2019-nCoV outbreak because of viral interference. Now the outbreak is due to a failed SARS coronavirus vaccine. Can they get their conspiracy theories straight?

Tags 2019-nCoV, Age of Autism, antivaccine, bleach, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, IPAK, James Lyons-Weiler, MERS, miracle mineral solution, mms, QAnon, SARS, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines, viral interference, virus interference, Wuhan

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience

Blaming the flu vaccine for the COVID-19 outbreak: The latest antivaccine misinformation

Post author By Orac
Post date January 30, 2020
164 Comments on Blaming the flu vaccine for the COVID-19 outbreak: The latest antivaccine misinformation

Antivaccine activists are blaming the coronavirus outbreak in China on—what else?—the flu vaccine, because of course they are. All they have to do is to deceptively invoke “virus interference.” So science-y!