"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

Barbara Loe Fisher cries “McCarthyism!” over vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date July 17, 2019
116 Comments on Barbara Loe Fisher cries “McCarthyism!” over vaccines

Barbara Loe Fisher is back. This time, instead of Nazis and the Holocaust, she’s comparing vaccine mandates and bad press about antivaxers to McCarthyism and their “persecution” to that faced by anyone suspected of Communism in the early 1950s.

Tags antivaccine, Barbara Loe Fisher, Holocaust, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, Nazi, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery

Why did the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities elect antivaccine quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 8, 2019
34 Comments on Why did the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities elect antivaccine quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks?

Last month, the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities elected antivax quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks? Why and how could this have happened?

Tags antivaccine, ASIA, Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, pseudoscience, quackery, vaccines, Yehuda Shoenfeld

Antivaccine nonsense Politics Popular culture

SB 277 and bogus medical exemptions to vaccine mandates in California

Post author By Orac
Post date July 5, 2019
233 Comments on SB 277 and bogus medical exemptions to vaccine mandates in California

California and medical exemptions — An antivaccine protest against SB 277 in California. Unfortunately, such protests aren't just for California any more.

In 2015 California passed SB 277, which eliminated nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates. Unfortunately quacks are writing bogus exemptions. What can be done?

Tags antivaccine, Bob Sears, California, Kelly Sutton, quackery, SB 276, SB 277, school vaccine mandates, vaccines

Complementary and alternative medicine Computers and social media Integrative medicine Medicine Popular culture Quackery

Facebook joins Google in deprioritizing medical misinformation: Are social media companies finally “getting it”?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 3, 2019
38 Comments on Facebook joins Google in deprioritizing medical misinformation: Are social media companies finally “getting it”?

Yesterday, social media giant Facebook announced that it was acting against medical misinformation by using keyphrases to deprioritize results promoting misinformation and scams? Is it enough, and is it too late?

Tags antivaccine, Facebook, Google, quackery, quckery, search engine, social media, Twitter, vaccine, YouTube

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery

Has Google finally adjusted its algorithm to deprioritize quack content? Dr. Mercola thinks so.

Post author By Orac
Post date June 26, 2019
212 Comments on Has Google finally adjusted its algorithm to deprioritize quack content? Dr. Mercola thinks so.

Everyone’s favorite quack Joe Mercola is ranting about Google. It’s not surprising, given how Google has apparently deprioritized content from quack websites..

Tags antivaccine, Facebook, Google, Joseph Mercola, Kelly Brogan, Mike Adams

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