Tag: COVID-19 quackery

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Eliminating school vaccine mandates is the antivax endgame

Endgame: School vaccine mandates
Not that Endgame! I'm talking about the antivaxxers's endgame of eliminating school vaccine mandates. (Thanos killing half the universe is an appropriate image, though.)

The endgame of the antivaccine movement has always been the elimination of school vaccine mandates. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the timeline for them to accomplish this.

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Medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery

What do Tucker Carlson, testicular tanning, and fascism have in common?

Carlson's testicle tan
This is a real still from the trailer for Tucker Carlson's The End of Men (I kid you not), complete with Also sprach Zarathustra as its soundtrack (a famous composition by Richard Strauss, the fanfare from which was most recognizably used in the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey) swelling—if you'll excuse the word—to a crescendo over the imagery.

Last week, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson ran a trailer for The End of Men, a special claiming that men are getting weak due to low testosterone levels. It’s pure fascist worship of “masculinity” combined with “bromeopathy.”

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Bad science Medicine Politics Pseudoscience

The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) strikes back again

The GBD: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
The GBD: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Cranks love to cry “Persecution!” So it’s no surprise that GBD authors are striking back against critics with that narrative. Again.

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Bad science Biology Clinical trials Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

SBM versus ivermectin and other implausible treatments

Science, a.k.a. SBM
Science (in this case, SBM) predicted the failure of ivermectin in clinical trials.

Another large randomized controlled trial for ivermectin showed no efficacy for the early treatment of COVID-19. This is not a surprise to science-based medicine advocates. Here’s why the story of ivermectin shows that SBM isn’t just for “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) —and never was.

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Bad science Clinical trials Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Yet another negative ivermectin study, this time in the NEJM

Ivermectin and fraud?

Yesterday the The New England Journal of Medicine published a high quality clinical trial that found no benefit in treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. Cue attacks on the study.