"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: COVID-19 vaccine

Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Post author By Orac
Post date December 31, 2020
148 Comments on Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Reports of Bell’s palsy and syncopy after vaccination with RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines remind us how antivaxxers will weaponize anything bad happening after vaccination. Sadly, I predict an impending tsunami of confusing correlation with causation.

Tags Bell's palsy, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, death, hpv, HPV vaccine, pandemic, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, SARS-CoV-2, sids, sudden infant death syndrome

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Vaccines cause female infertility: Another antivax lie resurrected and repackaged for COVID-19

Post author By Orac
Post date December 21, 2020
183 Comments on Vaccines cause female infertility: Another antivax lie resurrected and repackaged for COVID-19

No, Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doesn't cause female infertility

Antivaxxers have been claiming that vaccines cause female infertility for as long as I can remember. So it’s not surprising that they are now claiming that COVID-19 vaccines will make women infertile. Their assertion is based on a highly speculative and incredibly unlikely immunologic mechanism. Same as it ever was.

Tags casedemic, COVID denial, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, infertility, Michael Yeadon, pandemic, premature ovarian failure, primary ovarian insufficiency, syncytin, Wolfgang Wodarg

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