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Mark Sircus: MMS (bleach) for COVID “vaccine-induced cancer”

Mark Sircus and chlorine dioxide
Hint: This is NOT a cure for cancer or COVID-19. It's a form of bleach and used in water disinfection.

Mark Sircus is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who’s now promoting MMS (bleach) for COVID-19 “vaccine-induced cancer.”

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

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

Natural immunity
"Nature" is always better?

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.

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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.

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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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“Science Kardashians” versus the Great Barrington Declaration?

"Science Kardashians"?

John Ioannidis has used a satirical bibliometrics index to portray Great Barrington Declaration signatories, who argue for a “natural herd immunity” approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the underdogs mobbed by “science Kardashians.” Why?