"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

Drs. Vladimir Zelenko and Stephen Smith: Abandoning evidence-based medicine to promote unproven drugs for COVID-19

Post author By Orac
Post date April 3, 2020
113 Comments on Drs. Vladimir Zelenko and Stephen Smith: Abandoning evidence-based medicine to promote unproven drugs for COVID-19

Drs. Vladimir Zelenko and Stephen Smith have been claiming that hydroxychloroquine is a miracle drug based on anecdotes. Their shoddy, poorly reported case series are not evidence of efficacy.

Tags azithromycin, chloroquine, clinical trials, COVID-19, Donald Trump, FOX News, hydroxychloroquine, Laura Ingraham, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Stephen Smith, Vladimir Zelenko

Bad science Clinical trials Medicine Politics Popular culture Skepticism/critical thinking

The FDA’s emergency use authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: Dangerous politics, not science

Post author By Orac
Post date April 1, 2020
80 Comments on The FDA’s emergency use authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: Dangerous politics, not science

Levi Quackenboss, COVID-19 with spike protein, and hydroxychloroquine

Yesterday, the FDA issued emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroqine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19. Politics, not science, is why.

Tags chloroquine, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, fda, Food and Drug Administration, hydroxychloroquine, SARS-CoV-2

Antivaccine nonsense Popular culture Pseudoscience

No, the flu vaccine does not increase your chance of getting coronavirus by 36% due to viral interference

Post author By Orac
Post date March 31, 2020
75 Comments on No, the flu vaccine does not increase your chance of getting coronavirus by 3675 due to viral interference

Antivax claims that the flu vaccine increases risk of coronavirus infection

An antivaccine meme claiming that, because of viral interference, the flu vaccine increases the risk of coronavirus by 36%. It’s a lie based on a cherry-picked result of a negative study and confusing benign coronavirus with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Tags antivaccine, Benjamin Krause, coronavirus, COVID-19, influenza, Matt Couch, SARS-CoV-2, Serge Gregoire, vaccine, viral interference, virus, virus interference

Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

COVID-19 pandemic: A golden opportunity for quackery

Post author By Orac
Post date March 13, 2020
308 Comments on COVID-19 pandemic: A golden opportunity for quackery

COVID-19 is upon us. Unfortunately, quacks view the coronavirus pandemic not as a threat, but as an opportunity.

Tags colloidal silver, coronavirus, COVID-19, elderberry, Hulda Clark, Kate Tietje, Modern Alternative Mama, quackery

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

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

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