"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).

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The antimask antivax Brownstone Institute is still ranting about COVID-19 “censorship”

Post author By Orac
Post date September 13, 2023
35 Comments on The antimask antivax Brownstone Institute is still ranting about COVID-19 “censorship”

Censorship? How antivaxxers view themselves.

The Brownstone Institute is at it again, claiming that the mainstream media are all about “censorship” of “divergent” ideas about COVID-19.

Tags AIER, American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, Brownstone Institute, censorship, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Focused Protection, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, Jeffrey Tucker, Joseph Fraiman, journalism, myocarditis, natural herd immunity, Rav Arora, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines

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AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Post author By Orac
Post date October 29, 2020
68 Comments on AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Cranks love a heroic persecution narrative, and the climate science-denying right wing think tank American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) has a doozy: COVID-19 “anti-lockdown” cranks like Scott Atlas and those behind the Great Barrington Declaration are the new abolitionists! This is a page from the antivax playbook.

Tags AIER, American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, Focused Protection, Fugitive Slave Act, Great Barrington Declaration, herd immunity, lockdown, persecution, SARS-CoV-2, slavery, Stacey Rudin, vaccines

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