"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: Gregg Gonsalves

Cureus retracted his article, and now Steve Kirsch is suing

Post author By Orac
Post date March 7, 2024
44 Comments on Cureus retracted his article, and now Steve Kirsch is suing

Cureus retracted a misinformation-packed paper. Now Steve Kirsch and its authors are threatening to sue for $250 million. Hilarity quickly ensued.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Cureus, Gregg Gonsalves, Jessica Rose, John Moore, M. Nathaniel Mead, Peter McCullough, Retraction Watch, Russ Wolfinger, Springer Nature, Stephanie Seneff, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Coronaphobia: How COVID-19 minimizers shame the responsible

Post author By Orac
Post date May 23, 2022
58 Comments on Coronaphobia: How COVID-19 minimizers shame the responsible

Dr. Lucy McBride, a concierge medicine doctor who has become famous as a pandemic minimizer and one of the drivers of “Urgency of Normal”, Tweeted an article that she had written over a year ago about “coronaphobia”. Whether she understands it or not, this is a very old antivax trope: To pathologize fear of infectious disease as mental illness.

Tags coronaphobia, COVID contrarian, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Gregg Gonsalves, Lucy McBride

Share this:

Share this: