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Molecular mimicry: The new old antivaccine abuse of science

RFK Jr. Harlem Vaccine Forum molecular mimicry
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in one of his more animated moments, as he lays down antivax nonsense

Antivaxers are nothing if not persistent and sometimes creative abusing science. This time it’s molecular mimicry, because of course it is. Anything to blame vaccines for autoimmune disease!

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HPV vaccination works. Period.

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Antivaxers really, really don’t like HPV vaccines. Too bad that a new meta-analysis shows that they’re really effective.

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A dumpster fire of a study about HPV vaccination and female fertility, courtesy of Gayle Delong

Gayle Delong's dumpster fire

Gayle Delong is an economist who thinks she’s an epidemiologist. Consistent with that delusion, her latest study of HPV vaccination is all amateurs hour, in which she misses a major potential confounder on her way to “proving” that HPV vaccination could be associated with decreased fertility in young women.