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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

Come on, Jeffrey Tucker and Great Barrington Declaration, just admit you were wrong

Admit you were wrong?
Why does this post feature an image of Taylor Swift? Simple. The article by Peggy Noonan that so triggered Jeffrey Tucker was about, of all things, how great Taylor Swift is and how she should be TIME's Person of the Year.

In response to an article praising Taylor Swift, Jeffrey Tucker demands that Peggy Noonan “admit she was wrong” about COVID-19. Hilarity ensues.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

How “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic destroyed public health

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

Jeffrey Tucker recently bragged that “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic like his Great Barrington Declaration had “changed everything.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t wrong and worse, these changes were not a good thing.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

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

Censorship? How antivaxxers view themselves.
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.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

“Censorship”: The word disinformation artists use when called out

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

COVID-19 minimizers and antivaxxers at the Brownstone Institute, the “spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration,” really don’t like having their disinformation called out.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Brownstone flack Gabrielle Bauer admits that the Great Barrington Declaration was wrong

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Gabrielle Bauer of the Brownstone Institute tacitly admits that the central premise of the Great Barrington Declaration was badly wrong, but brushes it off a just “details.”

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