Tag: John Leake

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Geoff Pain vs. The Wellness Company and RFK Jr.: I do so love a good crank fight!

Let Them Fight
This is what Orac always says about crank fights, although in this case it's less other kaiju vs. Godzilla and more Bambi vs. Godzilla.

Crank fight! Dr. Geoff Pain attacks RFK Jr.’s antivax org Children’s Health Defense for being in the pocket of big pharma. Hilarity ensues.

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Antivaccine nonsense Holocaust Holocaust denial Medicine

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman win the Nobel Prize, and antivaxxers lose it

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
Nobel Prize announcement for Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work with pseudouridine, which allowed the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Antivaxxers are losing their minds over it, and I’m here for it.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

COVID-19 as an “ethnically targeted” bioweapon: RFK Jr. embraces antisemitism and racism

RFK Jr. pondering an ethnically targeted bioweapon
RFK Jr. pondering how his life brought him to this.

A couple of weeks ago, RFK Jr. shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory that COVID-19 might have been an :”ethnically targeted” bioweapon that spared the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews, showing how conspiracy theories ultimately devolve into antisemitism. Then he denied it. Same as it ever was.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

“I know you are, but what am I?” John Leake and Peter McCullough vs. conspiracy theories

John Leake and Dr. Peter McCullough on being a conspiracy theorist
John Leake and Dr. Peter McCullough on being a conspiracy theorist: "I know you are, but what am I?"

COVID-19 cranks and antivaxxers John Leake and Dr. Peter McCullough are unhappy at correctly being labeled conspiracy theorists. So what does Leake do? Engage in projection, of course!