"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

Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

In which David Freedman criticizes health journalism and simultaneously destroys my irony meter

Post author By Orac
Post date January 10, 2013
8 Comments on In which David Freedman criticizes health journalism and simultaneously destroys my irony meter

About a year and a half ago, I applied a heapin’ helpin’ of not-so-Respectful Insolence to a a clueless article about the the “triumph” of New Age medicine. The article channeled the worst fallacies of apologists for alternative medicine. Basically, its whole idea appeared to be that, even if most of “complementary and alternative medicine” […]

Tags clinical trials, David Freedman, health reporting, John Ioannidis, journalism

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