"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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Big antivax sites amplify Paul Thacker’s hit piece on Dr. Allison Neitzel

Post author By Orac
Post date April 6, 2024
28 Comments on Big antivax sites amplify Paul Thacker’s hit piece on Dr. Allison Neitzel

A week ago, Dr. Allison Neitzel posted an “apology” to some particularly odious antivax quacks. Predictably, the big antivax sites went into high gear to use the forced apology to amplify attacks on her.

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Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 7: Are there positive studies that aren’t fraudulent?

Post author By Orac
Post date October 18, 2021
49 Comments on Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 7: Are there positive studies that aren’t fraudulent?

Ivermectin propaganda — This is an example of propaganda that promotes ivermectin as a cure for COVID-19. (It's also being promoted for cancer.)

Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, a drug repurposed for COVID-19 that almost certainly doesn’t work but is still being touted as a “miracle cure” by quacks, grifters, and political ideologues. Are the data supporting it all fraudulent and/or biased? The answer, increasingly, appears to be yes.

Tags astroturf, COVID, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, FLCCC, fraud, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, Kyle Sheldrick

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