"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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Medical Hypotheses is back, and it’s pushing antimask disinformation

Post author By Orac
Post date April 21, 2021
88 Comments on Medical Hypotheses is back, and it’s pushing antimask disinformation

Medical Hypotheses is a fringe journal published by Elsevier that’s long been known for publishing pseudoscience, such as antivax and HIV/AIDS denial. In the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s now back with antimask nonsense.

Tags antimask, bad science, Baruch Vainshelboim, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, Elsevier, mask, masks, Medical Hypotheses, pandemic

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Elsevier to Medical Hypotheses editor Bruce Charlton: Enough is enough

Post author By Orac
Post date March 11, 2010
131 Comments on Elsevier to Medical Hypotheses editor Bruce Charlton: Enough is enough

These days, I’m having a love-hate relationship with Elsevier. On the one hand, there are lots of reasons to hate Elsevier. For example, Elsevier took payments from Merck, Sharp & Dohme in order to publish in essence a fake journal designed to promote its products, and then got caught doing it again. On the other […]

Tags AIDS, Bruce Charlton, HIV, Medical Hypotheses, Peter Duesberg, vaccines

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