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MAHA: The “we’re not antivax” mask has been dropped

Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery

On Monday, the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse joined President Trump to blame autism on acetaminophen use during pregnancy. They couldn’t resist adding antivax misinformation as well.

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Quackery

Scott Adams vs. a cancer quack

“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams recently revealed that he has stage 4 prostate cancer. He tried to treat it with cancer quack William Makis’ protocol and realized that quackery doesn’t work, leading Makis to attack the victim.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

The soft eugenics of MAHA: Measles and RFK Jr.

I’ve long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Given the ongoing measles outbreak, with two children dead so far, it’s time for me to take a look at the “soft eugenics” of the antivax movement and, more generally, the MAHA movement.

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Antivaccine nonsense History Medicine Quackery

MAHA: The new Lysenkoism

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial. Will his results be as disastrous?