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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 Cancer Medicine

No, COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause “accelerated aging” (and cancer)

Accelerated aging

A recent presentation at AACR found a link between markers of accelerated aging and an increased risk of cancer. Then antivaxxers got a hold of it to blame COVID-19 vaccines not just for cancer, but for “accelerated aging” causing it.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery

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

Children's Health Defense

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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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Quackery

Mark Sircus tries to rebrand quackery as “natural allopathic medicine”

Mark Sircus
Mark Sircus sure loves him some magnesium.

The term “allopathic medicine” was invented by homeopaths in the 19th century as a disparaging term for medicine. So to see a quack like Mark Sircus try to coopt it as “natural allopathic medicine” is quite something.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

HPV lies: Another example of how everything old antivax has been reborn as “new” again

Everything old is new again

By embracing decade-old HPV vaccine fear mongering, COVID-19 “turbo cancer” quack Dr. William Makis demonstrates how everything old is new again among antivaxxers.