Tag: quackery

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Donald Trump and the return of the antivax “monster shot”

Donald Trump meets with RFK Jr.
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. (along with Mike Pence) in 2016 during the presidential transition period. I never thought I'd be writing about these two meeting again.

Donald Trump called Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to try to gain his support. During the call, he repeated antivax tropes that he’s been repeating since 2007. A second Trump administration would be a public health disaster.

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Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Access Consciousness: Energy medicine woo and new phrenology

Access Consciousness and Bars
Access Consciousness and Access Bars: Pure quackery and modern phrenology.

Access Consciousness claims to show how to improve your mental and physical health by touching 32 Access Bars on your scalp. It’s basically phrenology reborn and fused with “energy medicine.”

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

From DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) to DNA alteration by vaccines

Bradstreet vs. DNA?
Jeff Bradstreet addressing the Autism One quackfest.

Apparently Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) icon Jeff Bradstreet was claiming DNA was “permanently altering” your DNA long before COVID vaccines. Or was he? This could just be a case of mixing and matching conspiracy theories, like Garanimals.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Dr. Pierre Kory has gone all-in on anti-statin quackery

Pierre Kory vs. ABIM?
Double cringe...

COVID contrarian turned antivax crank Dr. Pierre Kory has now embraced statin denial quackery. His evolution from COVID contrarian to all-purpose quack is now complete.

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Cancer Medicine Quackery

FLCCC co-founder Paul Marik has gone full cancer quack

Paul Marik, quack
Cringe...

FLCCC co-founder Dr. Paul Marik has gone full cancer quack, deceptively disparaging chemotherapy to promote his grift of “repurposed drugs.” Everything old is new again.