"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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Ivermectin goes from being the new hydroxychloroquine to being the new MMS

Post author By Orac
Post date March 27, 2023
56 Comments on Ivermectin goes from being the new hydroxychloroquine to being the new MMS

A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to “cure” autism by eliminating “parasites.”

Tags antivaccine, Autism, autism biomed, cancer, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Danny Lemon, horse paste, horses, intestinal parasites, ivermectin, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, parasites, quackery, veterinary ivermectin

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Alan Lash recycles an old prepandemic antivax trope

Post author By Orac
Post date March 10, 2023
58 Comments on Alan Lash recycles an old prepandemic antivax trope

Lash vs doctors — It its impressive that Lash resisted going to the old antivax standby of doctors shilling for tobacco companies. That's what makes him a skilled propagandist.

Everything old is new yet again, as Brownstone Institute’s Alan Lash recycles old antivax tropes about doctors supposedly being in the thrall of big pharma and therefore untrustworthy.

Tags AIER, Alan Lash, American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, Brownstone Institute, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, quackery, vaccines

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The New Republic on a two decade war against medical quackery

Post author By Orac
Post date March 2, 2023
47 Comments on The New Republic on a two decade war against medical quackery

A story is told in “The New Republic” about a certain entity that readers here might know well, at least longtime regulars.

Tags antivaccine, blog, cancer, Hulda Clark, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, Orac, quackery, social media, vaccines

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Nattokinase: The latest COVID-19 spike protein “detox” quackery

Post author By Orac
Post date February 25, 2023
89 Comments on Nattokinase: The latest COVID-19 spike protein “detox” quackery

The latest big thing among all the hippest COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers is nattokinase, which is claimed to bust clots and “detox” spike protein.

Tags Colleen Huber, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Jen VanDeWater, nattokinase, Paul Alexander, Peter McCullough, quackery, spike protein

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Gov. Ron DeSantis grants antivaxxers their wish, a mini-“Nuremberg 2.0”

Post author By Orac
Post date December 16, 2022
115 Comments on Gov. Ron DeSantis grants antivaxxers their wish, a mini-“Nuremberg 2.0”

Since long before the pandemic,antivaxxers have fantasized about Nuremberg-like tribunals (a “Nuremberg 2.0, if you will) to punish vaccine advocates. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now giving them their wish.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Florida, Florida Department of Health, Joseph Ladapo, Nuremberg 2, Nuremberg Code, Nuremberg Trials, Public Health Integrity Committee, quackery, Ron DeSantis, Statewide Grand Jury, vaccine, vaccines

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