"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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How antivaxxers “think” (that vaccine advocates think)

Post author By Orac
Post date April 14, 2023
42 Comments on How antivaxxers “think” (that vaccine advocates think)

Having come across an example of how antivaxxers think that vaccine advocates think from Alex Berenson and Madhava Setty, I had one thought myself: Project much?

Tags Alex Berenson, antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Elizabeth Mumper, Gregory Poland, homeopathy, quackery, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccine, vaccines, World Vaccine Congress

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery

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

Post author By Orac
Post date March 27, 2023
57 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

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

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.