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Steve Kirsch goes off the deep end over the Moderna vaccine

Misinformation superspreaderr Kirsch challenging scientific consensus
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become as he "challenges" the scientific consensus.

Steve Kirsch got his hands on COVID-19 vaccination data from the Czech Republic, and bad data analysis ensues. This time, he’s falsely claiming that Moderna vaccines are deadlier than Pfizer vaccines, but that both are deadly.

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Rasmussen Reports eagerly plumbs Steve Kirsch-levels of antivax stupid

Rasmussen Reports
The logo of a disinformation merchant.

Rasmussen Reports is, ostensibly, a polling organization. Why does its most recent poll look like something an antivaxxer like Steve Kirsch dreamed up? Because it’s not legit. It’s propaganda.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Antivax tech bro Steve Kirsch “reinvents” challenging a scientific consensus

Misinformation superspreaderr Kirsch challenging scientific consensus
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become as he "challenges" the scientific consensus.

Tech bro turned antivax propagandist Steve Kirsch reinvents how to challenge a scientific consensus, basically offering $1 million to reinvent the wheel.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Steve Kirsch: Vaccines cause The Trans and The Gay!

Misinformation superspreaderr Kirsch challenging scientific consensus
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become as he "challenges" the scientific consensus.

Just when I thought Steve Kirsch couldn’t get any more ridiculous, he does another online survey linking vaccines to The Gay and The Trans, this one even more risibly incompetent than his usual.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Fun with Excel, or: Steve Kirsch is an antivax fool

Kirsch's pivot
This is what Steve Kirsch considers a great analysis. It's not.

Once again, Steve Kirsch has incompetently “analyzed” an Excel spreadsheet containing epidemiological data to claim that COVID-19 vaccines increase the chances of getting COVID. He desperately needs to take an Epidemiology 101 course.