"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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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Steve “Debate me, bro” Kirsch is at it again with SIDS and The Great Autism Debate

Post author By Orac
Post date September 30, 2023
3 Comments on Steve “Debate me, bro” Kirsch is at it again with SIDS and The Great Autism Debate

Steve Kirsch, bully, collaborate — Steve Kirsch, spreading disinformation.

Tech bro turned COVID-19 conspiracy theorist and antivaxxer is back spreading more misinformation about vaccines and SIDS.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, detective, Helen Grus, Jennifer, Neil Miller, police, police officer, sids, Steve Kirsch, sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexpected infant death, SUIDS, vaccine, vaccines

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Vaccines and SIDS: Steve Kirsch amps up the stupid

Post author By Orac
Post date August 18, 2023
28 Comments on Vaccines and SIDS: Steve Kirsch amps up the stupid

Antivaxxers have long claimed that childhood vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Now “new school” antivaxxer Steve Kirsch has resurrected this hoary old lie using the thinnest of evidence plus a lot of handwaving.

Tags antivaccine, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, sids, Steve Kirsch, sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexpected infant death, SUID, vaccine, vaccines

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SIDS, SADS, death and destruction: Antivaxxers resurrect an old lie to bolster a new lie

Post author By Orac
Post date June 15, 2022
77 Comments on SIDS, SADS, death and destruction: Antivaxxers resurrect an old lie to bolster a new lie

Victorian mourning infant baby and SIDS — Victorian infant mourning doll. Yes, before vaccines, this was a thing. So was SIDS, but antivaxxers are trying to claim otherwise. (Source.)

With antivaxxers blaming sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) on COVID-19 vaccines, of course, they’re citing SIDS now as being caused by MMR.

Tags Age of Autism, antivaccine, DPT, Gary Goldman, measles, MMR, mumps, Neil Miller, rubella, SADS, sids, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, Vaccine Court, vaccines, William Gaunt

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SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome): It’s always about the vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date June 10, 2022
26 Comments on SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome): It’s always about the vaccines

Antivaxxers are falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines have been causing an epidemic of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS, also a misnomer for Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome), because of course they are, and of course to them it’s all a “coverup.”

Tags antivaccine, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Mike Adams, mRNA, SADS, sids, spike protein, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, vaccines

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Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Post author By Orac
Post date December 31, 2020
148 Comments on Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Reports of Bell’s palsy and syncopy after vaccination with RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines remind us how antivaxxers will weaponize anything bad happening after vaccination. Sadly, I predict an impending tsunami of confusing correlation with causation.

Tags Bell's palsy, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, death, hpv, HPV vaccine, pandemic, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, SARS-CoV-2, sids, sudden infant death syndrome

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