"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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False analogies and pseudoscience as “moral arguments” against the use of fetal cell lines to manufacture vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date October 11, 2019
23 Comments on False analogies and pseudoscience as “moral arguments” against the use of fetal cell lines to manufacture vaccines

Using fetal cells to grow virus for vaccines

Antivaxers frequently object to the use of fetal cell lines to manufacture vaccines on “moral” grounds. Über-quack Joe Mercola lays down some astonishingly bad moral arguments based on pseudoscience.

Tags aborted fetal cells, aborted fetal tissue, antivaccine, bioethics, embryo, fetal cell lines, fetal DNA, fetus, Joe Mercola, Maurice Hilleman, MRC-5, polio, quackery, SV40, Theresa Deisher, vaccines, WI-38

Antivaccine nonsense Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

How “aborted fetal cells” contributed to vaccines preventing billions of cases of disease and many million deaths

Post author By Orac
Post date March 7, 2017
336 Comments on How “aborted fetal cells” contributed to vaccines preventing billions of cases of disease and many million deaths

Antiabortion antivaccine activists like to claim that “aborted fetal cells” in vaccines mean that vaccines are contaminated products of evil. In reality, there are no “aborted fetal cells” in vaccines. A cell line derived from an aborted fetus in 1962 did, however, lead to huge advances in vaccine technology and the prevention of many millions of deaths worldwide.

Tags aborted fetal cells, aborted fetal tissue, abortion, antivaccine, Leonard Hayflick, monkey kidney cells, polio, Roman Catholic Church, SV40, vaccines, WI-38

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

A zombie meme rises from the grave: Maurice Hilleman, the polio vaccine, SV40, and cancer

Post author By Orac
Post date September 11, 2013
47 Comments on A zombie meme rises from the grave: Maurice Hilleman, the polio vaccine, SV40, and cancer

Did you know that vaccine pioneer Maurice Hilleman admitted that contaminating SV40 virus in early batches of oral polio causes cancer? That’s because he didn’t, although antivaxers keep claiming that he did and that SV40 from early batches of polio vaccine cause cancer. It almost certainly doesn’t.

Tags AIDS, cancer, Maurice Hilleman, polio, SV40, vaccine

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