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The New Republic on a two decade war against medical quackery

War against quackery

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

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Brownstone flack Gabrielle Bauer admits that the Great Barrington Declaration was wrong

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Gabrielle Bauer of the Brownstone Institute tacitly admits that the central premise of the Great Barrington Declaration was badly wrong, but brushes it off a just “details.”

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Antivax lies about vaccines and infant mortality, 12 years later

Infant mortality.
This is what we call some seriously bad science. Read on to find out why!

Since COVID-19, in the antivax world everything old is new again. That’s right, Gary S. Goldman and Neil Z. Miller are back to defend their 2011 infant mortality “study” and RFK Jr. is flogging it as slam-dunk “evidence” that vaccines kill babies.

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COVID-19 is now a leading killer of children

Contrary to what the “COVID-19 isn’t a threat to children” contingent says, COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among children. Yet “not antivax” doctors continue, either unknowingly or knowingly, continue to recycle old antivax tropes to argue against vaccinating children against this disease.

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“Virulent: The Vaccine War” Q&A with Dr. Novella and a familiar face

Virulent Q&A

Director/editor/producer Tjardus Greidanus, whose documentary Virulent: The Vaccine War examines the rise of the antivaccine movement before and after the pandemic, joined Dr. Novella and a certain other person for a virtual Q&A.