Viewpoint: ‘God is an antivaxxer’—Don’t let the MAHA movement’s claims of being evidence-based fool you. It’s now full-on anti-vax

Viewpoint: ‘God is an antivaxxer’—Don’t let the MAHA movement’s claims of being evidence-based fool you. It’s now full-on anti-vax

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to say that he is not anti-vaccine, he is “pro-safety.” But when 1,000 ...
Viewpoint: Here’s a backgrounder on the anti-vaccine quack RFK, Jr. has drafted to prove vaccines cause autism

Viewpoint: Here’s a backgrounder on the anti-vaccine quack RFK, Jr. has drafted to prove vaccines cause autism

The longer President Donald Trump and his lackeys, particularly his Secretary of Health and Human Services, longtime antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., ...
Viewpoint: ‘The central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits’ — Anti-vaxxer Toby Rogers’ latest trope links vaccines to progressive political views and Trumpism

Viewpoint: ‘The central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits’ — Anti-vaxxer Toby Rogers’ latest trope links vaccines to progressive political views and Trumpism

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Antivax transphobe Toby Rogers got the bright idea that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits ...
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Latest conspiracy theory claims that COVID is ‘bacterial pneumonia’: Here’s how this antivax delusion gained a foothold

David Gorski | Respectful Insolence |
To antivaccine conspiracy theorists, it is always of the utmost importance to find a way to explain deaths from the ...
Viewpoint: Are anti-vax COVID physicians being ‘persecuted’ by medical regulatory boards?

Viewpoint: Are anti-vax COVID physicians being ‘persecuted’ by medical regulatory boards?

David Gorski | Respectful Insolence |
Two COVID-19 antivax quacks, Drs. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory, announced that the ABIM had informed them that their board ...
Viewpoint: Here’s what happens when conspiracy mongers ‘try to rebrand themselves as “rational theorists”’

Viewpoint: Here’s what happens when conspiracy mongers try to rebrand themselves as “rational theorists”

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Conspiracy theorists hate being called conspiracy theorists. After they try to rebrand themselves as “rational theorists,” hilarity ensues ...
The COVID myth that refuses to die — No, none of the coronavirus vaccines alters your brain DNA

The COVID myth that refuses to die — No, none of the coronavirus vaccines alters your brain DNA

As repetitive as I have been with respect to this, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes ...
Viewpoint: How Republicans have come to replace Democrats as the face of the anti-vaccine movement

Viewpoint: How Republicans have come to replace Democrats as the face of the anti-vaccine movement

David Gorski | Respectful Insolence |
There was a time not so long ago (perhaps a decade, but certainly no longer than 20 years ago), when ...