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Announcements Cancer Quackery

Some blog housekeeping and a bit of shameless self-promotion

Orac takes this opportunity to explain his absence and do a little blog housekeeping, followed by some shameless self-promotion.

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics Popular culture

Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s antivax assault on public health: Will it infect the federal government?

Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s Florida Department of Health recently released guidance on COVID vaccines based on antivax tropes. Could they metastasize to the federal government if Donald Trump wins in November?

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics Quackery

“MAHA”? Antivax conspiracy monger RFK Jr. is not the one to “make America healthy again”

Shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he and Trump will “make America healthy again.” His proposals to do that range from semi-reasonable to outright quackery.

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

Myrna Mantaring and the bogus claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 1,432.33% increase in cancer

Myrna Mattaring, a retired scientist who worked in diagnostic labs, claims that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 1432% increase in cancer cases, a clearly impossible claim. Here I make a plea for examining such claims, including a much more famous and accepted one, with basic math.

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Cancer Popular culture Surgery

Not exactly “sensible medicine” for Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer

Adam Cifu and Vinay Prasad at Sensible Medicine defend Elle Macpherson’s decision not to undergo chemotherpay for her breast cancer. Too bad they shortchange the quackery in doing so.