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

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

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

ABIM vs. medical disinformation: A day late and a dollar short or better late than never?

Post author By Orac
Post date June 1, 2022
26 Comments on ABIM vs. medical disinformation: A day late and a dollar short or better late than never?

Last month, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial by the President of ABIM discussing how the board certification can be taken away from diplomates who spread medical misinformation. Is this too little, too late?

Tags ABIM, American Board of Internal Medicine, antivaccine, antivaccine movement, board certification, conspiracy theories, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, disinformation, Federation of State Medical Boards, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, misinformation, No License for Disinformation, Rashid Buttar, Stanislaw Burzynski, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery

Why did the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities elect antivaccine quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 8, 2019
34 Comments on Why did the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities elect antivaccine quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks?

Last month, the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities elected antivax quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks? Why and how could this have happened?

Tags antivaccine, ASIA, Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, pseudoscience, quackery, vaccines, Yehuda Shoenfeld

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Vaccine Guide: A “guide” to cherry picked antivaccine pseudoscience

Post author By Orac
Post date August 26, 2019
31 Comments on Vaccine Guide: A “guide” to cherry picked antivaccine pseudoscience

Sometimes there are weeks where I decided to take care of something that’s been in the old Blog Fodder Folder on my computer and that I’ve been meaning to do a post about. Usually, because many of these are not time-sensitive, they get pushed back in priority whenever something that is time sensitive catches my […]

Tags antivaccine, Ashley Everly, Health Freedom Idaho, toxicology, Vaccine Guide, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery

The Mayor of Algonac responds to a hepatitis A outbreak by promoting antivaccine pseudoscience

Post author By Orac
Post date November 10, 2017
81 Comments on The Mayor of Algonac responds to a hepatitis A outbreak by promoting antivaccine pseudoscience

Southeast Michigan is currently in the midst of a hepatitis A outbreak that started in August 2016. In Algonac, a small town in the Thumb region, the mayor decided to help a restaurant whose business suffered when one of its new staff members under training caught hepatitis A. Unfortunately, the form that help took was to host an antivaccine propaganda meeting.

Tags Algonac, Algonac Flaming Grill, antivaccine, Eileen Tesch, hepatitis A, Michigan, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Tara Nikolao, vaccine

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