Category: Antivaccine nonsense

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Physicians who promote COVID-19 and antivaccine misinformation should lose their medical license

Medical license

The Federation of State Medical Boards warned physicians that spreading COVID-19 misinformation might jeopardize their license to practice. It’s about time the FSMB said that, but I have serious doubts that anything will happen.

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics

Antivaxxers invoke segregation and Jim Crow to attack COVID-19 vaccination requirements

Vaccine passports are not segregation like this
Contrary to what antivaxxers claim, COVID-19 vaccine requirements are not the equivalent of this.

Before the pandemic, antivaxxers tried to don the mantle of the “new civil rights movement.” Now they’re invoking segregation and Jim Crow over COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

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Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine

Antivax quack tycoon Joe Mercola profits selling COVID-19 disinformation

Dr. Joseph Mercola
"Trust me."

Joe Mercola is a physician whose nearly quarter-century of promoting quackery and antivaccine misinformation has garnered him a net worth north of $100 million. It is therefore not surprising that in the age of the pandemic, he has pivoted to fatten his bottom line promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the COVID vaccines.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Holocaust Holocaust denial Medicine Quackery

Has the law finally caught up with autism bleach quack Kerri Rivera?

Miracle Mineral Solution, a.k.a. bleach, advocated by Kerri Rivera
Miracle Mineral Solution

Antivax quack Kerri Rivera has long treated autistic children with bleach, including by enema. Has the law finally caught up with her for her abuse of autistic children?

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

James Lyons-Weiler whines about his “vaxxed/unvaxxed” study retraction

James Lyons-Weiler and IPAK, transphobe, antivaxxer
James Lyons-Weiler

James Lyons-Weiler published a “vaxxed/unvaxxed” study with antivax pediatrician Paul Thomas. The paper was recently retracted, and his whining about it is epic.