"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).

Category: Medicine

Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey

Post author By Orac
Post date January 25, 2023
117 Comments on Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey

Antivaxxers love surveys. This time BMC Infectious Diseases has the dubious “honor” of publishing a truly awful one by an economist named Mark Skidmore that claims that COVID-19 vaccine have killed nearly 300K people.

Tags Biomed Central, BMC, BMC Infectious Diseases, COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, economics, Mark Skidmore, Michigan State University, MSU, Steve Kirsch, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine

Elon Musk amplifies dubious claims of “spasms” and “seizures” after COVID-19 vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date January 24, 2023
353 Comments on Elon Musk amplifies dubious claims of “spasms” and “seizures” after COVID-19 vaccines

Thanks to Elon Musk, two-year-old videos showing people claiming to have “seizures” and “spasms” due to #CovidVaccines have resurfaced and gone viral. Antivaxxers are partying like it’s 2009—or 2021.

Tags anecdotes, Angelia Desselle, Brent Griner, COVID, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, Desiree Jennings, dystonia, Elon Musk, misinformation, seizure, Shawn Skelton, spasms, Twitter

Announcements Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Movies

Sign up for a virtual screening of “Virulent: The Vaccine War”

Post author By Orac
Post date January 21, 2023
17 Comments on Sign up for a virtual screening of “Virulent: The Vaccine War”

Science-Based Medicine is hosting a virtual screening of Virulent: The Vaccine War. Get your virtual ticket to stream it and be part of the Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Drs. Gorski and Novella on Jan. 29?