"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: Politics

Quoth antivaxxers: “Big pharma got Tucker Carlson!”

Post author By Orac
Post date April 28, 2023
108 Comments on Quoth antivaxxers: “Big pharma got Tucker Carlson!”

Tucker Carlson was fired on Monday. Antivaxxers are blaming big pharma because he had aired a segment attacking Pfizer and its COVID-19 vaccine.

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Dr. Joseph Ladapo: Busted lying with statistics about COVID-19 vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date April 26, 2023
300 Comments on Dr. Joseph Ladapo: Busted lying with statistics about COVID-19 vaccines

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General — To paraphrase Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo elsewhere: "Don't worry. Just eat right, lose weight, exercise, and get vaccinated (but ONLY if you want to). Everything will be alright." Also: vaccines are killing young men. Also: "I changed the study."

Surprise! Surprise! Politico has busted Dr. Joseph Ladapo for having altered a Florida Department of Health study to lie with statistics and make COVID-19 vaccines look more dangerous than COVID-19 for men under 40.

Tags antivaccine, clinical trials, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, epidemiology, Florida Department of Health, Joseph Ladapo, quackery, Ron DeSantis, statistics, Tracy Høeg, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Lying with statistics in Florida, COVID-19 vaccine edition

Post author By Orac
Post date April 12, 2023
70 Comments on Lying with statistics in Florida, COVID-19 vaccine edition

Remember that Florida Department of Health study that suggested that COVID-19 vaccines were more dangerous to young men than COVID? Surprise! It turns out that important results were left out, all to lie with statistics and make the vaccines look worse.