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Jeffrey Tucker: The antivaccine movement and the far right

Jeffrey Tucker
Jeffrey Tucker (credit: Greg Skidmore via Wikipedia/Creative Commons)

Jeffery Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute, is a far right wing Neo-Confederate hack. What does this say about the confluence of the far right and antivax?

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Computers and social media Medicine Politics Popular culture Science Skepticism/critical thinking

John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad team up to lecture social media about “obsessive criticism”

Irony meter meets obsessive criticism. John Ioannidis
Orac never thought he'd ever be using an irony meter meme in a discussion of something that Prof. Ioannidis has written, but here we are.

Formerly respectable academics John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad published a complaint about “obsessive criticism” on social media. Hilarity ensued, and many irony meters were reduced to sparking, smoking, sputtering ruin.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery

AAPS joins the legal thuggery against medical standards

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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons: A medical John Birch Society.

The crank fake medical professional society Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit this week against medical specialty boards seeking to rein in COVID-19 misinformation. Coupled with previous suits, I can’t help but see this legal thuggery as increasingly coordinated with prior lawsuits by right wing groups.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Richard Jaffe brings the antivax legal assault on state medical boards to California

Dr. Douglas Mackenzie, represented by Richard Jaffe
"Whatchoo talkin' about, Willis?" Yes, before his lawsuit, Dr. Mackenzie appeared in VAXXED videos.

Cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski’s former lawyer Richard Jaffe is suing the Medical Board of California for disciplining Dr. Douglas Mackenzie for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. The antivax assault on state medical boards with legal thuggery continues apace.

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Paul Thomas and the antivax legal assault on state medical boards

Dr. Paul Thomas vaxxed vs unvaxxed
Dr. Paul Thomas

The Oregon Medical Board restricted and disciplined antivax pediatrician Paul Thomas. He’s striking back with a $35 million frivolous lawsuit. Is this the wave of the future as state medical boards try to protect the public from antivax doctors?