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Thacker parrots an old antivax trope: “Vaccines are magic!”

Paul Thacker's view of vaccines
Paul Thacker thinks vaccine advocates consider vaccines magic and religion that none dare criticize.

Paul Thacker proclaims, “Vaccines are magic!” and likens them to religion that you can’t criticize. This is an old antivax narrative that he’s now parroting.

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What do licensing naturopaths and banning abortion have in common?

SCOTUS and abortion
The six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court have just pulled off the ultimate exercise of judicial alchemy that is a direct assault on science-based medicine in reproductive health care.

The Supreme Court’s striking down Roe v. Wade and the subsequent abortion bans it enabled remind me very much of naturopathic licensure laws. They’re both based on pseudoscience and ideology.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science History Medicine Religion

Religion, magic, and slavery: Rhetoric about masks and vaccines

Masks are apparently magical!

If one wants to see how much alike antimaskers and antivaxxers are, just look at their rhetoric about vaccines and masks as religion, slavery, and magic.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Religion

Same as it ever was: Antivaxxers target Orthodox Jews with COVID-19 misinformation

COVID-19 misinformation targeted at Orthodox Jews
This should be retitled “Top Ten Lies About COVID-19 Vaccines.”

About a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, large measles outbreaks among Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Rockland County were linked to misinformation targeted to their communities by antivaxxers. History is repeating itself with COVID-19.

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Antivaccine nonsense Religion

“Fetal cells” in COVID-19 vaccines…again

Antivax take on PER.C6 cells
Antivaxxers are at it again, trying to weaponize abortion and "fetal cells" against COVID-19 vaccines.

In the age of COVID, everything old is new again in antivax conspiracy world. This time around, antivaxxers are trying to claim (yet again) that COVID vaccines contain “fetal cells.” Once more into the breach.