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Anti-Semitism Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

So it’s guilt by association again, is it?

Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

William “turbo cancer” Makis has found some trivia about the ancient history of my old stomping grounds ScienceBlogs and is using it to deceptively associate me with Jeffery Epstein. Oh, hell no!

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Science

Forget the antivax lie of “turbo cancer.” Does COVID-19 cause cancer?

A cancer cell
A cancer cell.

The Washington Post recently published an article asking if COVID-19 infection can cause cancer. Probably not, but cancer caused by a virus is more more plausible than “turbo cancer” caused by the vaccine.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Rasmussen Reports eagerly plumbs Steve Kirsch-levels of antivax stupid

Rasmussen Reports
The logo of a disinformation merchant.

Rasmussen Reports is, ostensibly, a polling organization. Why does its most recent poll look like something an antivaxxer like Steve Kirsch dreamed up? Because it’s not legit. It’s propaganda.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science

COVID-19 vaccine “skeptics” are just antivax now

antivaccine

Dr. Pierre Kory and the pseudonymous Substacker known as A Midwestern Doctor provide two more examples of how “anti-COVID” antivax has now become just antivax.

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Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

The New York Times goes all in on “lab leak”

Wuhan Institute of Virology: Is this where the "lab leak" came from? Highly unlikely.

Earlier this week, the New York Times op-ed page ran an article by Alina Chan, Queen of lab leak conspiracy theories. How is it wrong? Let me count the ways…