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No License for Disinformation: Why are doctors so threatened?

Post author By Orac
Post date January 24, 2022
66 Comments on No License for Disinformation: Why are doctors so threatened?

It’s not “cancel culture” to take away the medical licenses of physicians promoting dangerous COVID-19 disinformation. It’s quality control. Why do so many doctors seem to think otherwise and react as though the concept threatens them?

Tags COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, disinformation, license, medical board, medical license, Meryl Nass, misinformation, No License for Disinformation

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Steve Kirsch: From anti-COVID vaccine to irredeemably bonkers antivax

Post author By Orac
Post date June 12, 2023
123 Comments on Steve Kirsch: From anti-COVID vaccine to irredeemably bonkers antivax

Tech bro turned COVID-19 misinformation superspreader and antivaxxer Steve Kirsch has now fully embraced “old school” vaccine-autism conspiracy theories, demonstrating how anti-COVID-19 vaccine antivaxxers frequently become just antivaxxers.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, misinformation, quackery, Steve Kirsch, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

Antivaxxer Steve Kirsch threatens to release private health information

Post author By Orac
Post date December 20, 2023
36 Comments on Antivaxxer Steve Kirsch threatens to release private health information

Tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch emailed the director of Te Whatu Ora a threat to release names from a stolen New Zealand Ministry of Health database. It did not go well