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Antivaccine nonsense Quackery

Antivaxxers launch a frontal assault on the Killer Rabbit of plasmids

Killer Rabbit of Plasmids
Antivaxxers trying to attack the Killer Rabbit of Plasmids and experiencing the same result that King Arthur and his men did attacking the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Ever since recombinant DNA has been used to develop and manufacture vaccines, antivaxxers have portrayed it as evil. This weekend, an antivaxxer decided that fear mongering about SV40 in COVID-19 vaccines wasn’t enough. Here we go again…

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Cancer Medicine

Antivax cancer quacks go “orthomolecular”

Orthomolecular cancer quackery1

Antivaxxers have gone full cancer quack. This time, they’re peddling “orthomolecular medicine” nonsense in the form of a bad study. Same as it ever was.

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Cancer Medicine Quackery

FLCCC co-founder Paul Marik has gone full cancer quack

Paul Marik, quack
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FLCCC co-founder Dr. Paul Marik has gone full cancer quack, deceptively disparaging chemotherapy to promote his grift of “repurposed drugs.” Everything old is new again.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Midazolam as “euthanasia” for COVID, or the most brain-dead paper I’ve ever read?

Billy Madison midazolam
You are about to read about something for which this little clip is perfectly appropriate.

A recent paper, amplified by antivax bloggers and John Campbell, claims that midazolam killed many COVID-19 patients in the UK as a result of “euthanasia.” My brain hurts from reading such stupidity.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science

Prions. Why did it have to be prions?

Prions again!
Prions. Why did it have to be prions?

Prions. Why did it have to be prions? (Again.) The antivax trope that vaccines cause prion disease is an old one, and antivaxxers are trying desperately to resurrect it to apply to COVID-19 vaccines.