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Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Hack conspiracy journalism: Paul Thacker vs. the definition of “physician”

Paul Thacker at work
Paul Thacker at work writing another entry for his Substack.

I normally don’t publish email exchanges, but when someone like Paul Thacker misleadingly characterizes an email exchange with me, let’s just say that I will make an exception in his case.

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Antivaccine nonsense Clinical trials Religion

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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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience

SIDS, SADS, death and destruction: Antivaxxers resurrect an old lie to bolster a new lie

Victorian mourning infant baby and SIDS
Victorian infant mourning doll. Yes, before vaccines, this was a thing. So was SIDS, but antivaxxers are trying to claim otherwise. (Source.)

With antivaxxers blaming sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) on COVID-19 vaccines, of course, they’re citing SIDS now as being caused by MMR.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Pseudoscience Quackery

Richard Moskowitz goes full COVID-19 conspiracy theorist for Age of Autism

Dr. Richard Moskowitz
There's nothing like being photographed in front of large shelves full of old textbooks and journals to make you look smart and academic.

Dr. Richard Moskowitz has been a quack MD and homeopath since the 1970s. It is thus unsurprising that he has now pivoted to COVID-19 conspiracy theories and disinformation.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Are any of the COVID-19 vaccines self-spreading, self-propagating, transmissible vaccines?

Self-spreading vaccines
How self-spreading vaccines work in an animal population.

The short answer to the question in the title of this post is no. The long answer is that antivaxxers are now taking the trope of “shedding” to the new extreme of “self-spreading, self-propagating transmissible vaccines” and applying it to COVID-19 vaccines.