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John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Kim Kardashian
It's time for the Kardahsian index and John Ioannidis, round two.

John Ioannidis’ “science Kardashian” article is the bad science that keeps demonstrating why we should have no superheroes in science. Ideology can warp any of us.

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The Guardian: “Explaining” vaccine hesitancy by amplifying antivax disinformation

Why does The Guardian publish nonsense like this by Musa al-Gharbi?
Why does The Guardian publish nonsense like this by Musa al-Gharbi?

Writing in The Guardian, Musa al-Gharbi tries to explain vaccine hesitancy to “the left.” Unfortunately, he parrots antivax conspiracy theories to do it.

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Brownstone Institute embraces its inner antivaxxer

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

The Brownstone Institute, a spinoff of AIER and the “spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration,” is now embracing its inner antivaxxer by likening vaccine mandates to “othering,” including slavery and Nazi persecution of Jews during the Holocaust.

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The Great Barrington Declaration strikes back

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

A month after a BMJ article linking the Great Barrington Declaration to the right wing think tank AIER, the two are attacking the authors of the BMJ piece and denying any payment or even connection. Why?

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Gov. Ron DeSantis further embraces the Great Barrington Declaration by appointing Dr. Joseph Ladapo as Florida Surgeon General

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
To paraphrase Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo elsewhere: "Don't worry. Just eat right, lose weight, exercise, and get vaccinated (but ONLY if you want to). Everything will be alright." Also: vaccines are killing young men. Also: "I changed the study."

Yesterday, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Dr. Joseph Ladapo, an apostle of the Great Barrington Declaration’s eugenics lite “focused protection” approach to COVID-19, as Florida Surgeon General. If you want to see the harm caused by the GBD and crank “COVID contrarian” physicians, look no further.