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RFK Jr. has a brainworm? This explains an awful lot

brainworm
Who would have ever thought that Pink Floyd would come in so handy for a post like this?

A New York Times article reports that in his divorce proceedings a decade ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argued that hais earning potential had decreased because he had had a brainworm. This explains an awful lot.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Steve Kirsch: Vaccines cause The Trans and The Gay!

Misinformation superspreaderr Kirsch
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become.

Just when I thought Steve Kirsch couldn’t get any more ridiculous, he does another online survey linking vaccines to The Gay and The Trans, this one even more risibly incompetent than his usual.

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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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Vaccines cause autism, which leads to progressivism and…Trumpism?

Toby Rogers
Toby Rogers is an economist. He thinks he knows autism, vaccines, progressivism, and epidemiology, "thinks" being the operative word.

Antivax transphobe Toby Rogers got the bright idea that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits. So vaccines cause progressivism…and Trumpism, too? WTF?

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Geoff Pain vs. The Wellness Company and RFK Jr.: I do so love a good crank fight!

Let Them Fight
This is what Orac always says about crank fights, although in this case it's less other kaiju vs. Godzilla and more Bambi vs. Godzilla.

Crank fight! Dr. Geoff Pain attacks RFK Jr.’s antivax org Children’s Health Defense for being in the pocket of big pharma. Hilarity ensues.