"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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“The midwit effect”? Antivaxxers are irritated by a study on intelligence and vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date October 7, 2023
48 Comments on “The midwit effect”? Antivaxxers are irritated by a study on intelligence and vaccines

A study was published linking vaccine acceptance to intelligence. Whatever the validity of the study, it irritated an antivaxxer, who called it the “midwit” effect.

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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman win the Nobel Prize, and antivaxxers lose it

Post author By Orac
Post date October 4, 2023
88 Comments on Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman win the Nobel Prize, and antivaxxers lose it

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work with pseudouridine, which allowed the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Antivaxxers are losing their minds over it, and I’m here for it.

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Powerful people like Rep. Jim Jordan are promoting health misinformation

Post author By Orac
Post date October 2, 2023
35 Comments on Powerful people like Rep. Jim Jordan are promoting health misinformation

Jim Jordan, defending misinformation and disinformation — Jim Jordan, carrying water for misinformation agents.

Misinformation and conspiracy theories about health had long been a growing problem before the pandemic, but it took COVID-19 to get the government and researchers to take it seriously. Now, a new report in The Washington Post adds to previous reporting from multiple sources describing how allies of misinformation—and not just health misinformation—are striking back under the guise of defending “free speech.”