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COVID-19 vaccine “skeptics” are just antivax now

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Dr. Pierre Kory and the pseudonymous Substacker known as A Midwestern Doctor provide two more examples of how “anti-COVID” antivax has now become just antivax.

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Quack tycoon Joe Mercola abandons an old antivax friend

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Antivax Grande Dame Barbara Loe Fisher is lamenting how without warning her old friend, quack tycoon Joe Mercola, cut off his regular financial support of her antivax org. What’s going on here?

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A blast from the past: Jake Crosby retracts his antivax criticism of an MMR study

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One quirk of having blogged so long is that sometimes cranks you’ve blogged about reappear after a long disappearance. So it was when antivax wunderkind Jake Crosby retracted a bogus critique of a study that failed to find a link between MMR vaccines and autism.

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Antivax tech bro Steve Kirsch “reinvents” challenging a scientific consensus

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Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become as he "challenges" the scientific consensus.

Tech bro turned antivax propagandist Steve Kirsch reinvents how to challenge a scientific consensus, basically offering $1 million to reinvent the wheel.

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

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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?