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Malevolence and intent: Two defining characteristics of conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories

Malevolence is a key characteristic of any conspiracy theory, as antivax conspiracy theories readily indicate. Why is this?

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“Died Suddenly”: Resurrecting the old antivax lie of depopulation

Died Suddenly
The claim that vaccines cause previously healthy young people to "die suddenly" is not new. Stew Peters has resurrected this conspiracy theory and applied it to COVID-19 vaccines.

Everything old is new again when it comes to antivax tropes. Died Suddenly resurrects the old antivax conspiracy that vaccines kill, the plan being to cause “depopulation” that would allow “global elites” to control the world.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Mikki Willis has expanded from Plandemic to ivermectin conspiracy theories

Mikki Willis
Mikki Willis, looking so very, very serious.

Mikki Willis of “Plandemic” fame is back, and this time he’s flogging conspiracy theories about ivermectin as a “suppressed” cure for COVID-19.

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Anti-Semitism Antivaccine nonsense Holocaust Holocaust denial Medicine Politics Popular culture Pseudoscience

Anne Frank: RFK Jr. now versus RFK Jr. in 2015

Anne Frank: NOT an antivaccine icon
Contrary to what RFK Jr. insinuated, Anne Frank didn't have it better than antivaxxers do now.

At the Defeat the Mandates rally on Sunday, RFK Jr. invoked Anne Frank in an antivaccine speech. Then he apologized. Shorter RFK Jr.: “Oops, I did it again!” Why is anyone surprised? This has always been RFK Jr.’s MO.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Biology Medicine Science

No, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines do NOT “hack the software of life”

Hack DNA

Antivaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists were always going to spin conspiracies about COVID-19 vaccines. Unfortunately, some scientists have made it so much easier for them by having likened mRNA vaccines to “hacking the software of life” and being unclear on what gene therapy is.