"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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Same as it ever was: Antivaxxers target Orthodox Jews with COVID-19 misinformation

Post author By Orac
Post date November 8, 2021
58 Comments on Same as it ever was: Antivaxxers target Orthodox Jews with COVID-19 misinformation

COVID-19 misinformation targeted at Orthodox Jews — This should be retitled “Top Ten Lies About COVID-19 Vaccines.”

About a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, large measles outbreaks among Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Rockland County were linked to misinformation targeted to their communities by antivaxxers. History is repeating itself with COVID-19.

Tags Brooklyn, COVID, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID variants, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, Orthodox Jew, Orthodox Jews, Robert Malone

Anti-Semitism Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Religion

Richard Dawkins’ painfully simplistic take on measles among Orthodox Jews: “Religion poisons everything.”

Post author By Orac
Post date May 16, 2019
44 Comments on Richard Dawkins’ painfully simplistic take on measles among Orthodox Jews: “Religion poisons everything.”

Richard Dawkins saw the measles outbreaks among the Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn and Rockland County, and Tweeted, “Religion poisons everything.” Unfortunately for him, it’s way more complicated than that.

Tags Brooklyn, Hillel Handler, Judaism, Larry Palevsky, Orthodox Jews, religion, Richard Dawkins, Rockland County

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