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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience

Thacker the hack keeps Thacking and hacking

Paul Thacker

hack: adj.: 1. Working for hire especially with mediocre professional standards (a hack journalist); 2. performed by or suited to a person who works or writes purely for the purpose of earning money; 3. characteristic of a hack 4. MEDIOCRE (e.g.) hack writing, hackneyed, trite.

Thack: adj: All of the above, but in the style of Paul Thacker. Verb (transitive): To write hack hit pieces in the style of Paul Thacker.

I know I’ve written about Paul Thacker’s attacks on young physician Dr. Allison Neitzel three times now, but he just keeps going lower and demanding more not-so-Respectful Insolence. Orac is happy to oblige.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

The Brownstone Institute embraces old antivax lies about measles

Brownstone Institute Measles Mongers
What an...interesting...image chosen for this article. Nope, nothing threatening about this at all. Just an ominously backlit militant holding a military rifle with something burning in the background!

The Brownstone Institute long ago went full anti-COVID-19 vaccination. Now it’s embracing old antivax tropes about the measles vaccine. This was inevitable.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

“Poor, poor pitiful me”: Was Martin Kulldorff fired by Harvard?

Kulldorff and Tucker's guillotine

Martin Kulldorff, co-author of the eugenicist Great Barrington Declaration that advocated a “let ‘er rip” strategy to address the pandemic to achieve “natural herd immunity,” laments being “fired” from Harvard. Is it possible to know what really happened? Orac provides educated speculation. (NOTE ADDENDUM.)

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

Come on, Jeffrey Tucker and Great Barrington Declaration, just admit you were wrong

Admit you were wrong?
Why does this post feature an image of Taylor Swift? Simple. The article by Peggy Noonan that so triggered Jeffrey Tucker was about, of all things, how great Taylor Swift is and how she should be TIME's Person of the Year.

In response to an article praising Taylor Swift, Jeffrey Tucker demands that Peggy Noonan “admit she was wrong” about COVID-19. Hilarity ensues.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

What is “medical freedom”? Not what “health freedom” advocates claim

Medical freedom
"Medical freedom." You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means. Certainly it doesn't mean what Dr. Clayton Baker thinks it means.

Dr. Clayton Baker at the Brownstone Institute attempts to define “medical freedom” by deceptively wrapping it in what on first glance would seem to be unobjectionable principles.