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

Post author By Orac
Post date December 3, 2023
77 Comments on Come on, Jeffrey Tucker and Great Barrington Declaration, just admit you were wrong

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

Tags admit, American Institute for Economic Research, Brownstone Institute, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, Jeffrey Tucker, natural herd immunity, pandemic, Peggy Noonan, postinfection immunity, SARS-CoV-2, Taylor Swift

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

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

Post author By Orac
Post date November 22, 2023
32 Comments on What is “medical freedom”? Not what “health freedom” advocates claim

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.

Tags antivaccine, Belmont Report, Brownstone Institute, Clayton Baker, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, health freedom, medical freedom, natural herd immunity, quackery, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

How “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic destroyed public health

Post author By Orac
Post date November 20, 2023
45 Comments on How “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic destroyed public health

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya — Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

Jeffrey Tucker recently bragged that “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic like his Great Barrington Declaration had “changed everything.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t wrong and worse, these changes were not a good thing.