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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.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

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.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Movies

Shot Dead: A particularly disgusting piece of antivax propaganda

Shot Dead
Antivaxxers are nothing if not predictable in the graphics they choose.

Here we go again with a new antivax propaganda film. Shot Dead is even more vile than pre-pandemic antivax films, full of antivax propaganda and exploitation of dead children.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Yet more evidence that “died suddenly” is not a real thing

"Died suddenly" vs. reality.
Incidence of sudden cardiac death among collegiate athletes, 2002-2022. Guess what? The incidence is trending downward; it hasn't ballooned since the pandemic.

A new study has failed to find any increase in sudden cardiac deaths among college athletes, more evidence that “Died suddenly” (due to COVID-19 vaccines) is not a thing.