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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

The hypervaccinated man who should be dead (according to antivaxxers)

Hypervaccinated HIM
That's a lot of vaccinations!

A man “hypervaccinated” with 217 COVID-19 vaccines has been in the news lately. According to antivaxxers, he should be dead (or in bad shape), but he’s doing fine.

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The antivax bizarro world view of vaccine safety studies

Vaccine safety bizarro world

Antivaxxers have weaponized a huge multinational vaccine safety study of 99 million patient records that found rare adverse events and concluded that the risks of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the benefits. How? A combination of the Nirvana fallacy and spin.

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Antivaccine nonsense

The ultimate antivax conspiracy theory

Conspiracy theories

Toby Rogers takes big pharma conspiracy mongering to the next level, claiming it will cause an intentional economic crisis.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery

Antivax quacks: It’s always (also) about the grifter and grift

FLCCC Alliance quacks and grift
One typical group of antivax grifters doing their thing via Zoom.

When it comes to the behavior of antivax quacks, I like to say: Come for the quackery and ideology, stay for the grift. A Washington Post story this week confirms this characterization.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience

Cureus shockingly does the right thing and retracts an antivax review about COVID-19 vaccines

Cureus retracts
The soon-to-be-retracted Cureus antivax article.

A misinformation-laden review article in Cureus by prominent antivax activists that called for a moratorium on COVID vaccination has been retracted. What took so long, and how could such a paper been published in the peer-reviewed literature in the first place?