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Mikki Willis has expanded from Plandemic to ivermectin conspiracy theories

Mikki Willis
Mikki Willis, looking so very, very serious.

Mikki Willis of “Plandemic” fame is back, and this time he’s flogging conspiracy theories about ivermectin as a “suppressed” cure for COVID-19.

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Self-assembling nanostructures? COVID-19 vaccine “blood clots” revisited.

Graphene or self-assembling nanostructures?
No, this isn't, as claimed, graphene in the blood of the vaccinated.

Antivaxxers can’t stop misidentifying blood clots as “self-assembling nanostructures” from COVID-19 vaccines, with often hilarious results.

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Overconfidence as a contributor to science denial among physicians and scientists

Overconfidence Figure 2

The pandemic has brought scientists who have rejected science with respect to COVID-19 public health measures a disturbing level of influence. Recent research suggests reasons why and who among the public susceptible to such misinformation remains persuadable.

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Zebrafish and Jessica Rose versus vaccines?

Zebrafish
What are antivaxxers doing with zebrafish these days?

Orac had thought he’d seen everything from antivaxxers; that is, until he saw Jessica Rose invoke a zebrafish study to claim that the spike protein from COVID-19 vaccines is deadly.

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Live blood analysis and thermography quackery applied to COVID-19

Live blood analysis and clots
Live blood analysis and clots?

In the age of COVID-19, not only is every old antivax trope new again, but every old quackery has been resurrected anew, including live blood analysis and thermography.