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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

Dr. Ryan Cole and Mike Adams: Fear mongering about cancer and COVID-19 vaccines

Dr. Ryan Cole fear mongers about cancer and vaccines. ("Turbo cancer"?)

Antivaxxers have long claimed that vaccines cause cancer. Dr. Ryan Cole is now spreading the same misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Religion

Same as it ever was: Antivaxxers target Orthodox Jews with COVID-19 misinformation

COVID-19 misinformation targeted at Orthodox Jews
This should be retitled “Top Ten Lies About COVID-19 Vaccines.”

About a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, large measles outbreaks among Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Rockland County were linked to misinformation targeted to their communities by antivaxxers. History is repeating itself with COVID-19.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Martin Kulldorff has joined the Brownstone Institute

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.)

Martin Kulldorff was a Harvard epidemiologist who spearheaded the eugenics-embracing Great Barrington Declaration for AIER. Now he’s joined the GBD’s “spiritual offspring,” the Brownstone Institute. Because of course he has.

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Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine Politics Quackery

Hacker X: How Mike Adams expanded his quack empire to politics

Hacker X
Robert Willis, a.k.a. "Hacker X," helped Mike Adams expand his misinformation empire from health into politics.

Ars Technica recently published a story about Hacker X, who helped Mike Adams expand his online empire of health fraud into an empire of fake news and political disinformation, thus intertwining health and political misinformation into the deadly combination we see now.

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Antivaccine nonsense Religion

“Fetal cells” in COVID-19 vaccines…again

Antivax take on PER.C6 cells
Antivaxxers are at it again, trying to weaponize abortion and "fetal cells" against COVID-19 vaccines.

In the age of COVID, everything old is new again in antivax conspiracy world. This time around, antivaxxers are trying to claim (yet again) that COVID vaccines contain “fetal cells.” Once more into the breach.