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Fear mongering about mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines in breast milk

Orac returns from his hiatus to be greeted with overblown fear mongering about mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines in breast milk based on a study that found trace amounts of it there. Let’s just say that there’s less there than meets they eye.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Caution over COVID-19 is “irrational anxiety”?

Irrational coronaphobia
This is how "irrational" Dr. Prasad views those who take precautions against COVID-19 are.

Before the pandemic, antivaxxers likened concern about childhood diseases to mental illness. In the age of COVID-19, Dr. Vinay Prasad accuses medicine of “legitimizing” irrational anxiety and says we should treat COVID like the flu—with one telling omission.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

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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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

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.