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Antivax and transphobia: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy together

Transphobia and antivax
Toby Rogers appears to buy into the lie that vaccines cause transgenderism, although not because of "male" DNA. (That one is so pre pandemic.)

There’s long been a lot of transphobia among antivaxxers. As anti-trans bigotry increases in society, more and more antivaxxers are anti-trans. Enter Toby Rogers, who thinks “overvaccination” causes the trans.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Toby Rogers knows statistics but not vaccines

Toby Rogers
Toby Rogers is an economist. He thinks he knows autism, vaccines, progressivism, and epidemiology, "thinks" being the operative word.

Toby Rogers is an economist. He knows multivariate statistics. He doesn’t know epidemiology and pharmacovigilance. Does that stop him from fear mongering about vaccines? You know the answer!

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture Science

Jeffrey Tucker: The antivaccine movement and the far right

Jeffrey Tucker
Jeffrey Tucker (credit: Greg Skidmore via Wikipedia/Creative Commons)

Jeffery Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute, is a far right wing Neo-Confederate hack. What does this say about the confluence of the far right and antivax?

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Religion

Jane Ruby: The Mike Adams of nursing and health economics

Dr. Jane Ruby
"Dr. Jane Ruby" does appear to like to cosplay a physician, doesn't she?

We met “Dr.” Jane Ruby last week attacking Novavax, but she’s so much more antivaccine than just ranting about “moth DNA” in Novavax. Truly, she reaches Mike Adams level of bonkers.

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John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad team up to lecture social media about “obsessive criticism”

Irony meter meets obsessive criticism. John Ioannidis
Orac never thought he'd ever be using an irony meter meme in a discussion of something that Prof. Ioannidis has written, but here we are.

Formerly respectable academics John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad published a complaint about “obsessive criticism” on social media. Hilarity ensued, and many irony meters were reduced to sparking, smoking, sputtering ruin.