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Quoth antivaxxers: “Big pharma got Tucker Carlson!”

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson, with one of his more common facial expressions.

Tucker Carlson was fired on Monday. Antivaxxers are blaming big pharma because he had aired a segment attacking Pfizer and its COVID-19 vaccine.

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After their COVID success, antivaxxers are going old school on MMR

COVID-19? MMR? Everything old is new again.
COVID-19? MMR? Everything old is new again.

After using old antivax tropes against COVID-19 vaccines, antivaxxers are pivoting to reuse them to attack measles vaccines again. Everything old is new again—and old again.

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When “old school” antivaxxers meet the “new school” antivaxxers

"Beter Way" old school antivaxxer vs. new school antivaxxers
Antivaxxers like Dr. Robert Malone (second from left, the one who looks like Kenny Rogers) refuse to defend the childhood vaccination schedule at the Better Way Conference 2022 in Bath, England. Geert Vanden Bossche is the one sitting next to him adjusting his glasses and wishing he were somewhere else than with all these rabid antivaxxers.

An old school “vaccines cause autism” antivaxxer hosted new COVID-19 antivaxxers at an antivax conference last month. Although one new antivaxxer, Geert Vanden Bossche, was discomfited and pushed back against old antivax tropes, the rest joined Del Bigtree in spewing longstanding antivax tropes.

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Martin Kulldorff promotes an old antivax narrative about “natural immunity”

Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff strenuously denies being antivaccine while spouting antivaccine talking points.

Great Barrington Declaration author Martin Kulldorff, who is also the “scientific director” of the Brownstone Institute, a public health science denialist right wing “think tank,” is promoting an antivax narrative about “natural immunity” against COVID-19, because of course he is.

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The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) strikes back again

The GBD: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
The GBD: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Cranks love to cry “Persecution!” So it’s no surprise that GBD authors are striking back against critics with that narrative. Again.