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SBM isn’t so great when you can’t afford it

SBM and medical debt

I argue that science-based medicine (SBM) is the best medicine. Unfortunately, SBM isn’t nearly as great when so many people can’t afford it.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Skepticism/critical thinking

Nazis. With the Brownstone Institute it’s always Nazis.

Nazis
They're coming to vaccinate you and make you wear masks forever!

The Brownstone Institute is once again promoting the tired narrative that public health interventions for COVID-19 are incipient fascism and those supporting them Nazis. Unfortunately, this false narrative resonates.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Justin Bieber: His Ramsey Hunt syndrome is not due to vaccines!

Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber in better days for him.

I never thought I’d be writing about Justin Bieber—or this late. However, after Bieber announced that he had developed facial paralysis as a result of Ramsay Hunt syndrome antivaxxers swooped in to blame it on COVID-19 vaccines.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science

Clots and COVID-19 vaccines: Misadventures under the microscope

Clots
Look how gross and disgusting these clots are. Let's watch Adams "analyze" them with hilarious incompetence.

All around quack and conspiracy theorist Mike Adams looked at blood clots under the microscopes and blamed COVID-19 vaccines. Hilarity ensued. Or it would be hilarious if lay people could see through it.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience

When new school antivaxxer Steve Kirsch met old school antivaxxer Andrew Wakefield

Old School
New school antivaxxers are becoming more and more like old school antivaxxers.

Steve Kirsch interviewed Andrew Wakefield, demonstrating that there is no distance between “new school” and “old school” antivaxxers anymore. Also, they are antivaccine, with Wakefield saying there is no safe vaccine.