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Antivaxxers rejoice over the spillover of distrust of COVID-19 vaccines to all vaccines

RFK Jr. in Berlin: Science denial at its worst
RFK Jr. at an antimask anti-"lockdown" rally.

Distrust of COVID-19 vaccines has led to spillover of distrust to all childhood vaccines, and among antivaxxers antivaxxers is much rejoicing.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Clot nonsense weaponized against COVID-19 vaccines

A blood clot
A blood clot, incompetently analyzed by Mike Adams.

Mike Adams finally reports on the composition of the “COVID-19 vaccine”-induced blood clot. Hilarity ensues, as it usually does whenever Adams gets near a science lab.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

TransTopia? Another antivaxxer goes full transphobe

David Dees and TransTopia
I picked this David Dees illustration because it encapsulates the attitude of the antivaccine movement towards trans people, whom antivaxxers view as "victims" of "contamination" from vaccines.

Antivaxxers have increasingly been showing themselves to be transphobic bigots as well. The latest example is “TransTopia,” where, thanks to mRNA vaccines, transgender is a “stepping stone” to transhumanism.

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Conspiracy theories about monkeypox sound an awful lot like COVID-19

Monkeypox

A week and a half ago the Biden administration officially declared monkeypox to be a national public health emergency. Unsurprisingly, conspiracy theories abound, many of them recycled from COVID-19 and older antivax conspiracy theories.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine

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.