"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Judy Mikovits in Plandemic: An antivax conspiracy theorist becomes a COVID-19 grifter

Post author By Orac
Post date May 6, 2020
1,072 Comments on Judy Mikovits in Plandemic: An antivax conspiracy theorist becomes a COVID-19 grifter

Judy Mikovits is a disgraced scientist who claimed a retrovirus caused chronic fatigue syndrome, results later soundly refuted. She went antivaccine for a while but has now been reborn as a COVID-19 grifter.

Tags Anthony Fauci, antivaccine, documentary, featured, HIV, Judy Mikovits, Luc Montagnier, Mikki Willis, Plandemic, retrovirus, Robert Gallo, vaccines, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, XMRV

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President Trump and “just asking questions” about disinfectants and UV light to treat COVID-19

Post author By Orac
Post date April 24, 2020
103 Comments on President Trump and “just asking questions” about disinfectants and UV light to treat COVID-19

Last night, President Trump remarked about somehow getting disinfectants or light “inside” the body could kill coronavirus. Hilarity ensued, but his inadvertent promotion of COVID-19 quackery is deadly serious.

Tags bad science, bleach, coronavirus, COVID-19, disinfectant, Donald Trump, featured, hydrogen peroxide, miracle mineral solution, Miracle Mineral Supplement, pseudoscience, SARS-CoV-2, UV blood irradiation

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