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Steve Kirsch: Vaccines cause The Trans and The Gay!

Misinformation superspreaderr Kirsch challenging scientific consensus
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become as he "challenges" the scientific consensus.

Just when I thought Steve Kirsch couldn’t get any more ridiculous, he does another online survey linking vaccines to The Gay and The Trans, this one even more risibly incompetent than his usual.

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An antivaxxer abuses evolution to go full transphobe

James Lyons-Weiler and IPAK, transphobe, antivaxxer
James Lyons-Weiler

Antivaxxer James Lyons-Weiler, like so many antivaxxers, just let his transphobe freak flag fly high. Does he have to abuse evolution too?

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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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What do Mike Adams, Todd Starnes, and William Proxmire have in common?

Obesity: It's way more complicated than Mike Adams thinks. Big surprise there.

Readers of this blog of a certain age and above are likely to remember a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin named William Proxmire. Sen. Proxmire made a name for himself in the late 1970s and throughout much of the 1980s by issuing what he dubbed “The Golden Fleece Award,” which was meant to “honor” public officials […]