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The COVID-19 “vaccine holocaust” accelerates in antivax messaging

Vaccine holocaust?
No, COVID-19 vaccines are not causing a "vaccine holocaust."

The antivax lie that vaccines are killing lots of people long predates COVID-19, but now the idea of the “vaccine holocaust” has reached the ridiculously implausible proportions of 20 million dead and 2 billion injured. How did antivaxxers do this?

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Overconfidence as a contributor to science denial among physicians and scientists

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The pandemic has brought scientists who have rejected science with respect to COVID-19 public health measures a disturbing level of influence. Recent research suggests reasons why and who among the public susceptible to such misinformation remains persuadable.

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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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Two-thirds of the Great Barrington Declaration aren’t even hiding that they are antivax anymore

Antivax Great Barrington Declaration
You saw right! That's Jay Bhattacharya on the far left, with Martin Kulldorff sitting next to him, and Steve Kirsch next to him pontificating how COVID-19 vaccines have supposedly killed a half a million people. How can Bhattacharya and Kulldorff deny that they are antivaccine now?

Two of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration appeared on a panel with antivaxxer Steve Kirsch, who thinks COVID vaccines have killed 500K. And they keep denying that they are antivax!

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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.