"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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Urgency of Normal, the Great Barrington Declaration, and the antivax movement

Post author By Orac
Post date March 9, 2022
64 Comments on Urgency of Normal, the Great Barrington Declaration, and the antivax movement

Florida antivax antimask "Urgency of Normal" — Besides the horrible image, what was also horrible was the presence of all manner of COVID-19 cranks, including antimaskers and antivaxxers.

On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis convened a roundtable including “Urgency of Normal,” Great Barrington Declaration authors, and antivaxxers. This was no coincidence, given the common talking points and causes between the groups.

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Biology Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Marc Girardot: A “COVID myth buster” who doesn’t know chemistry

Post author By Orac
Post date February 25, 2022
56 Comments on Marc Girardot: A “COVID myth buster” who doesn’t know chemistry

Marc Girardot vs. bouncing balls of spike — Because macroscopic bouncing balls are *just* like microscopic nanoparticles and mRNA molecules. (That's sarcasm, of course.)

Marc Girardot is a tech guy turned COVID-19 contrarian. His analogy to falsely “explain” why mRNA vaccines are deadly shows an astounding lack of understanding of basic chemistry.

Tags antivaccine, biochemistry, BioNTech, chemistry, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, lipid nanoparticles, Marc Girardot, Moderna, mRNA, PANDA, Pfizer, spike protein, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Computers and social media Medicine Politics Popular culture

John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Post author By Orac
Post date February 23, 2022
67 Comments on John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Kim Kardashian — It's time for the Kardahsian index and John Ioannidis, round two.

John Ioannidis’ “science Kardashian” article is the bad science that keeps demonstrating why we should have no superheroes in science. Ideology can warp any of us.

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“Science Kardashians” versus the Great Barrington Declaration?

Post author By Orac
Post date February 21, 2022
232 Comments on “Science Kardashians” versus the Great Barrington Declaration?

John Ioannidis has used a satirical bibliometrics index to portray Great Barrington Declaration signatories, who argue for a “natural herd immunity” approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the underdogs mobbed by “science Kardashians.” Why?

Tags American Institute for Economic Research, Brownstone Institute, COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, H-index, Jay Bhattacharya, John Ioannidis, John Snow Memorandum, K-index, Kardashian index, Kardashians, Kim Kardashian, Martin Kulldorff, natural herd immunity, Sunetra Gupta

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Religion, magic, and slavery: Rhetoric about masks and vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date February 18, 2022
92 Comments on Religion, magic, and slavery: Rhetoric about masks and vaccines

If one wants to see how much alike antimaskers and antivaxxers are, just look at their rhetoric about vaccines and masks as religion, slavery, and magic.

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