"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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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

HPV lies: Another example of how everything old antivax has been reborn as “new” again

Post author By Orac
Post date March 29, 2024
18 Comments on HPV lies: Another example of how everything old antivax has been reborn as “new” again

By embracing decade-old HPV vaccine fear mongering, COVID-19 “turbo cancer” quack Dr. William Makis demonstrates how everything old is new again among antivaxxers.

Tags antivaccine, cervical cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, cyclical vomiting syndrome, Holly Oakley, hpv, HPV vaccine, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, quackery, turbo cancer, vaccines, William Makis

Autism Bad science Cancer Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

R.I.P., Gayle DeLong

Gayle DeLong was an antivaxxer best known for blaming HPV vaccines for infertility and blaming her breast cancer on her children’s autism. Yesterday, I learned that her “autism-induced breast cancer” had recently claimed her life.

Tags antivaccine, Autism, autism-induced breast cancer, breast cancer, Gardasil, hpv, HPV vaccine, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Post author By Orac
Post date December 31, 2020
148 Comments on Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Reports of Bell’s palsy and syncopy after vaccination with RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines remind us how antivaxxers will weaponize anything bad happening after vaccination. Sadly, I predict an impending tsunami of confusing correlation with causation.

Tags Bell's palsy, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, death, hpv, HPV vaccine, pandemic, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, SARS-CoV-2, sids, sudden infant death syndrome

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Pseudoscience

Gayle DeLong responds to the retraction of her dumpster fire of a study on HPV vaccination and fertility

Post author By Orac
Post date December 17, 2019
135 Comments on Gayle DeLong responds to the retraction of her dumpster fire of a study on HPV vaccination and fertility

Gayle DeLong finally responds to the retraction of her incompetent paper linking HPV vaccination to lowered fertility in women in—of course—the antivaccine propaganda blog Age of Autism. It doesn’t go well.

Tags antivaccine, Cervarix, fertility, Gardasil, Gayle DeLong, hpv, HPV vaccine, human papilloma virus, premature ovarian failure, primary ovarian insufficiency, vaccine

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

HPV vaccination works. Period.

Post author By Orac
Post date June 28, 2019
108 Comments on HPV vaccination works. Period.

Antivaxers really, really don’t like HPV vaccines. Too bad that a new meta-analysis shows that they’re really effective.

Tags Cervarix, cervical cancer, Gardasil, hpv, HPV vaccine, human papilloma virus, period

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