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

Gayle Delong's dumpster fire

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.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine

Molecular mimicry: The new old antivaccine abuse of science

RFK Jr. Harlem Vaccine Forum molecular mimicry
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in one of his more animated moments, as he lays down antivax nonsense

Antivaxers are nothing if not persistent and sometimes creative abusing science. This time it’s molecular mimicry, because of course it is. Anything to blame vaccines for autoimmune disease!

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

HPV vaccination works. Period.

HPV vaccine

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

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One more time: HPV vaccination is not associated with primary ovarian insufficiency

HPV vaccination doesn't cause primary ovarian insufficiency
HPV vaccination doesn't cause primary ovarian insufficiency

Antivaxers claim that HPV vaccination causes primary ovarian insufficiency, also known as premature ovarian failure. A large epidemiological study has just shown them to be wrong. As usual.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Cancer Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

A dumpster fire of a study about HPV vaccination and female fertility, courtesy of Gayle Delong

Gayle Delong's dumpster fire

Gayle Delong is an economist who thinks she’s an epidemiologist. Consistent with that delusion, her latest study of HPV vaccination is all amateurs hour, in which she misses a major potential confounder on her way to “proving” that HPV vaccination could be associated with decreased fertility in young women.