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“New school” anti-(COVID-19)-vaxxers are all-in on “old school” vaccines-cause-autism antivax

Old School
New school antivaxxers are becoming more and more like old school antivaxxers.

Over the last month, Orac has noticed that “new school” COVID-19 antivaxxers are rediscovering old school “vaccines cause autism” pseudoscience in a huge way. Also, there’s transphobia. Lots of transphobia. WTF is going on?

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Brian Hooker and Neil Z. Miller publish another terrible “vaxxed/unvaxxed” study

Vaccine study by Brian Hooker

Brian Hooker and Neil Z. Miller, two antivaccine propagandists disguising themselves as scientists, published yet another terrible “vaxxed/unvaxxed” study purporting to show unvaccinated children are healthier. How awful was the study? Let Orac tell you!

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Combining childhood vaccines at one visit is not safe? Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Too many, too soon? Not so much. Contrary to what Neil Miller thinks, giving multiple vaccines at the same visit is safe.

I sensed a disturbance in the antivaccine (i.e, the dark) side of the Force yesterday. No matter where I wandered online and on social media, I kept running into a new article, an article by Neil Z. Miller about vaccines. For example, the merry band of antivaccine propagandists over at Age of Autism seem to […]