"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 Quackery

Antivaxxers launch a frontal assault on the Killer Rabbit of plasmids

Post author By Orac
Post date October 28, 2024
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Ever since recombinant DNA has been used to develop and manufacture vaccines, antivaxxers have portrayed it as evil. This weekend, an antivaxxer decided that fear mongering about SV40 in COVID-19 vaccines wasn’t enough. Here we go again…

Tags 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, Ah Kahn Syed, antivaccine, Arkmedic, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, David Speicher, DNA contamination, Kevin McKernan, mRNA vaccine, Phillip Buckhaults, plasmid, polio vaccine, SV40, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

An antivaxxer interviews a respected oncologist about “turbo cancer”

Post author By Orac
Post date October 18, 2023
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Dr. Ryan Cole fear mongers about cancer and vaccines. ("Turbo cancer"?)

Once again, Orac is depressed to discover that an oncologist and scientist whom he admired 30 years ago is now giving credence to the antivax myth that COVID-19 vaccines are causing an epidemic of “turbo cancer.”