Tag: quackery

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery

Ivermectin goes from being the new hydroxychloroquine to being the new MMS

Horse Ivermectin
Horse Ivermectin

A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to “cure” autism by eliminating “parasites.”

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Alan Lash recycles an old prepandemic antivax trope

Lash vs doctors
It its impressive that Lash resisted going to the old antivax standby of doctors shilling for tobacco companies. That's what makes him a skilled propagandist.

Everything old is new yet again, as Brownstone Institute’s Alan Lash recycles old antivax tropes about doctors supposedly being in the thrall of big pharma and therefore untrustworthy.

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery Science

The New Republic on a two decade war against medical quackery

War against quackery

A story is told in “The New Republic” about a certain entity that readers here might know well, at least longtime regulars.

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Nattokinase: The latest COVID-19 spike protein “detox” quackery

Nattokinase
Nattokinase.

The latest big thing among all the hippest COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers is nattokinase, which is claimed to bust clots and “detox” spike protein.

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Gov. Ron DeSantis grants antivaxxers their wish, a mini-“Nuremberg 2.0”

Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis fancies himself a Nuremberg prosecutor.

Since long before the pandemic,antivaxxers have fantasized about Nuremberg-like tribunals (a “Nuremberg 2.0, if you will) to punish vaccine advocates. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now giving them their wish.