Yesterday, antivaxers held a protest event on the Mall in Washington, DC that they called the Vaccine Injury Epidemic (VIE) Event. Misnformation flowed fast and furious.
Tag: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Antivaxers are targeting minorities with their misinformation and conspiracy theories
Orac has been writing about this a long time. Finally, the mainstream media are noticing how antivaxers target minorities with their message.
Molecular mimicry: The new old antivaccine abuse of science
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!
Harlem Vaccine Forum: RFK Jr.’s fiasco of an attempt to court African-Americans
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reached out to the African-American Community in Harlem with his antivaccine message. It didn’t go so well. First, Rev. Al Sharpton, whose National Action Committee was going to host it, bailed due to negative publicity. Then RFK Jr. was kicked out of his venue during his speech because the event went way over time. RFK Jr.’s efforts do, however, show how white antivaxers are a danger to African-Americans and other minority communities through their active, albeit hamfisted, attempts to promote antivaccine misinformation to them.
Rev. Al Sharpton’s Harlem antivaccine confab has been canceled!
Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network was scheduled to host an antivaccine confab this Saturday. Then the press got wind of it. Let's just say that it's not happening any more—for now.
Corvelva and “Vaccinegate”: Italian antivaxers produce a dubious “scientific report” on fetal DNA in vaccines
The Italian antivaccine group Corvelva published a really bad "scientific report" claiming fetal DNA in vaccines is dangerous based on a dubious next generation sequencing analysis whose methods are not described. It's not. To believe its claims, you have to believe that DNA can do anything.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lays down even more antivax misinformation now that SB 276 has become law
SB 276 is now law, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is very unhappy, so much so that he's laying down the antivax nonsense fast and furious. It's particularly nonsensical, even for him.
V is for Vaccine: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Del Bigtree rile up an antivaccine demonstration against SB 276
"V is for Vaccine" was an antivaccine protest at the California Capitol yesterday. RFK Jr. and Del Bigtree fired up antivaxers with their usual cocktail of pseudoscience, misinformation, and political posturing as "health freedom" advocates.
Is the current generation of children the “sickest generation,” as antivaxers claim?
Presidential candidate and New Age self-help guru Marianne Williamson has been repeating a claim that over half of our children have chronic illness and implying that the expansion of the vaccine schedule since the late 1980s is responsible. But is it true? Are over half of our children sick? Is this “the sickest generation”?
Marianne Williamson is NOT a skeptic
Faye Flam of Bloomberg Technology defended Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson against charges of being antivaccine and antiscience. It does not go well. Flam ignores the worst nonsense and misunderstands science.