Tag: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Antivaxers are petitioning the White House and Antivaxer-in-Chief President Donald Trump to listen to their demands.

Antivaxers think they have a friend in the White House, and they might very well be right.

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“Disruptive” functional medicine at the Cleveland Clinic: Disrupting medicine by mixing quackery with it

Cleveland Clinic, home of Dr. Mark Hyman
The Cleveland Clinic: Home of "integrating" quackery with medicine. Oh, and tolerance for antivaccine nonsense.

That the Cleveland Clinic has become one of the leading institutions, if not the leading institution, in embracing quackademic medicine is now indisputable. Indeed, 2017 greeted me with a reminder of just how low the Clinic has gone when the director of its Wellness Institute published a blatantly antivaccine article for a local publication, which […]

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Bogus “challenges” to prove the scientific consensus: The M.O. of a crank

"Come at me, bro'! You can't win because my $100,000 challenge is rigged!"

Cranks love ’em: Cash “challenges” demanding that skeptics and scientists “prove” the scientific consensus. Of course, these challenges are always rigged.

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How antivaxers deceptively don the mantle of “vaccine safety activists”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De Niro laid down a stinking bomb of stupid last week. Pratik Chougule ate it up.

Antivaxers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bend over backwards to represent themselves as “not antivaccine.” Don’t believe them. They are. It’s how they suck in the clueless, like Robert De Niro and Pratik Chougule.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De Niro issue a $100,000 vaccine “challenge.” It’s every bit as much as scam as Jock Doubleday’s “vaccine challenge” was a decade ago.

Great turnout, Bobby!

Longtime vaccine advocates will likely remember Jock Doubleday’s “vaccine challenge,” in which he offered up to $150,000 to anyone who would drink a body-weight calibrated dose of the vaccine additives in the childhood vaccine schedule. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De Niro have teamed up to issue a challenge every bit as nonsensical from a scientific standpoint, with the added bonus of its being a scam as well.