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The endless quackery and grift of The Wellness Company

The Wellness Company, promoted by Dr. Peter McCullough, is the product of a trend in which antivax doctors have predictably become just grifting quacks. At least in this case, there is an amusing quack fight at the heart of it all.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Antivaxxers think they understand frame shifting. They do not.

A new study reported that the modified mRNA used in the Pfizer vaccine can cause a frame shift (to be explained) that results in the production of proteins besides the intended spike protein. The findings are, as you probably guessed, a big nothingburger compared to how they are being spun.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Popular culture

Come on, Jeffrey Tucker and Great Barrington Declaration, just admit you were wrong

In response to an article praising Taylor Swift, Jeffrey Tucker demands that Peggy Noonan “admit she was wrong” about COVID-19. Hilarity ensues.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

What is “medical freedom”? Not what “health freedom” advocates claim

Dr. Clayton Baker at the Brownstone Institute attempts to define “medical freedom” by deceptively wrapping it in what on first glance would seem to be unobjectionable principles.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Movies

Shot Dead: A particularly disgusting piece of antivax propaganda

Here we go again with a new antivax propaganda film. Shot Dead is even more vile than pre-pandemic antivax films, full of antivax propaganda and exploitation of dead children.