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Antivaccine nonsense Homeopathy

Slapped on the wrist for misrepresenting homeopathic nosodes as vaccines

Jeanette Breen and homeopathic nosodes

Jeannette Breen, a certified nurse-midwife, sold homeopathic nosodes as routine childhood vaccinations and got a slap on the wrist for fraud.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

“Can colleges mandate Ozempic?” Clever or clueless analogy? You be the judge!

Ozempic
I hate the Ozempic jingle almost as much as I hate Dr. Prasad's brain dead analogy. Almost.

Dr. Vinay Prasad compares college booster mandates to mandating Ozempic in obese students. How are these things different from each other? Let me count the ways. How disingenuous is Dr. Prasad? Let me count the ways.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Eliminating school vaccine mandates is the antivax endgame

Endgame: School vaccine mandates
Not that Endgame! I'm talking about the antivaxxers's endgame of eliminating school vaccine mandates. (Thanos killing half the universe is an appropriate image, though.)

The endgame of the antivaccine movement has always been the elimination of school vaccine mandates. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the timeline for them to accomplish this.

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics

One more time: The Republican Party is the antivaccine party

Republican Party

NPR recently did a story about the alignment of the Republican Party and antivaxxers. Come for the freedom, stay for the antivax pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Florida Sen. Manny Diaz wants to “review” all vaccine mandates

Sen. Manny Diaz
Florida State Senator Manny Diaz wants to "review" all vaccine mandates, not just COVID-19 vaccine mandates. This was always one part of the endgame of the antivaccine movement, to eliminate all vaccine mandates of any kind.

Florida State Senator Manny Diaz wants to “review” all vaccine mandates in Florida, not just COVID-19 mandates. This was always the endgame for the antivaccine movement, and COVID-19 might just make it happen in some states, thanks to the embrace of antivaccine and antimask “freedumb” by Republican politicians