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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

RFK Jr. being RFK Jr.
RFK Jr.

President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated antivax activist, conspiracy theorist, and all around crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. We are so screwed.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery

Steve Kirsch had a subretinal hemmorhage. No, it wasn’t vaccines.

Steve Kirsch's subretinal hemorrhage
Steve Kirsch's subretinal hemorrhage

Tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch recently suffered a devastating subretinal hemorrhage. While I hope he recovers his vision, antivaxxers are being antivaxxers and blaming his vision loss on vaccines.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Steve Kirsch goes off the deep end over the Moderna vaccine

Misinformation superspreaderr Kirsch challenging scientific consensus
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader. He means it ironically, but in fact it is an accurate description of what he’s become as he "challenges" the scientific consensus.

Steve Kirsch got his hands on COVID-19 vaccination data from the Czech Republic, and bad data analysis ensues. This time, he’s falsely claiming that Moderna vaccines are deadlier than Pfizer vaccines, but that both are deadly.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Donald Trump and the return of the antivax “monster shot”

Donald Trump meets with RFK Jr.
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. (along with Mike Pence) in 2016 during the presidential transition period.

Donald Trump called Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to try to gain his support. During the call, he repeated antivax tropes that he’s been repeating since 2007. A second Trump administration would be a public health disaster.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Dr. Pierre Kory has gone all-in on anti-statin quackery

Pierre Kory vs. ABIM?
Double cringe...

COVID contrarian turned antivax crank Dr. Pierre Kory has now embraced statin denial quackery. His evolution from COVID contrarian to all-purpose quack is now complete.