Showing once again that there is no old quackery that antivaxxers won’t embrace, “A Midwestern Doctor” touts the solvent DMSO as a cure-all.

Showing once again that there is no old quackery that antivaxxers won’t embrace, “A Midwestern Doctor” touts the solvent DMSO as a cure-all.
Ever since recombinant DNA has been used to develop and manufacture vaccines, antivaxxers have portrayed it as evil. This weekend, an antivaxxer decided that fear mongering about SV40 in COVID-19 vaccines wasn’t enough. Here we go again…
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been antivax for two decades. His fellow travelers are not happy about his leaving out vaccines in his “Make America Healthy Again.” To them it’s an obvious misdirection to hide his antivax views, and they are turning on him.
Antivax is more ideology and conspiracy than science. The recent accusation that antivax influencers are running “limited hangouts” as part of “controlled opposition helps illustrate this characteristic, in which the insufficiently radical are portrayed as useful idiots for the enemy or even heretics.
Shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he and Trump will “make America healthy again.” His proposals to do that range from semi-reasonable to outright quackery.