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gorskon, 5 days ago to random

Antivax Grande Dame Barbara Loe Fisher is lamenting how without warning her old friend, quack tycoon Joe Mercola, cut off his regular financial support of her antivax org. What's going on here?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/06/04/quack-tycoon-joe-mercola-abandons-an-old-antivax-friend/

gorskon, 5 days ago to random

I've long argued that antivax beliefs, indeed all science denial, is conspiracy theory. Leave it to The Brownstone Institute's Jeffery Tucker to make my point better for me than I ever could. Of course, Brownstone was always going to "go there."

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/?p=42550

gorskon, 8 days ago to random

One quirk of having blogged so long is that sometimes cranks you've blogged about reappear after a long disappearance. So it was when antivax wunderkind Jake Crosby retracted a bogus critique of a study that failed to find a link between MMR and autism.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/31/a-blast-from-the-past-jake-crosby-retracts-his-antivax-criticism-of-an-mmr-study/

gorskon, 9 days ago to random

I'm seriously disappointed that my name isn't anywhere on this list of 91.

gorskon, 9 days ago to random

As I kept saying and keep saying, this was always going to happen. "New school" anti-COVID vaccine antivaxxers are devolving into just antivaxxers, repeating very old antivax tropes, misinformation, and lies about, for example, SIDS and vaccines and vaccines causing autism.

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gorskon, 11 days ago to random

Coming back to work after a three-day holiday weekend is always a good time to bask in the adulation of my adoring fans.

gorskon, 11 days ago to random

Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute has let his inner Alex Jones conspiracy freak flag fly high. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-ultimate-covid-19-antivax-conspiracy-theory-courtesy-of-the-brownstone-institute-and-jeffery-tucker/

gorskon, 12 days ago to random

Perusing X, I found an alternative cancer cure testimonial, which led me into "functional health" nonsense that I hadn't encountered before. Introducing FitScript™, "functional" cancer quackery.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/28/fitscript-yet-more-functional-cancer-quackery/

gorskon, 15 days ago to random

Tech bro turned antivax propagandist Steve Kirsch reinvents how to challenge a scientific consensus, basically offering $1 million to reinvent the wheel.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/24/antivax-tech-bro-steve-kirsch-reinvents-challenging-a-scientific-consensus/

gorskon, 19 days ago to random

I swear, some quacks manage to go lower and more bonkers than even I would've predicted.

gorskon, 19 days ago to random

A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times' botched "vaccine injury." Unfortunately, The Washington Post botched discussing "IV drips" even worse.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/20/washington-post-flubs-it-with-an-advertorial-on-iv-drips/

gorskon, 22 days ago to random

The COVID-19 quacks and grifters at the FLCCC have named twelve quacks as "senior fellow," the better to further antivax conspiracy theories and, of course, grift.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/17/the-flccc-bestows-the-fake-title-of-senior-fellow-to-twelve-antivax-quacks/

gorskon, 26 days ago to random

A poorly framed article on people who believe they suffered vaccine injury is being trumpeted by antivaxxers. The New York Times definitely flubbed it this time.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/13/the-new-york-times-flubs-it-discussing-covid-19-vaccine-injury/

gorskon, 30 days ago to random

A @nytimes article reports that in his divorce proceedings a decade ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argued that his earning potential had decreased because he had had a brainworm. This explains an awful lot.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/10/rfk-jr-has-a-brainworm-this-explains-an-awful-lot/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

Orac has long argued that chelation therapy for heart disease is quackery. An abstract presented last month finally confirmed that. Why did it take so long?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/06/chelation-therapy-doesnt-work-for-heart-disease/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

Just when I thought Steve Kirsch couldn't get any more ridiculous, he does another online survey linking vaccines to The Gay and The Trans, this one even more risibly incompetent than his usual.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/03/trans-gay-vaccines-steve-kirsch/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

A recent paper, amplified by antivax bloggers and John Campbell, claims that midazolam killed many COVID-19 patients in the UK as a result of "euthanasia." My brain hurts from reading such stupidity.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/02/midazolam-as-euthanasia-for-covid-or-the-most-brain-dead-paper-ive-ever-read/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

No matter how implausible it is or how weak the evidence for it is, the myth that COVID vaccines cause "turbo cancer" just won't die. Quite the contrary, alas. Antivaxxers are—dare I say?—turbocharging it with bad science.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/29/antivaxxers-just-arent-giving-up-on-their-ridiculous-turbo-cancer-nonsense/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

Antivax transphobe Toby Rogers got the bright idea that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits. So vaccines cause progressivism...and Trumpism, too? WTF?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/27/vaccines-cause-autism-which-leads-to-progressivism-andtrumpism/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

I must be pissing off the right people. In addition to antivaxxers sending me emails like this, now "gender critical" transphobes have joined the party.🙄😂

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gorskon, 1 month ago to random

Go away, Facebook algorithm. You're drunk if you think that I'm interested in a fundraiser for RFK Jr. at which the "entertainment" (if you can call it that) is...RobSchneider. That's one vision of hell.

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

I know I've written about Paul Thacker's attacks on young physician Dr. Allison Neitzel three times now, but he just keeps going lower and demanding more not-so-Respectful Insolence. Orac is happy to oblige.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/18/thacker-the-hack-keeps-thacking-and-hacking/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

Dr. Vinay Prasad recently attacked an epidemiological study published in JAMA Open Network reporting that people in red states are more likely to report vaccine injuries, claiming that it "would not be difficult" to do a much more rigorous study.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/15/quoth-dr-prasad-it-would-not-be-difficult-to-do-an-impossible-vaers-study/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

After being forced through legal threats to "apologize" by a bunch of quacks and attacked by a hack journalist, Dr. Allison Neitzel tells her side of the story with respect to the hack.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/13/a-female-physician-responds-to-hack-journalist-paul-thacker/

gorskon, 1 month ago to random

Color me surprised that #antivaxxers might not use the best digital security practices. BTW, if my burner email pops up in that leak, know that I signed up just to monitor this particularly bonkers group of antivaxxers.😂

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