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When I read Steve Novella’s end-of-year post this Wednesday, one thing he wrote hit me a bit hard, although you might think that it’s for an odd reason. Specifically, when he stated that he “honestly had to make a concerted effort to avoid writing about RFK Jr., Dr. Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Jay …
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I wonder if the recent RSV surge is resulting in some infant RSV cases being labeled COVID. Not long ago, I spoke with a public health official who worked in Florida during their horrific Delta wave. She told me that 27 children died there during that time, and spontaneously volunteered that many …
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So-called “health influencers” – self-appointed health gurus spreading their unvetted opinions about health through social media, have apparently decided that seed oils are bad for you. Our chief health guru, RFK Jr, even blames seed oils for the obesity epidemic (based on the flimsiest of evidence …
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If there’s one thing that really, really, really irritates the living crap out of me, it’s how large swaths of the press have been describing President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in their reporting as a “vaccine skeptic,” …
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David Gorski wrote yesterday about the threat that a second Trump term holds for American health, specifically if he keeps his promise to give RFK Jr. some high level position over public health. Unfortunately, we have seen this movie before, although the sequel promises to be much worse. Putting a …
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With its unscientific push to vaccinate all infants and toddlers against COVID, the agency will harm vaccine uptake for more significant diseases In several previous articles, I argued that providing parents with accurate information about the pediatric COVID vaccine would boost confidence in all …
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It’s a holiday weekend here in the US (and, if I’m not mistaken, in the UK as well), and because of that I debated whether I should just take the weekend off, particularly given how rough the last couple of weeks were getting a grant application finished on Thursday evening. However, I am managing …
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A couple of years ago, I wrote about how so many of my colleagues seemed shocked at the emergence of so many antivax physicians, even asking: Why is anyone surprised that there are so many antivax physicians? At the risk of coming across as saying, “I told you so,” I basically told you so then, …
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One of the oldest antivax deflections in response to accusations of being antivaccine is a rejoinder of the form “I’m not antivaccine; I’m pro-safe vaccine” or “I’m not antivax; I’m a vaccine safety advocate.” Whatever the exact variation of this particular trope employed by any given antivaxxer …
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The anti-fluoride movement continues to make dubious claims about the safety of fluoride in public drinking water. They are also expanding into new social media platforms, like TikTok, where everything old is new again. These platforms give a second (or more) life to old debunked claims, which …
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