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It shocked me to realize this weekend as I sat down with my laptop to compose this post that it will (probably) be my last SBM post of 2022. Dr. Steve Novella’s post last week also reminded me that this
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Senator Ron Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin, convened a round table with various actors known to be active in the anti-vaccine ecosystem with the premise that they would increase awareness of vaccine injury. This is not the first time
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In my twelve years of funeral service, one thing I have learned to be true; embalmers love a good clot story, and I find myself to be no exception to this. Seven years as an instructor of embalming and restorative
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Two weeks ago, COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Stew Peters released an antivaccine pseudodocumentary on Rumble entitled Died Suddenly. The central premise of the film is the old antivax claim that vaccines are a tool to promote “global depopulation,” with the film’s main
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I’ve been writing about the antivaccine movement and antivaxxers for close to a quarter of a century. Here’s a brief history. I first encountered them on Usenet—does anyone remember Usenet?—in the late 1990s and then began writing about them on
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Recently, I was taking my turn supervising the surgical skills lab for the interns in the residency program in which I’m faculty. It was a practice session for knot tying, suturing, and using the simulators to practice basic laparoscopic skills,
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“You really think it’s all new.“You really think about it too,”The old man scoffed as he spoke to me,“I’ll tell you a thing or two.” The Clash, Something About England Add this as another chapter to a series that I
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We here at Science-Based Medicine (SBM) have been combatting antivaccine misinformation and disinformation for nearly 15 years. In our early days—and even our not-so-early days—such pseudoscientific misinformation was disseminated primarily by antivax quacks and the people who believed them. Think
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[Editor’s note: I have, for the first time in five years, taken two whole weeks off from both meatspace work and the blog (although I can’t seem to completely quit Twitter for two whole weeks, as some of you might
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In stoking fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about vaccines, antivaxxers frequently try to induce disgust and revulsion. There have been many examples of this technique over the years, such as trying to portray vaccines as laden with horrific toxins (such
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