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If there’s one thing that I’ve learned over the last two decades dealing with antivax propaganda, it’s that bad papers written by antivax ideologues designed to promote a narrative that vaccines are dangerous and/or ineffective (but mostly dangerous) never die. Just take a look at the prototypical …
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By any measure one might like to use, the last few days have been rough for longtime antivax activist turned Democratic Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. It should be no surprise to anyone familiar with RFK Jr. just how far into the …
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This week, I could not avoid thinking yet again how much it is the case with antivaccine messaging since the COVID-19 pandemic hit that “everything old is new again.” Unfortunately, this would appear to be more the case than ever since longtime antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced …
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Dr. Harriet Hall (b. July 2, 1945; d. January 11, 2023)—and friend—at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas in 2011. After I got over the initial shock and sadness that hit me after I learned of the unexpected death of our friend and colleague Dr. Harriet Hall last week (Steve’s post about it here), I …
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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 blog is fast approaching its 15-year anniversary. That’s right. On January 1, 2008, Steve …
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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 he has done such a session, however the way that …
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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 art have given me an advantage in that I have more people sharing their clot stories …
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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 narrative being that COVID-19 …
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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 my personal blog beginning in late 2004. Then in 2008 …
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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, as the course was nearing its end, and the final …
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