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The Centner Academy: A private school run by wealthy COVID-19 conspiracy theorists
David and Leila Centner run an expensive private school in Miami that shows what happens when antivaxxers and #COVID19 conspiracy theorists educate children. Its health teachings are dominated by quacks like Sayer Ji and Kelly Brogan.
Last week, there was a story that, one would think, would be custom made for a heaping helping of not-so-Respectful Insolence. Unfortunately, life being life and with all the other affronts to science going on at the time, somehow I never got around to looking into the story, other than a brief mention in another post in my not-so-secret other blog. I must admit that it bothered me. Then a reader…

ICAN’s disingenuous legalistic war on state departments of health over COVID-19 vaccination messaging
Antivaccine propagandist @delbigtree’s @ICANdecide is waging a legalistic war on efforts by @MichiganHHS and @NYStateofHealth to promote #CovidVaccine based on attacking them for “false advertising.” State departments of health need to be careful.
Regular readers are no doubt familiar with the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), the legal and propaganda arm of Del Bigtree‘s antivaccine empire. It just so turns out that I’m on ICAN’s email list, because I’m on a lot of quack and antivaccine email lists, the better to monitor what the disinformation peddlers are doing every day in their relentless effort to degrade public health,…

CCDH report shows that antivaxxers coordinate COVID-19 vaccine fear mongering
The Center for Countering Digital Hate has published a report showing antivaxxers have been coordinating their #CovidVaccine messages. All of these messages are old antivax messages repurposed and updated for the pandemic.
Earlier this week, I wrote about how an investigation by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) had revealed how antivaccine groups, including the most prominent ones like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense and Barbara Loe Fisher’s National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government through the Paycheck…

RFK Jr. doesn’t like being called antivacine and antimask
Poor, poor pitiful @RobertKennedyJr. He’s angry—so very, very angry—because Terry Gross had @PeterHotez on @nprfreshair, who correctly called him #antivaccine and #antimask.
RFK Jr. (a.k.a. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) has long been antivaccine. Indeed, he rapidly became a prominent figure in the antivaccine movement in 2005. That was when when his publication of Deadly Immunity simultaneously in Salon.com and Rolling Stone (to their eternal shame, a shame I will never stop reminding them of) popularized the Simpsonwood conspiracy theory, which posited that in 2000 the…

Even in a deadly pandemic germ theory denial persists
As hard as it is to believe, in the middle of a global pandemic that’s claimed so many lives and so thoroughly disrupted society, there are people who still deny germ theory. How can this be?
If there’s one thing that those of us who have been struggling to counter medical misinformation, quackery, and antivaccine pseudoscience frequently encounter, it’s people, particularly medical professionals and scientists, who have a hard time believing us when we describe just how unscientific, pseudoscientific, and just plain conspiracy-addled various beliefs underlying alternative medicine…

Andrew Wakefield spews nonsense about how the COVID-19 vaccine will “permanently alter your DNA”
Andrew Wakefield’s back, and—surprise! surprise!—he’s a #COVID19 conspiracy theorist who doesn’t understand biology. He thinks RNA vaccines are “genetic engineering” that will “permanently alter your DNA.”
As 2021 dawned, my first post of the year was about how many of my fellow physicians behaved very badly last year with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. While many physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals bravely risked their lives to care for COVID-19 patients (and some even died of COVID-19), a small but disturbing and impossible-to-ignore number of doctors denied or minimized…

Looking back on 2020: Too many physicians behaving badly
If there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that crises reveal character. Unfortunately, even as many physicians risked their lives caring for #COVID19 patients, other physicians spread misinformation about the pandemic.
As I sat down yesterday to write this post, it suddenly occurred to me: This will be my first post of 2021. Out of curiosity about the year that just ended, I scrolled back to my very first (substantive) post in 2020 and noticed that it was a about crowdfunding cancer quackery through GoFundMe, with the second post being about the goop lab on Netflix and the third being about a bogus attempt by…

Antivaxxers, COVID-19 vaccines, and “fetal cells”: Everything old is new again
Antivaxxers are raising the specter of “fetal cells” being used in #COVID19 vaccines to use religious objection to #abortion to demonize them. In the age of the pandemic, everything old is new again!
Somehow, some way, my ambitious plans for finishing out the week before Christmas with a catalogue of appropriate “insolence” directed at pseudoscience have come to naught, and I find myself on Christmas Eve morning with only one post this week, and even that was a repackaged post from my not-so-super-secret other blog. I suppose I could blame the COVID-19 vaccine the first dose of which I was…

COVID-19 vaccines and female infertility: Another antivax lie resurrected
Antivaxxers have been claiming that vaccines cause female infertility for as long as I can remember. So it’s not surprising that they are now making the false claim that COVID-19 vaccines will render women unable to complete a pregnancy.
One of the most common false claims made by the antivaccine movement is that a vaccine (or vaccines in general) somehow result in female infertility. Sure, antivaxxers will sometimes promote the idea that vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or simply kill older children, but not nearly as often as they like to spread the persistent myth that vaccines somehow “sterilize” females.…

Four hours ago, I got my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. So far, it hasn’t altered my DNA or even turned me into a newt. It has, however, started to protect me against coronavirus. Thanks to @karmanoscancer, @mclarenhealthcare, and @walgreens for being so organized in getting its medical staff the #covidvaccine. (at Wayne State University)
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