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It is truly depressing to see straw men arguments like this from academics. This is a straw man so massive that, were it to be set on fire, the crew

I've been warning about the likelihood of antivaxxers arming themselves and becoming violent for years. Now it appears to be on the verge of happening, with "Mamalitia." 1/https://twitter.com/RMCarpiano/status/1387960353682649

Here's a thread about a @BBC news report about Hallwang Clinic. Hallwang Clinic, as regular readers might recall, is an alternative medicine clinic in Germany that specializes in combining unproven

It can’t. This is the same kind of messaging debacle that happened two decades ago when thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines “out of an overabundance of caution,” even though

Looks can be deceiving. After all, as I've mentioned before on Twitter, I've lost around 50 lbs over the last two years with diet and exercise, ride my bike 50+

You have no idea what you are talking about, and, sadly, Dr. Barrett, as much as I admire his history and work, is far behind the times on this. In

This is a new #COVID19 antivax meme going around, although the comparison is nothing new. White, privileged, entitled antivaxxers do so love comparing their "plight" to slavery, as though being

This is not new. It has actually been a long time coming. I've been writing about how antivaxxers have coopted far right rhetoric and have been becoming more extreme. Unfortunately

This is what I warned about regarding all the premature hype over #Hydroxychloroquine. @EmmanuelMacron's hype has led to #COVID19 patients in France refusing to be enrolled on randomized clinical trials

While @realDonaldTrump did supercharge it, the wholesale embrace of #Hydroxychloroquine to treat #COVID19 based on anecdotes was well under way before Trump noticed. That’s on us, as doctors. We embraced