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gorskon

@gorskon@med-mastodon.com

Surgeon/scientist deconstructing quackery and antivax disinformation while promoting science-based medicine. Opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent those of my employers, although they should!

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Tech bro turned antivax propagandist Steve Kirsch reinvents how to challenge a scientific consensus, basically offering $1 million to reinvent the wheel.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/24/antivax-tech-bro-steve-kirsch-reinvents-challenging-a-scientific-consensus/

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I swear, some quacks manage to go lower and more bonkers than even I would've predicted.

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A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times' botched "vaccine injury." Unfortunately, The Washington Post botched discussing "IV drips" even worse.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/20/washington-post-flubs-it-with-an-advertorial-on-iv-drips/

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The COVID-19 quacks and grifters at the FLCCC have named twelve quacks as "senior fellow," the better to further antivax conspiracy theories and, of course, grift.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/17/the-flccc-bestows-the-fake-title-of-senior-fellow-to-twelve-antivax-quacks/

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A poorly framed article on people who believe they suffered vaccine injury is being trumpeted by antivaxxers. The New York Times definitely flubbed it this time.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/13/the-new-york-times-flubs-it-discussing-covid-19-vaccine-injury/

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A @nytimes article reports that in his divorce proceedings a decade ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argued that his earning potential had decreased because he had had a brainworm. This explains an awful lot.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/10/rfk-jr-has-a-brainworm-this-explains-an-awful-lot/

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Orac has long argued that chelation therapy for heart disease is quackery. An abstract presented last month finally confirmed that. Why did it take so long?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/06/chelation-therapy-doesnt-work-for-heart-disease/

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Just when I thought Steve Kirsch couldn't get any more ridiculous, he does another online survey linking vaccines to The Gay and The Trans, this one even more risibly incompetent than his usual.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/03/trans-gay-vaccines-steve-kirsch/

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A recent paper, amplified by antivax bloggers and John Campbell, claims that midazolam killed many COVID-19 patients in the UK as a result of "euthanasia." My brain hurts from reading such stupidity.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/05/02/midazolam-as-euthanasia-for-covid-or-the-most-brain-dead-paper-ive-ever-read/

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No matter how implausible it is or how weak the evidence for it is, the myth that COVID vaccines cause "turbo cancer" just won't die. Quite the contrary, alas. Antivaxxers are—dare I say?—turbocharging it with bad science.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/29/antivaxxers-just-arent-giving-up-on-their-ridiculous-turbo-cancer-nonsense/

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Antivax transphobe Toby Rogers got the bright idea that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits. So vaccines cause progressivism...and Trumpism, too? WTF?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/27/vaccines-cause-autism-which-leads-to-progressivism-andtrumpism/

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I must be pissing off the right people. In addition to antivaxxers sending me emails like this, now "gender critical" transphobes have joined the party.🙄😂

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Go away, Facebook algorithm. You're drunk if you think that I'm interested in a fundraiser for RFK Jr. at which the "entertainment" (if you can call it that) is...RobSchneider. That's one vision of hell.

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I know I've written about Paul Thacker's attacks on young physician Dr. Allison Neitzel three times now, but he just keeps going lower and demanding more not-so-Respectful Insolence. Orac is happy to oblige.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/18/thacker-the-hack-keeps-thacking-and-hacking/

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Dr. Vinay Prasad recently attacked an epidemiological study published in JAMA Open Network reporting that people in red states are more likely to report vaccine injuries, claiming that it "would not be difficult" to do a much more rigorous study.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/15/quoth-dr-prasad-it-would-not-be-difficult-to-do-an-impossible-vaers-study/

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After being forced through legal threats to "apologize" by a bunch of quacks and attacked by a hack journalist, Dr. Allison Neitzel tells her side of the story with respect to the hack.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/13/a-female-physician-responds-to-hack-journalist-paul-thacker/

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Color me surprised that might not use the best digital security practices. BTW, if my burner email pops up in that leak, know that I signed up just to monitor this particularly bonkers group of antivaxxers.😂

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gorskon,
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Also, I only signed onto their email list. I'd never actually give them the personal information they'd want, not to mention the money, to join.😉

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As the HBO documentary The Truth vs. Alex Jones shows, Alex Jones made big bucks selling supplements, and spreading conspiracy theories that Sandy Hook was a hoax was a big part of that. Did the DSHEA make Alex Jones?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/08/the-dshea-and-supplements-made-alex-jones/

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A week ago, Dr. Allison Neitzel posted an "apology" to some particularly odious antivax quacks. Predictably, the big antivax sites went into high gear to use the forced apology to amplify attacks on her.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/06/big-antivax-sites-amplify-paul-thackers-hit-piece-on-dr-allison-neitzel/

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Yesterday, I wrote about how conspiracy "journalist" Paul Thacker had dishonestly smeared @alineitzelmd as somehow "not a physician." In my post, I noted that Thacker was so sloppy that he seemed to think that I reside in Wisconsin when my state of residence is Michigan.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/04/hack-conspiracy-journalism-paul-thacker-vs-the-definition-of-physician/

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Well, Paul Thacker is the conspiracy monger gift that keeps on giving. Today, I noticed that he had quietly altered the text to remove the error without mentioning that he was correcting an error. Here are the before-and-after screenshots.

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An actual honest and ethical journalist would have added a note saying that he had altered the text to correct an error and explaining what the error had been. Of course, as a journalist Paul Thacker appears to be neither honest nor ethical. This is now obvious to me.

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OTOH, Paul thacker has admitted one of his errors, grudgingly, as this screenshot shows. Amusingly, he is either oblivious that Dr. Neitzel is obviously trolling him or intentionally ignoring the troll in order to feed his credulous readers a narrative that he's somehow "won."

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Seriously, though, shame on The BMJ for having published Paul Thacker's dishonest "journalism" on the Pfizer RCT of its COVID-19 vaccine./end

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