Month: March 2023
Verbicide: Language as a Pandemic Casualty
Natural infection is getting infected. It's like water and H20. It's amazing that a doctor is trying to convince us otherwise.
Autism prevalence increases to 1 in 38, and antivaxxers blame vaccines without using the word “vaccine”
The CDC updated its estimates for the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders. Predictably, antivaxxers blame the increasing prevalence of ASDs reported, particularly in Black children, on "environmental factors," which is antivax code for, "Vaccines are to blame."
Medical “Conservatives” Are Medical Radicals
Any doctor who pushes for the repeated mass infection of unvaccinated babies and toddlers with a novel, mutating virus, when an effective vaccine is available, is a medical radical.
Peddling Misinformation About Diet and Cancer
Selling dubious nutrition products often involve attacking, and suing, your critics.
Part of a Complete Breakfast
Infection control. When one adheres to compliance it is effective. Like masks and COVID 45.
Ivermectin is now fast becoming the new MMS
A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to "cure" autism by eliminating "parasites."
Science-Based Satire: Florida Authorities Report First Case of Mosquito-Borne Fentanyl Overdose
Can a mosquito bite result in a fentanyl overdose? Will police soon be fitted with wearable naloxone pumps? Can fentanyl be detected by a handheld electronic device? The answer...is no. This is merely more nonsense cooked up in the mind of someone who probably should stick to his day job.
Sleep and Vaccination Response
A meta-analysis finds a non-significant trend in decreased antibody response with poor sleep. What is the significance?
Silent Silenced Doctors
The healthcare workers who died from COVID have been silenced.
The Cochrane mask fiasco: How the evidence-based medicine paradigm can produce misleading results
Last week, the Cochrane Collaborative was forced to walk back the conclusions of a review by Tom Jefferson et al that had been spun in the media as proving that "masks don't work." Tom Jefferson himself has been problematic about vaccines for a long time, but the rot goes deeper. What is it about the evidence-based medicine paradigm that results in misleading...