All posts by Jonathan Laxton

Jonathan Laxton is a General Internist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at a Canadian University teaching hospital. He has never been thrilled with pseudoscience and disinformation, but the "infodemic" around COVID-19 finally spurred him to engage it head-on.

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Aseem Malhotra
Internet & social mediaScience and MedicineVaccines

Unsafe and Ineffective: Aseem Malhotra

British consulting cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra has become the latest darling of the COVID-19 minimization and antivaccine movement in the UK. Previously known for anti-statin views and advocacy of the Pioppi diet who pivoted to more dangerous misinformation during the pandemic.

/ May 21, 2023
Politics and RegulationPublic HealthScience and the Media

Brownstone uses flawed data analysis to minimize COVID in NYC; An NYC hospitalist’s perspective

Guest posters Drs. Eric Burnett and Jonathan Laxton provide a lengthy rebuttal to Dr. Jessica Hockett's claims that NYC did not suffer a deadly, almost overwhelming wave of COVID-19 in 2020.

, / December 1, 2022