Tag: COVID-19 vaccine

BMJ: PRR vs. Bayes

Once again, The BMJ, wittingly or unwittingly, reinforces an antivax narrative

Last week The BMJ published an investigation alleging that the algorithm for spotting safety signals after COVID vaccination was flawed and that the FDA ignored it, amplifying an old antivax narrative. Again. WTF, BMJ?

/ September 21, 2026
World War I soldiers wearing helmets and carrying rifles advance through a barbed wire field, moving forward in formation on a battlefield.

Dear John Horgan, Fluff MAHA/MAGA Doctors Less, Bash War More

"A cancer expert I admire becomes a Trump collaborator. Should he be dead to me?" That's an easy question to answer.

/ September 19, 2026

Making measles great again in Ohio

Dr. Jonathan Howard was right. They really do want you—and your kids—infected, preferably with measles. One way they'll accomplish this is by preventing schools from excluding unvaccinated children during outbreaks.

/ September 14, 2026
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“I’m Not Talking About 2020. I’m Talking About 2026.”

2020 is more than just a security blanket for MAHA/MAGA disinformation superspreaders, it's an indispensable tool for them. It is a distraction and a reflexive excuse for their current failures.

/ August 14, 2026
MAHA Institute

Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!

Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate antivax and quackery into medicine and public health. Sound familiar?

/ July 27, 2026
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.)

RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 11): Eliminate the CDC vaccine schedule!

A Reuters news story last week reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been trying to go way farther than previously suspected in his quest to eliminate vaccines.

/ July 20, 2026
CDC Headquarters

“Learn to love MAHA” vs. “how to make the CDC great again”?

MAHA apologist Dr. Joseph Marine recently wrote an article on how to make the CDC great again. Wait, what? Trump's been in office a year and a half, and the CDC isn't great?

/ July 13, 2026

MAHA vs. the FDA: Dredging up old anti-regulation revisionist history

Recently, I've noticed articles from outlets aligned with MAHA calling for the elimination of the FDA. It's all recycled "health freedom" revisionist history and ahistorical nonsense.

/ May 4, 2026
Why can't we be friends?

MAHA and science-based public health: Can’t we all just get along?

The answer is: Very likely not, at least not as long as MAHA embraces quackery and antivax pseudoscience—not that that didn't stop STAT News from ignoring the elephant in the room, vaccines, in search of a "kumbaya" moment between MAHA and public health.

/ April 13, 2026
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Since They Won’t Remind You, Here’s What Drs. John Ioannidis, Jay Bhattacharya, and Scott Atlas, Actually Said 6 Years Ago

The next time these doctors claim they were right, let's remind them exactly what they claim to have been right about.

/ April 11, 2026