Tag: David Geier

A man in a suit, labeled as "Secretary KENNEDY," speaks passionately into a microphone at a hearing. He sits between two men in suits, with an audience, cameras, and microphones visible in the background.

Senator Hassan Sets Secretary Kennedy Straight

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's reckless insistence on undermining confidence in vaccines and reckless elevation of the wholly unqualified David Geier to a potentially influential role at HHS

/ May 18, 2025
Two men in suits, identified as Dr. Mark Geier and David Geier, appear on a Fox 19 news broadcast. Both are seated indoors in front of a wooden cabinet and bookshelves, with name labels shown at the bottom.

David Geier, Mail Order Pharmacist

David Geier was in the drug business. What was he selling before the FDA stepped in?

/ May 10, 2025
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HHS is weaponizing evidence-based medicine to falsely portray vaccines as unsafe

Last week, HHS announced that all "new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials." Sounds good? Not so fast. This is really a deceptive weaponization of evidence-based medicine to undermine confidence in vaccines and eliminate at least some of them.

/ May 5, 2025

New book: Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

This book is a handy compendium of everything worth knowing about the anti-vaccine movement and how to challenge the misinformation.

/ September 8, 2020

Chemical castration of autistic children leads to the downfall of Dr. Mark Geier

One of the most persistent myths is one that’s been particularly and doggedly resistant to evidence, science, clinical trials, epidemiology, and reason. It’s also a myth that I’ve been writing about a long time. Specifically, I’m referring to the now scientifically discredited myth that the mercury-containing thimerosal preservative that used to be in quite a few childhood vaccines causes autism. The myth...

/ May 9, 2011

Mercury in vaccines as a cause of autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs): A failed hypothesis

Mercury. It sounds very, very scary, particularly when you learn it was in some vaccines in the form of thimerosal. Fortunately, science tells us that thimerosal does not cause autism or neurologic injury, contrary to what antivaccinationists tell us.

/ January 7, 2008