Tag: vaccines

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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
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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
Remington Nevin, MD

Dr. Remington Nevin: Michigan’s own RFK Jr. or Dr. Joseph Ladapo?

Dr. Remington Nevin is a the director of a county health department in Michigan but is poised to become Michigan's very own Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a MAHA crank put in charge of a state's public health apparatus.

/ September 7, 2026
MAPS Medical Board

“Autism biomed” is now in charge of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

The NIH announced that Dr. John Gaitanis, who has served as expert witness for plaintiffs of "vaccine injury" cases and is affiliated with the autism biomed quackery group MAPS, will lead the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Lysenko marches on.

/ August 24, 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
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Trump’s Frontal Assault on Vaccines

On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order full of antivax goals. It's a frontal assault on vaccines.

/ August 12, 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