"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).
Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order on vaccines. It's a repackaging of antivax tropes that will make infectious diseases great again. The post “Gold Standard Science” on vaccines? More like gold-plated nonsense appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. The post MAHA: The “we’re not antivax” mask has been dropped appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
On Monday, the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse joined President Trump to blame autism on acetaminophen use during pregnancy. They couldn’t resist adding antivax misinformation as well. The post The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Dr. Oz recently advocated "cooperation" with food companies to "make America healthy again." His call for "cooperation" was really a threat, and his message to poor Americans has been that you don't deserve healthcare unless you prove yourself "worthy." The post America’s Quack (now CMS Administrator) Dr. Oz goes authoritarian quack…again appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Dr. Pierre Kory name-checked me in a post falsely claiming that vaccines cause SIDS. I finally get around to responding. The post Dr. Pierre Kory promotes an old lie about vaccines and SIDS appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson held a hearing, "Voices of the Vaccine-injured." As expected, the misinformation and conspiracy theories flowed. The post “Voices of the Vaccine-injured”: Old school antivax nonsense on steroids appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Sen. Ron Johnson is at it again, this time promoting an antivax hearing called Voices of the Vaccine Injured at the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The post Antivaxxers will testify before a Senate committee…again appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
I can't believe it's been nearly four weeks since the podcast went live and I forgot to plug it, but Orac was interviewed for the It Could Happen Here podcast. The post Shameless self-promotion better late than never: Anti-Vax America appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
As predicted, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Watch him replace them with antivaxxers. I hope you're up to date on your vaccines. The post RFK Jr. guts ACIP to pack it with antivaxxers appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
"Dilbert" creator Scott Adams recently revealed that he has stage 4 prostate cancer. He tried to treat it with cancer quack William Makis' protocol and realized that quackery doesn't work, leading Makis to attack the victim. The post Scott Adams vs. a cancer quack appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Last month I referred to the "soft eugenics" of RFK Jr. and MAHA. More recently, he and Dr. Oz provided new examples, one about autism, the other about public health. The post The soft eugenics of MAHA: RFK Jr. on autism and Dr. Oz on your patriotic duty to be healthy appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
I've long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Given the ongoing measles outbreak, with two children dead so far, it's time for me to take a look at the "soft eugenics" of the antivax movement and, more generally, the MAHA movement. The post The soft eugenics of MAHA: Measles and RFK Jr. appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Dr. Joe Mercola embraced "alternative health" in the late 1990s, including quackery and antivax, and has since become very wealthy. Lately, he's fallen under the spell of a psychic grifter and declared himself to be the "new Jesus." What will happen to his business empire? The post The Mercola tapes: A wealthy antivax quack scammed appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial. Will his results be as disastrous? The post MAHA: The new Lysenkoism appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .
...yikes! I haven't had a chance to watch all of RFK Jr.'s press conference, but what I've seen...yikes. I'm gonna need a bigger blog. While I'm working on it, though, feel free to vent! The post I saw RFK Jr.’s press conference on autism and… appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE .