ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed
Science-Based Medicine is a group blog exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine sciencebasedmedicine.org Joined October 2009-
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Seriously, though, shame on @bmj_latest/@bmj_company for having published @thackerpd's dishonest "journalism" on the @pfizer RCT of its #CovidVaccine. Former BMJ editor @fgodlee should be forever embarrassed for having published it./end respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11/15/wtf…
OTOH, he has admitted one of his errors, grudgingly, as this screenshot shows. Amusingly, he is either oblivious that @AliNeitzelMD is obviously trolling him or intentionally ignoring the troll in order to feed his credulous readers a narrative that he's somehow "won."
An actual honest and ethical journalist would have added a note saying that he had altered the text to correct an error and explaining what the error had been. Of course, as a journalist @thackerpd appears to be neither honest nor ethical.
Well, @thackerpd is the conspiracy monger gift that keeps on giving. Today, I noticed that he had quietly altered the text to remove the error without mentioning that he was correcting an error. Here are the before-and-after screenshots.
Yesterday, I wrote about how @thackerpd had dishonestly smeared @AliNeitzelMD as somehow "not a physician." In my post, I noted that Thacker was so sloppy that he seemed to think that I reside in Wisconsin when my state of residence is Michigan. respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/04/hac…
Antivaxxer @stkirsch apparently wants to make like Dino and Luigi in a classic Monty Python sketch and threaten @TeWhatuOra with releasing protected health information from the stolen database that he has. respectfulinsolence.com/2023/12/20/rab…
@OKAYFINE_Music @ScienceBasedMed @han_francis Imagining that the people correcting anti-vaccine misinformation are taking money from big Pharma to do it will not make anti-vaccine misinformation less wrong; just make you wrong on another thing. I hope you read the post.
@OKAYFINE_Music @ScienceBasedMed @han_francis Again, wanting to imagine that the people correcting you are paid isn’t going to make you less wrong. We took this picture in a public street to make fun of antivaccine shill claims. Maybe we should have realized people who fall for antivaccine misinformation won’t get this.
While I'm at it, you might enjoy this post too. 😂 respectfulinsolence.com/2023/07/05/now…
You've commented exactly once on my blog, and I let it publish after my antispam automoderation had held it up because you were a new commenter. Here's the link. respectfulinsolence.com/2023/06/14/ste…
I'm using a dormant and rarely (now) used account because my main one was blocked by Mr. Kirsch and I want him to see this: Dude, you were *never* blocked on my blog. Ever. Nor did I delete *any* attempt by you to comment on any of the posts I've written about you.
I'm using a dormant and rarely (now) used account because my main one was blocked by Mr. Kirsch and I want him to see this: Dude, you were *never* blocked on my blog. Ever. Nor did I delete *any* attempt by you to comment on any of the posts I've written about you.
No evidence IV vitamin drips can treat infertility sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-evidence-iv… by @PharmacistScott via @ScienceBasedMed
The hallmark of a good parody account is that I wasn't quite sure whether this was a parody until I clicked on the handle and checked to see if it was a parody account or not.
Holy hell. I'm having flashbacks to antivax 2006!
Holy hell. I'm having flashbacks to antivax 2006!
ProtocolKills.com: Repackaging an old narrative about conventional medicine versus alternative medicine for #COVID19 sciencebasedmedicine.org/protocolkills-… via @ScienceBasedMed @gorskon
Retracted papers about #COVID19 are more highly cited than they should be, but not because they should not have been retracted; if anything, not enough bad papers are retracted. sciencebasedmedicine.org/retracted-pape… via @ScienceBasedMed @gorskon
The latest big thing among all the hippest COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers is nattokinase, which is claimed to bust clots and "detox" spike protein. respectfulinsolence.com/2023/02/25/nat…
Precisely. And they don’t seem to realize that they are using *exactly* the same arguments antivaxxers used to use about measles and pertussis vaccines with respect to portraying a vaccine-preventable disease as “natural” and virtually “harmless” and the vaccine more dangerous.
Precisely. And they don’t seem to realize that they are using *exactly* the same arguments antivaxxers used to use about measles and pertussis vaccines with respect to portraying a vaccine-preventable disease as “natural” and virtually “harmless” and the vaccine more dangerous.
That anniversary snuck up on me. It's been 25 years since Andrew Wakeful published his atrocious case series that, along with thimerosal fear mongering by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a few years later, formed the basis of the pre-pandemic antivax movement. metro.co.uk/2023/02/26/dis…
Dr. Stephenson hasn’t been paying attention, has he? Dismissing any form of evidence that isn’t an RCT is *exactly* what EBM fundamentalists do to claim that there’s no evidence that masks with or that children benefit from #covidvaccine boosters.
Dr. Stephenson hasn’t been paying attention, has he? Dismissing any form of evidence that isn’t an RCT is *exactly* what EBM fundamentalists do to claim that there’s no evidence that masks with or that children benefit from #covidvaccine boosters.
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@ThePoxesStory @stkirsch @BrainuserM6086 Just to clarify: both Ren and Prof. Gaines are epidemiologists. Ren has a doctorate in epidemiology and extensive experience working on it in public health departments. He knows what is and is not done in epidemiology.
@stkirsch @doritmi @BrainuserM6086 But there are other things to look into. As an epidemiologist, you should know this, Steve-o. Are you assuming the data is MCAR, MNAR, MAR, or NMAR? And what analysis did you do to reach that conclusion? Go on, I'll wait. LOL.
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I’m heading there… soonish
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Hey everyone. If you haven't already, get your flu shot. Get your bivalent booster.
Most forms of science denial are fundamentally the same.
Marking myself safe from Andrew Tate
Feeling cute.
It seems I’m going to have to do some debunking about the (forthcoming) RSV vaccine in a bit. Stay tuned for that. It really never, ends does it?
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Whenever I question the evidence for #Ivermectin to treat #COVID19, I get a flurry of the same sort of hostile, angry replies that I used to get when I questioned the evidence for #Hydroxychloroquine. I wonder why that is...
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