Debunk the Funk
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👋🏾 I’m Dan, I’m a Ph.D. in molecular biology that covers bad science while making good science accessible.
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Robert Malone will be remembered the same as the many science-deniers throughout history.
#RobertMalone
#GetVaccinated
#disinformation
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Why weren’t the same people now weirdly obsessing over a shirtless RFK Jr. equally impressed with Fauci running 3 miles a day while being over the age of 80? Because these people don’t actually care about health. Instead it’s all about optics and internet points.
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It actually wasn’t. Thalidomide was rejected for approval by the FDA due to lack of sufficient safety studies. This rejection was mostly thanks to Frances Oldham Kelsey, who stood firm on the rejection despite pressure from Big Pharma. European countries did not do the same. So,…
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I read RFK Jr.’s book about Fauci. In it, RFK Jr. paints Christine Maggiore as a hero. Christine had HIV/AIDS. She thought anti-retrovirals like AZT are poison. Because of her beliefs, both she and her infant daughter, who she passed HIV to, died of HIV/AIDS several years ago.
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Because of HIV/AIDS denialism, Christine Maggiore and her 4 year-old daughter are dead. Christine was infected with HIV and refused to take anti-virals that would have kept her alive and prevented her from passing it to her daughter. Both died needlessly of AIDS. Lies like those…
Nice of Bret to use his appearance in front of millions of listeners on Rogan today to talk about how he is now an HIV/AIDS denialist. He finds the evidence that AIDS is not caused by HIV but by the gay lifestyle to be "surprisingly compelling."
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Since anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. still don't understand simple public health concepts, here's a classic visualization from Penn & Teller.
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Hi Bobby, the paper you shared *speculates* that certain mutations may increase COVID severity. This paper shows those mutations are extremely rare & have no bearing on public health even if there is a real effect. Please learn to read scientific papers.
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Those are air bubbles between the glass slide and cover slip…
People who never looked into a light microscope shouldn’t try to interpret pictures from one.
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These clots just came out of an Italian man. He wasn’t vaccinated, but his neighbor’s friend’s niece got the vaccine 3 days before this happened. Coincidence? No way! This can’t be ignored. Wake up sheeple!
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As predicted,
@RWMaloneMD
is mad. He did not invent mRNA vaccines. After not much effort, he gave up on DNA vaccines b/c he couldn’t achieve immunogenicity in mice. Kariko did not give up. She persisted and did the science to make mRNA vaccines possible.
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Kate Middleton could have been struck by a meteorite and this human form of hot dog water would still have blamed COVID vaccines. There is no evidence that COVID vaccines cause cancer and if you ask this guy, who had his medical license revoked years ago, he can’t present any.…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is crazier than you think. He thinks that HIV does not cause AIDS and perpetuates homophonic, anti-science view that has harmed millions of people. He is not fit to run anything.
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There is no place in the multiverse where the vaccine has been shown to be riskier than COVID.
@elonmusk
, get a clue.
@SamTwits
@alexandrosM
I’m pro vaccines in general, but there’s a point where the cure/vaccine is potentially worse, if administered to the whole population, than the disease
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People often want to see scientists debate Anti-vaxxers. This is what you get when that happens. Scientists bring mountains of evidence while anti-vaxxers like
@thevivafrei
bring nothing but feelings and gimmicky debate tactics that fall apart under scrutiny. A long list of the…
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What RFK Jr. is proposing here, is the preventable suffering and death of children. No way around it.
We’ve already done these studies. Every randomized placebo-controlled trial of a vaccine showed that the control group suffered greater incidences of disease. Every large scale…
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This is a real page from RFK Jr.'s book where he praises a doctor for injecting ozone into people's butt-cheeks in order to treat COVID. Yup. According to Bobby K., injecting literal ozone into your butt is good, but vaccines are bad...
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The most-listened to podcast in the world, hosted by
@joerogan
, just platformed the biggest antivaxxer in the world,
@RobertKennedyJr
. What followed was recycled misinformation. The debunking was easy, but unfortunately the harm has already been done.
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Joe Rogan just keeps getting worse. He recently claimed that COVID vaccines cause autism. How did he come to this conclusion? He read the headline of a scientifically useless study and believed it because someone told him it was true.
@joerogan
is consistently incapable of…
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Elon Musk basically just said “go fuck yourself” to all of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. And he did it for clicks.
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Just realized that Dr. Drew blocked me. After I went on his show, I thought we had a decent discussion and I had hoped that my urging him to actually challenge his anti-vaccine guests might make some progress happen. Turns out, nope.
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@e_x_i_l_i_u_s
Yep! It was originally indicated for use during pregnancy and lack of teratogenic studies along with preliminary evidence that it may cause birth defects contributed to Frances’s decision. Now it is used as you described.
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@soundreece
Nope. All of the normal studies that would be done to approve a vaccine were done.
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Does the richest man in the world think that myocarditis = heart attack?
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Myocarditis is not a heart attack. The vast majority of myocarditis cases following vaccination resolve uneventfully. Do not confuse these cases with fulminant myocarditis, most often caused by pathogens
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The actual report references cases of neonatal sepsis caused by enteroviruses. A link to vaccinations was not made. Antivaxxers never read and always lie.
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In his debate with Destiny, Jordan Peterson served as a perfect example of intellectual laziness. Peterson spoke with high confidence about things he did not do the bare minimum to understand and instead repeated talking points. He was totally unprepared and Destiny did a good…
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So,
@BretWeinstein
made some egregiously wrong claims about immunology and mRNA vaccines. He said he would change his mind if faced with evidence. I asked some immunologists to explain the evidence to him. Will he be a man of his word?
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Yet again, just because you learned about it yesterday doesn’t mean that it’s new.
Here’s a story about a 2-foot long blood clot removed from a living man in 2013. Again, took 10 seconds to find. The sheer laziness of anti-vaxxers… 🤦🏾
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In the 2008 NYC marathon, 3 men collapsed and died of heart attacks.
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Now what?
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A prediction that will always be true:
10 years from now, medicine will have made more incredible progress in saving lives and science will have made countless new and exciting discoveries
Meanwhile, anti-vaccine leaders will be making the same claims and pulling the same scams
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About 15 years ago, I believed a lot of conspiracy theories about science-related topics. Something that helped me get out of that rabbit hole was recognizing how the scientific community actually works, something that I think laypeople in general don't appreciate. So, this video…
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Joe deserves 0 apologies and ivermectin was never and is still not an approved drug against COVID. (remdesivir,COVID%2D19%20and%20are%20at
When does Joe Rogan get an apology for his platforming of Ivermectin
The FDA now says the Nobel Prize winning drug is approved to treat COVID
How many lives could have been saved?
It was all about tyrannical control. It was not about "health" or "science"
Do not trust the…
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Hey
@BretWeinstein
, just finished listening to your response. You said it would be worth the wait, but waiting 6 months for you to bring two non-immunologists to get everything wrong with you was not worth the wait. In fact, a week after my video I wrote a note predicting the…
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The genius that is
@joerogan
blames drops in life expectancy, which started in 2020, on…vaccines that weren’t rolled out until 2021. Why does anyone listen to this guy?
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It's now been about 4 months since
@BretWeinstein
said he would respond to immunologists explaining why he was wrong about basic COVID vaccine concepts. In that time, Bret went on Tucker Carlson's show to say that COVID vaccines...killed 17 million people. Good lord 🤦🏽♂️ That claim…
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There is an anti-vaccine industry that profits solely off of scamming people who are not literate in science. They make millions of dollars in donations, "health" product sales, speaking fees, and viewership. But when you get down to it, it's just more classic anti-vaccine…
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According to this delusional author of the monumentally stupid Great Barrington Declaration, children wearing masks is more disturbing than MILLIONS of children being orphaned or losing a caregiver. Shame on you
@MartinKulldorff
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Roses are red
violets are blue
idiots think
that COVID is the flu
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Not
@RobertKennedyJr
’s organization claiming that polio isn’t caused by a virus 🙄 I’d love to hear any of his supporters defend this as a reasonable take.
FYI, poliomyelitis is caused by a virus. We have mostly eliminated the disease by vaccinating against said virus. At the…
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Yet another paper showing that COVID vaccination does not increase your risk of all-cause death. Authors examined the death rates of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated in a cohort of 3.1 million veterans. Vaccinated had a lower but not statistically significant rate of death compared to…
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John Campbell is someone who failed upwards on YouTube. He was once a decent communicator but then devolved into spreading misinformation because it got more views, to the point where he either lies or is unable to properly read the words on his screen. Oh, and he refuses to ever…
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Twitter having a normal day with calls for the execution of scientists…
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No, the spike protein from mRNA vaccination does not last forever. Anyone who tells you otherwise (like
@P_McCulloughMD
) they either don’t understand basic biology and the literature or are lying to you. Or both.
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@drcole12
Hi Ryan, this study injected mice intravenously (not intramuscularly) and reports 1 case of a mouse developing cancer + dying. With no realistic model, no statistical significance, & no causal link to the vaccine established (no S found in organs) why do you think this is useful?
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The argument in fantasy land: “ivermectin was sabotaged because it would invalidate vaccine EUAs.”
Meanwhile in reality: multiple EUAs for multiple vaccines, repurposed drugs, and new drugs were all approved as long as there was evidence that they worked. Ivermectin just didn’t.
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Wait until the conspiracy theorists find out that almost every country in the world has biology labs. 😱
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No, Pfizer mRNA vaccines still don’t cause blood clots.
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@komradeperogie
@RWMaloneMD
That’s them accepting the Japan award in Tokyo in 2022. Go be dumb somewhere else.
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Anti-vaxxers can't think. Including
@Johnincarlisle
, who apparently prefers audience capture over following the evidence. Data from Japan does not prove that COVID vaccines cause cancer. Not even close.
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Fear-mongering about residual DNA in vaccines is a very old anti-vaccine trope that has always been wrong. And no, mRNA vaccine platforms don't change that. But
@FLSurgeonGen
either does not care or has a tenuous grasp on the decades of research that has gone into this topic. The…
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Here ya go. Pay up.
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It doesn’t take 10 years to learn all of the adverse events of a vaccine. It’s a function of how many doses given, and we’ve given and studied billions of doses of COVID vaccine globally. Jimmy Dore can’t read a graph properly let alone figure this out for himself.…
My animosity towards the medical industry is fueled by them injecting me with an experimental gene therapy they assured me was safe & effective even though there were zero long term studies confirming that & them knowing it takes 10 years to find out those kind of answers &…
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Since people still don’t understand how to interpret what science says about masks, let me explain.
Masks. Are. Source. Control. 🧵
🚨BREAKING — New Analysis Shows Masks Are Ineffective At Preventing COVID-19 And Flu
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@joerogan
He has no obligation to debate on your show. Science is not settled on your podcast. But if you want to support a guy who argues that HIV does not cause AIDS then you’re choosing a legacy of willful ignorance.
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This guy got 217 COVID vaccines as part of a scam to get other people vaccination cards. But he makes for an interesting case study. No abnormalities or adverse events, and expected neutralizing antibody kinetics.
What would happen if you got vaccinated against the same antigen over and over again? In
@TheLancetInfDis
, we now report on a hypervaccinated individual from Magdeburg (HIM) who received 217 vaccinations within 29 months against SARS-CoV-2. 👇 1/19
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A reminder for all of the depraved vultures swooping in on Matthew Perry’s tragic passing…
In 2020 Grant Imahara passed suddenly. He was young. He was healthy. He is one of countless before him & a COVID vaccine obviously wasn’t involved.
These baseless claims are shameful.
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Contrary to what
@naomirwolf
claims, it’s not COVID vaccines. Research groups all around the world have checked. But anti-vaxxers don’t actually care about kids so why would they acknowledge this?
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No. The new variant may be more likely to cause infection in the named groups *relative to* previous variants. The goal of vaccination remains what it always has been, to prevent against severe disease. And they do that very well. Think before you tweet
@charliekirk11
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My video debunks vaccine misinformation using information that is in line with professional societies, the CDC, and WHO. The video that actually it addresses, which does violate your content policy, is still up.
@TeamYouTube
I strongly disagree with this decision.
@Debunk_the_Funk
heard back & confirmed that your content is in violation of our Community Guidelines. learn more here:
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Hey
@TeamYouTube
I uploaded a video as “unlisted” to make sure it would pass your checks and after a few hours you removed it and rejected my appeal less than 10 minutes after I submitted. Also my video doesn’t violate your guidelines. It debunks myths. Can a human take a look?
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This has always been wrong. Myocarditis is not one thing. It can be mild or severe. Both have different outcomes. If 2021 was your first time hearing about myocarditis, maybe pause and consider that you might not have a clue what you’re talking about.
@Debunk_the_Funk
The average lifespan of someone with myocarditis is like 5-10 years or something. How the fuck is that “mild”
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This was dumb two years ago and it’s still dumb today. Variants evolve regardless of vaccination. Please,
@GVDBossche
show me a time in history where an effective vaccine was purposely withheld during an outbreak to show that you didn’t make this up. Because you did make it up.
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Hey again
@BretWeinstein
, haven't heard anything from you yet. I hope it doesn't take another 6 months. Will we be talking this out or will I have to make another response to your entire podcast episode? If you can't talk to me how do you expect to stand up to Goliath?
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@elonmusk
Have you heard the correct information that vaccines prevent disease, not infection? Of course you haven’t, you don’t care to actually think. You just read headlines.
There is no place in the multiverse where the vaccine has been shown to be riskier than COVID.
@elonmusk
, get a clue.
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Antivaxxer claims that an increase in cardiac-associated deaths beginning in spring of 2020 was caused by vaccines that were first available in early 2021. What happened in 2020 that could possibly have caused such a thing? 🤔
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The real reason there black and Hispanic people were more affected by COVID in terms of health outcomes has been well-studied. The main reasons are poverty & access to good health. I thought maybe you’d talk about that since you claim to care so much about minorities. Guess not.
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I see that an anti-vaccine lawyer
wants to promote baseless fear about the childhood vaccine schedule. Meanwhile, childhood mortality has continued to decrease since the 1980’s thanks in part to the near disappearance of most vaccine-preventable diseases. Here are some real life…
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@FiveTimesAugust
Those are ads. Not science. The science even back then clearly showed smoking was detrimental to health. But you don’t actually care.
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Hey
@TeamYouTube
I know mistakes happen but come on. This video is debunking medical misinformation about COVID vaccines while the video that it is addressing remains live. Can you make sure this removal is corrected?
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It’s easy to make stuff up about science if you never give your audience the proper tools to interpret results. No, the study in question did not show that modifications to mRNA made in vaccines stimulates cancer growth. They just showed that it doesn’t prevent cancer growth if…
Lipid nano particle mRNA platform should be suspended indefinitely
“Evidence is provided that adding 100% of N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ) to the mRNA vaccine [as with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines] in a melanoma model stimulated cancer growth and metastasis, while…
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Fully vaccinated Steve Kirsch is brain-dead enough to think that the vaccinated are shooting spike protein blanks and I’m just over here expecting my second child 🤷🏽♂️
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A man with no medical training makes up a law of medicine to deny that a disease exists. Delusion is a helluva drug.
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@ValeriaLovene
@e_x_i_l_i_u_s
Zero evidence of any vaccine ever having teratogenic effects and still no evidence that mRNA vaccines do.
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Many reasons like:
1) Vaccination can reduce transmission and exposure. Less exposure, less risk for the community.
2) If lots of unvaccinated go to the hospital during an outbreak, that can disrupt health care for others
3) Uhm…I don’t want you to get sick and suffer/die?
If your vaccine works, why would you worry about other people’s vaccination status?
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I’ve honestly been blown away by the response to my video about Malone’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. All I can say is thank you and that I’m so, so happy to contribute something to the scicomm community. I hope to keep doing this as long as life lets me 🙂
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Yeah let’s make fear-mongering tweets about a non-peer-reviewed preprint describing a half-baked analysis of 2-year old clinical trial data while ignoring surveillance data involving billions of doses & showing that the vaccines are very safe. Great critical thinking! /s
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John Campbell’s last video to break 1 million views is so lazy and careless that it can be debunked in less than 1 minute.
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People historically have had a hard time fooling experts in their own field. That remains true. McKernan, Kirsch, and others (who have blocked me) are producing sloppy work, making sloppy conclusions, & making it easy for experts to debunk their nonsense.
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Just a normal day on this site where a pretend oncologist is monetizing people’s deaths. This person, according to her sister, died of liver failure. The pretend oncologist has no evidence that COVID vaccines had anything to do with her death. But Mr. Pretend oncologist doesn’t…
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Marathon runners are athletes, but some dude with more gaps in his teeth than brain cells disagrees.
Anyway, here’s 4 FIFA players that all died of cardiac arrest within a week of each other in 2010.
…
Next goal-post move?
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Thalidomide was rejected for approval in the US by the FDA on the grounds that it had insufficient safety data. The damage it did cause in countries where it was approved led to tighter regulations everywhere regarding licensing and approval of drugs.
They also said Thalidomide was safe and effective.
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Another lie from
@TheChiefNerd
. Why report on the results of a study involving 1.2 million people when you can report on a study involving 390? Oh, because the larger studies disagree with his narrative. Here is that 1.2 million people study and, just for fun, lots more. The data…
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It’s been 2 months since
@BretWeinstein
said he would respond to experts who explained to him why he was woefully uninformed in his opinions about COVID vaccines and autoimmunity. Seems that he does not, in fact, keep his word.
@michaelshermer
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I’ve been blocked by most of the people involved here so I had no idea that anti-vaxxers like Jikkyleaks and Kevin McKernan were putting forth the idea that the paper about the guy who got 217 COVID vaccines is fake. Yes, they actually think the whole study is fake. Their…
Antivaxers are surprised that no vaccine mRNA was found in T-cells isolated from a sample taken 189 days after the previous vaccine dose. They need to stop believing their own bollocks
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Today there are pretend experts going to Capitol Hill, invited by
@SenRonJohnson
, to spew nonsense about vaccines and VAERS. So, here is a short explainer showing how anti-vaxxers purposely misuse VAERS.
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Joe Rogan
@joerogan
continues to let people who don’t know what they’re talking about dazzle him with pseudoscience. Aseem Malhotra is one of those people.
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Hank has an autoimmune disease and has been high risk for lymphoma for several years. You would have known that if you listened to his announcement instead of immediately using it for a disgusting disinformation campaign.
The mRNA Covid vaccine was unlike any technology in vaccine history. People had no idea what they were having injected into their arms.
Get ready to see a LOT of cases of post-mRNA rollout “turbo cancer”.
It’s very real- and it doesn’t spare anyone.
Not even it’s most loyal…
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@MarioNawfal
Below is from the corresponding author of the study. Stop posting clickbait about stuff you don’t understand, Mario.
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The only people I’m mocking are ones who think that post-mortem clots or literal arteries are mysterious, never before seen blood clots caused by mRNA vaccines. Lying about vaccine injuries only hurts those who actually deserve compensation and help. But cowards who block me…
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People like you said the same thing about HIV. There were also anti-vaxxers during smallpox outbreaks. COVID killed millions, most of which were unvaccinated since around mid-2021, who are now permanently silenced. Please learn some history and your place in it.
@FiveTimesAugust
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Once again we have two grown men struggling to rub two brain cells together being heard by millions of people while science communicators try to clean up their mess.
Phenomenal Hovind tier rhetoric from Tucker Carlson. This is the opinion of someone who has not cracked open a biology textbook since high school, and didn’t really read it then either.
Rogan is understandably flabbergasted in response and I agree.
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