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“And we’d better not risk another frontal assault. That plasmid’s dynamite.” Antivaxxers vs. plasmid DNA

Published: October 21, 2024 07:00

Ever since recombinant DNA has been used to develop and manufacture vaccines, antivaxxers have portrayed it as evil. This weekend, an antivaxxer decided that fear mongering about SV40 in COVID-19 vaccines wasn't enough. Here we go again... The post “And…

Antivaxxers easily see through the misdirection of RFK Jr.’s MAHA

Published: October 14, 2024 07:00

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been antivax for two decades. His fellow travelers are not happy about his leaving out vaccines in his "Make America Healthy Again." To them it's an obvious misdirection, and they are turning on him. The post Antivaxxers easily…

The President of Stanford Wants Us To Debate Which Number is Larger, 9 or 133

Published: October 11, 2024 07:09

It doesn't bode well for the future that "leaders" of major American institutions look at naked emperors and compliment them on their beautiful clothes. The post The President of Stanford Wants Us To Debate Which Number is Larger, 9 or 133 first appeared…

microRNA – 2024 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine

Published: October 9, 2024 12:38

The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine goes to two researchers, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their work on microRNA. They began their research in the same lab in the late 1980s as postdoctoral fellow, and then continued to collaborate after…

Antivax as ideology: “Limited hangouts” run by “controlled opposition”

Published: October 7, 2024 07:00

Antivax is more ideology and conspiracy than science. The recent accusation that antivax influencers are running "limited hangouts" as part of "controlled opposition helps illustrate this characteristic, in which the insufficiently radical are portrayed as…

If Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Saw What I Saw, He’d Realize That Being Called “Fringe” Isn’t So Bad After All

Published: October 4, 2024 07:45

Dying of COVID is worse. The post If Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Saw What I Saw, He’d Realize That Being Called “Fringe” Isn’t So Bad After All first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.