David Gorski
Viewpoint: Truce between MAHA and mainstream science? Its embrace of ‘quackery’ and pseudoscience makes that impossible
One of the truly remarkable—and depressing—things that I’ve observed since the longtime antivax activist who is now our Secretary of ...
Viewpoint — Lysenkoism 2.0: RFK, Jr. is more dangerous than the 1930s Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko, whose crackpot views killed millions of people and set back Russian science for decades
We don’t need to look to dystopian authoritarian theocracies portrayed in science fiction novels and movies to know that it ...
Viewpoint: COVID vaccines caused ‘turbo cancers’? MAHA disinformers revive long-debunked claims
... I saw a post on X, the disinformation hellsite formerly known as Twitter, by eminent oncologist and cancer researcher ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘useful idiots’: His 6-point plant that undermines U.S. health policy rolls along
It seems like ancient history now, but it was really only three months ago that I first wrote a post ...
Viewpoint: Once the global center of science-based medicine, the CDC now regularly lies and peddles junk science
... On November 19, 2025, the CDC updated its webpage about one of the central antivax claims dating back to ...
Viewpoint: ‘God is an antivaxxer’—Don’t let the MAHA movement’s claims of being evidence-based fool you. It’s now full-on anti-vax
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to say that he is not anti-vaccine, he is “pro-safety.” But when 1,000 ...
Viewpoint: Here’s a backgrounder on the anti-vaccine quack RFK, Jr. has drafted to prove vaccines cause autism
The longer President Donald Trump and his lackeys, particularly his Secretary of Health and Human Services, longtime antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., ...
Viewpoint: Weaponizing ‘informed consent’ — Here is how Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is undermining support for vaccinations … and it’s going to get a lost worse
There are a lot of ostensibly “pro-vaccine” physicians out there who, because they like how RFK Jr. includes an emphasis ...
Viewpoint: Health disaster ahead—Here is RFK, Jrs.’ 6-point plan to undermine the U.S. vaccination protection network that took decades to construct
[L]wyers, like RFK Jr., tend to approach data and studies very differently than scientists. While scientists test a hypothesis by ...
Yet another anti-vax doctor claims vaccines ‘shed’. Where did this myth originate?
It’s been too short a time since I last wrote about the antivaccine myth of “shedding,” particularly in the context of ...
Is the conman being conned? Claiming he’s been reincarnated as the ‘new Jesus’, Joseph Mercola upends company on the advice of Bahlon, the ‘psychic’s psychic’
An “exposé” of Joe Mercola published on Natural Products Insider, a website devoted to the supplements industry [covered] a story ...
Viewpoint: ‘I’m not anti vaccine, I’m pro-vaccine safety’ — Debunking Robert F. Kennedy’s lies about vaccine beliefs
CNN host Kasie Hunt interviewed antivax presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Although she did better than most journalists confronting ...
Latest conspiracy theory claims that COVID is ‘bacterial pneumonia’: Here’s how this antivax delusion gained a foothold
To antivaccine conspiracy theorists, it is always of the utmost importance to find a way to explain deaths from the ...
Viewpoint: Are anti-vax COVID physicians being ‘persecuted’ by medical regulatory boards?
Two COVID-19 antivax quacks, Drs. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory, announced that the ABIM had informed them that their board ...
Viewpoint: Why the COVID-19 lab leak theory refuses to die
Ever since the coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 was first identified as the cause of an outbreak of a mysterious ...
Viewpoint: Leading agricultural biotechnology critic Paul Thacker morphs into anti-vaccine propagandist
It’s been a while since I’ve written about Paul Thacker, the formerly legitimate investigative journalist who squandered his reputation by ...
The COVID myth that refuses to die — No, none of the coronavirus vaccines alters your brain DNA
As repetitive as I have been with respect to this, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes ...
How did this acupuncture study get published in Nature?
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, an unfortunately all-too-common topic for me was the proliferation of dubious acupuncture ...
Is ‘natural immunity’ superior to vaccine-induced protection?
What began as a viral TikTok hashtag has infected every social media platform: Many of the proudly unvaccinated now identify ...
Viewpoint: How Republicans have come to replace Democrats as the face of the anti-vaccine movement
There was a time not so long ago (perhaps a decade, but certainly no longer than 20 years ago), when ...
Viewpoint: Who is behind anti-vax propaganda claiming COVID shots are killing people? Meet disinformation provocateurs Peter McCullough, Mike Adams and RFK, Jr.
At the extreme end of the antivax hysteria is, as one might expect, Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com proclaiming... VACCINE HOLOCAUST ...
Viewpoint: How right wingers are pumping up the Wuhan lab leak theory — and why it’s still an unlikely explanation for COVID
Even as far back as February 2020, I noted that antivaxxer James Lyons-Weiler was falsely claiming that he had “broken ...
How COVID deniers are taking pages out of the anti-vaccine movement’s playbook
One of the most notable things about the COVID-19 pandemic has been how fast two science denialist movements made common cause ...
Stem cell therapy for autism? The darker side of ‘quackademic medicine’
As bad as the embrace of naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and even reiki and homeopathy by some institutions that would ...
Viewpoint: Great Barrington Declaration arguing for herd immunity ‘takes page from denialist propaganda playbook’
When you’ve been examining pseudoscientific and quack claims for over two decades, you start to recognize patterns in the strategies ...
Chinese coronavirus quackery: Authoritarian government forces use of Traditional Chinese Medicine – TCM – to treat COVID
The government in China’s far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including physically locking ...
‘Only 6%’: QAnon, Trump, conservative social media disinformation on COVID impact
[O]ne of the most idiotic right wing pundits out there, The Gateway Pundit [said]: The CDC silently updated their numbers ...
She’s baaaack! ‘Plandemic’ anti-vaccine disinformation ‘star’ Judy Mikovits now warning glyphosate, GMOs boost COVID-19 risk
[In early May], I wrote about Plandemic, a viral video featuring disgraced scientist turned antivaxxer turned COVID-19 “Fire Fauci” conspiracy ...
