Science-Based Medicine is a group blog exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
18 Aug 2025
Poor Sayer Ji. He's just parroting an old alternative medicine trope that quacks have long weaponized against pharmaceuticals and that @SecKennedy is now weaponizing against vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/wha…
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Apr 2024
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…
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Apr 2024
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."
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Apr 2024
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.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Apr 2024
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.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Apr 2024
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…
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20 Dec 2023
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…
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Aug 2023
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.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
5 Aug 2023
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.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
8 Jul 2023
While I'm at it, you might enjoy this post too. 😂 respectfulinsolence.com/2023…
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
8 Jul 2023
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…
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
8 Jul 2023
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.
8 Jul 2023
Proof that @skepticalraptor is corrupt. I posted a challenge on his blog and I just checked now and he DELETED it rather than allowing it to be posted.
This means that both Gorski (@gorskon) and Reiss (@doritmi) and the other anti-anti-vaxxers must now speak out against this dishonest scientific behavior or they are equally corrupt (which we already knew, but this makes it obvious).
In addition, have been getting calls from honest raptors demanding that @skepticalraptor stop using the "raptor" brand name because he is tarnishing their brand image.
Publishing long blogs attacking me and then deleting my offer to settle the issue by discussing the 5 best scientific papers on each side is wrong, I don't care whose side of the argument you are on. Allowing the ambiguity to continue by refusing to engage in debate is not science.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
28 May 2023
No evidence IV vitamin drips can treat infertility sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-… by @PharmacistScott via @ScienceBasedMed
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
30 May 2023
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.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
1 May 2023
Holy hell. I'm having flashbacks to antivax 2006!
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
1 May 2023
ProtocolKills.com: Repackaging an old narrative about conventional medicine versus alternative medicine for #COVID19 sciencebasedmedicine.org/pro… via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
1 May 2023
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/ret… via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
25 Feb 2023
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…
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
25 Feb 2023
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.
25 Feb 2023
It’s all a theoretical debate for him, like discussing what would happen if you fell into a black hole.
Doctors who work with sick kids grasp the real world consequences. He’s more interested in feeling “special” and “heterodox.” Just another sheltered do nothing talker.
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ScienceBasedMed retweeted
26 Feb 2023
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/disho…
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