No randomized placebo controlled trials they say? Hahahaha

Preview for my “An inconvenient study” debunking video. 😉 Go watch and like the whole thing on YouTube!

I debunked the “An Inconvenient Study” documentary. It was bad. I had a bad time. But the video turned out great. May my sacrifice help you in your fight against anti-vaccine influencers. youtu.be/KhRZFw2DCBI?...

@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass

My March reading month. One big stinker, lots of enjoyable reads, and some fantastic standouts!

The MAHA Institute is currently holding an event, MEVI Roundtable: Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury to fear monger about vaccines. Unfortunately, @weldeiry.bsky.social, a prominent oncologist-scientist, is lending his scientific respectability to it. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...

The Science Counterpunch just landed! We chat to Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) about how anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream, how journos and politicians ask ineffective questions to cranks, and how to Debunk with Funk! Check it out! Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2... ⚛️🧪

Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) is suprised by how rapidly anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream and politically acceptable in the US. 🗣️ "Now they are our leaders. I didn't think it could get that far." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/8XWBClHPnXQ Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2HGVBaeA ⚛️🧪

New episode of #ScienceCounterpunch is out with resident vaccine misinfo debunker Dan Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social talking Covid contrarians, grifters, RFKjr and why journalists keep asking the wrong questions. Dan´s brilliant, polite and hard working. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2...

Next episode of #ScienceCounterpunch airs Friday, 5pm UK. We sat down with former conspiracy-curious teenager turned most meticulous debunker @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social We discuss how fringe anti-vaxxers moved from fleecing online communities to the highest halls of power & how to fight back.

Are there real life astrophages? Sort of! #projecthailmary youtu.be/r97z1UOs_z4

Autism is primarily caused by genetics. Can some environmental factors play a role? Yes! ✅ Have we identified any of these environmental factors? Yes! ✅ Is RFK Jr.’s HHS doing anything about them? No! ❌

RFK Jr. recently repeated his administration’s announcement that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism on the Joe Rogan podcast. The response isn’t even ambiguous, it’s dead wrong. The strongest available evidence rejects that idea convincingly. youtu.be/QF5x5t5qmwI

I love this guy and he works his butt off on making amazing videos so I sponsored this video he made about the* cure for cancer**. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOu... *a **a cancer

Major media FINALLY starts paying attention to the Brownstone Institute. I’ve been covering this group for years and Jeffrey Tucker’s influence in this administration. This Politico story adds new layers like sexual harassment allegations against Tucker and Heritage Foundation sponsoring a retreat

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org

@debunk-the-funk.bsky.social you should tell Steve he owes you a million dollars. I can’t believe he has the nerve to act like nobody has the guts to debate him after you wiped the floor with him.

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Covering the vaccine/virus conspiracies around Kirsch here: www.integralworld.net/visser600.ht...

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr. We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV

The Greatest Vaccine Debate In History. ProfessorDaveExplains Dave Farina & @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social Dr. Dan Wilson go HEAD-TO-HEAD with Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory on VACCINES! youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA?...

This is what happens when anti-vaxxers debate people who can call them out. One side gives you sob stories and speeches while the other gives you facts. youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA

The most exciting discussion we've ever produced. Thank you so much  ‪@ProfessorDaveExplains‬ ​ & @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social  ​ ! The vaccine debate video will be out soon.

Ladapo said what? Comparing vaccines to slavery is just BEYOND insulting. A comment like that doesn't just miss the mark, it is diabolically ignorant & a slap in the face. Slavery is a REAL historical trauma, not a metaphor for vaccinations. @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social and Vincent discuss

The Biggest Intellectual SLUGFEST in History on VACCINES is happening on September 13th in NYC! Dave Farina & Dan Wilson vs Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory! We hope you join us LIVE! Tickets here: pang-burn.com/tickets

Many thanks to @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social for featuring our new book #scienceundersiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social for your Sept/Oct issue devoted to the attacks on science and the scicomms response

This will be the most important discussion we've ever produced. ProfessorDaveExplains & @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social go HEAD-TO-HEAD with Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory on VACCINES! September 13th in NYC! LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE! ACT FAST! Tickets here: pang-burn.com/tickets

Stat News is giving advice to Prasad like he’s an overtired toddler. www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/v...

"What happens is Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he is talking about but he doesn't."👇🏻

mRNA vaccines do not cause “antigenic shift.” Antigenic shift is a term used for flu viruses when they shuffle their segmented genomes. mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives and continue to be effective in preventing severe outcomes of COVID. So far, mutations have never changed that fact.

NEW: There’s another COVID contrarian working in the Office of the Director at NIH. Kevin Bardosh has staked out a number of fringe positions on mRNA vaccines and other pandemic mitigation measures. He was recruited out of a UK-based anti-lockdown group Jay Bhattacharya was affiliated with.

We’d be funding courses at universities to teach students about right-wing disinformation. We’d be running info/public service ads about groups like the Heritage Foundation and PragerU to inoculate people to their billionaire-funded propaganda… Speaking of, if you want to help us:

After talking such a big game, the guy couldn’t last longer than a pregnancy.

This interview from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social of @peterdaszak.bsky.social is essential viewing. Conspiracy theorizing about a COVID lab leak is creating dangerous conditions for scientists. But misinformers spread bullshit with reckless abandon. It’s sickening. youtu.be/XTGM4u-l_YY?...

Instead of endless conspiracy theories it's better to focus on the evidence of this Q instead. Three 🌟 recent lay-resources 👇 @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social youtu.be/eTlur4YIAo0?... @gidmk.bsky.social gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

I remember when folks were suggesting Makary was maybe not as terrible a pick as Trump could have made. Not us tho. Our Important Context story about this self-promoting anti-vax charlatan really did nail it. (If I do say so myself) www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...

The WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogen released a report last month that evidence still points to COVID-19 having natural origins. This week, we revealed that 3 lab leak enthusiasts with ties to a fringe biosafety group are working in the NIH director’s office.

Lots of people still feel strongly that COVID came from a lab. Conspiracy theorists say that this has even been confirmed. And still many believe things about this story that just aren’t true. Here is the truth as best we know it. youtu.be/eTlur4YIAo0

A citation I missed because I filmed this video a few months ago. Tl;dr - it also destroys the anti-vaxxer’s blog posts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This has been a fun topic for me to cover because anti-vaxxers responsible for it hide behind jargon and the illusion of real data, but when you go in with expert eyes it becomes clear that it’s all just slop. COVID vaccines are not contaminated with DNA. youtu.be/Z8lzxHoejAo

I’m going to keep saying this: COVID contrarians and anti-vaxxers weren’t censored. By anyone. It’s just a marketing ploy for their bullshit.

Here’s my full write-up of this week’s ACIP meetings. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...

So this is who RFK Jr. just nominated as an ACIP member. If this isn’t an anti-vaxxer then wtf is?

I’ll probably never really get over people on the “left” attacking me for warning that Jay Bhattacharya was just a right-wing operative who wanted people back to work for the economy. Dude was a favorite with business-aligned right-wing dark money groups, but I was the sellout. Well, now look…

BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-worker...

Tomorrow morning, we have a really big story coming out at www.importantcontext.news You’ve been warned!

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

I'm glad this article is making the rounds, but here's the thing: they've been doing this for years. I've identified dozens of instances on the Children's Health Defense blog. @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social found similar errors in RFK's book on Fauci. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience. But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy. There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.