A new preliminary study published in Nature suggests that COVID-19 vaccines might actually boost the immune system to make immunotherapy more effective. If confirmed in followup studies, this result suggests that the vaccines do the opposite of causing "turbo cancer." The post The opposite of “turbo cancer”: COVID-19 vaccines sensitize cancer to immunotherapy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the "scientists" there are antivax scientists about whom I've been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again. The post RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 4: Aluminum edition (or: Everything old is new again…again) first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves that RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows that, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn't do that much to improve global health. The post Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
Last week, it was reported that Mark Blaxill had been hired at CDC. It looks like RFK Jr.'s resurrecting every washed up antivax crony he can find to staff HHS. The post Mark Blaxill: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resurrects another washed-up antivax activist first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
An eminent oncologist, cancer researcher, and cancer center director is promoting a study that seems to show—but, when critically examined, doesn't—that COVID vaccines are associated with increased cancer risk. The post Here we go again: Another study is being misrepresented as evidence that COVID vaccines cause cancer first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
The Food and Drug Administration appears to be about to weaponize a classic antivax trope against COVID-19 vaccines, the abuse of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System to falsely portray them as deadly, even as news reports suggest that RFK Jr. will further restrict access to COVID-19 and three childhood vaccines. Here we go again. The post Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 2: VAERS, the FDA, and ACIP first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves that RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows t| Science-Based Medicine
