The Weaponization of Pseudoscience: When "Diverse Viewpoints" Undermine Public Health
The critical distinction between asking legitimate questions (the bedrock of scientific inquiry) and the deliberate refutation of established scientific knowledge.
Vaccines and Autoimmunity: Separating Fact from Fiction
Vaccines trigger a protective immune response against infectious foreign pathogens that invade from outside the body, rather than targeting self antigens within.
Vaccines, Immunology, COVID-19 and debunking the misinformation in between. Click to read Deplatform Disease, by Edward Nirenberg, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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