Category Archives: Vaccination

Get a COVID Vaccine Now

Posted on September 5, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

I don’t have much to add to this excellent piece by Sabrina Ambler about how to get a COVID vaccine in HHS Secretary Kennedy’s America (the piece isn’t behind a paywall and shouldn’t require email registration etc.). One important date … Continue reading →

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We Can’t Understand Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Without Tucker Carlson and Fox News

Posted on August 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, Dylan Scott at Vox attempted to explain how anti-vaccinationism arose (boldface mine): Well, for starters, even though anti-vaccine activism has existed for decades, the movement received a boost with the COVID-19 pandemic and the way it polarized people’s opinions … Continue reading →

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The Kennedy Op-Ed: Don’t Ignore the Dog Whistles

Posted on March 4, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy wrote an op-ed suggesting that parents vaccinate their kids with the MMR vaccine, and has widely been seen as a change of heart. But if you have been following anti-vaxxers for a long … Continue reading →

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The Partisan Gap on MMR Vaccines

Posted on September 29, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, a Washington Post article discussed some KFF polling data on U.S. attitudes towards vaccination. Most of the focus was on a huge partisan divide in willingness to get vaccinated for COVID, influenza, and RSV. But The Discourse missed what … Continue reading →

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Someone with Enough Money Needs to Challenge RFK Jr. and Rogan to Write a Peer Reviewed Article

Posted on June 30, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

In light of Joe Rogan’s absurd challenge to Peter Hotez to debate anti-vaxxer crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast, we need someone to fire back an equivalent challenge: Kennedy (and, if he wants, Rogan) should submit an article … Continue reading →

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Debate Me, Bro

Posted on June 21, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

While in Houston over the long weekend, I did manage to catch the whole ‘debate me bro’ harassment of Peter Hotez by anti-vaccination sympathizer and podcaster Joe Rogan. Dr Sky Skull blows apart the inanity of Rogan’s argument, so, fortunately, … Continue reading →

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A Glass Half-Empty on Attitudes on MMR Vaccination

Posted on February 24, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

A few days ago, YouGov released some polling data about people’s attitudes towards child vaccination requirements, asking specifically about ‘measles, mumps, and rubella’ (MMR), ‘infectious diseases’, and ‘COVID-19’. Here’s what they found:

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Some of Us Knew Anti-Vaxx Was Going to Be a Problem…

Posted on December 2, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

And nobody listened. A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted: Now that it’s finally starting to dawn on some of them that anti-vaccinationism is a real problem, they are suffering from ahistoricity. Listening to them, one would think … Continue reading →

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Anti-Vaccinationism Isn’t New. At All (On the Ahistoricity of the Modern Pundit)

Posted on October 15, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the darkly amusing phenomena of the pandemic has been watching Thinky Thought Leaders who’ve made a career out of knowing Econ101 and Stats101 and then broadcasting their HAWT TAEKS flounder around because they lack domain expertise and domain … Continue reading →

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Inchoate Conspiracies

Posted on September 10, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

We really need to understand that the most individual conspiracies aren’t coherent on their own, but allow conspiracists to plug in their own ‘facts’ (boldface mine): Instead, conspiracy theories are most effectively spread by a scattershot approach of supposition, question-begging, … Continue reading →

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