David Gorski
Surgical oncologist who writes about medical misinformation, anti-vaccine claims and alternative medicine. Blogs at Respectful Insolence under the pen name Orac and is managing editor of Science-Based Medicine.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous.
He is utterly convinced that he is correct and that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous.
respectfulinsolence.comSaid 31 Aug 2026This on korrents
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The number of antigens children receive today is significantly lower than it was decades ago.
even though there are more vaccines, the design and manufacture of vaccines are much more precise, such that the number of antigens children receive today by age 4 is at least 25-fold fewer than it was 30-40 years ago even as children receive vaccines against many more diseases.
respectfulinsolence.comSaid 11 Aug 2026This on korrents
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous.
He is utterly convinced that he is correct and that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous.
Skip to the content Said 31 Aug 2026
The number of antigens children receive today is significantly lower than it was decades ago.
even though there are more vaccines, the design and manufacture of vaccines are much more precise, such that the number of antigens children receive today by age 4 is at least 25-fold fewer than it was 30-40 years ago even as children receive vaccines against many more diseases.
Skip to the content Said 11 Aug 2026
Delaying the hepatitis B birth dose will likely lead to more cases of hepatitis B and liver cancer.
The only likely effect of delaying the birth dose, as this administration has been trying to do, will be more cases of hepatitis B and, decades from now, more cases of liver cancer, the most deadly late complication of chronic hepatitis B infection.
Skip to the content Said 11 Aug 2026
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The anti-vaccine movement is becoming more radicalized.
It suggests to me that CHD is the past and that more radical antivax groups are the present and the future, which is profoundly depressing to think about.
Skip to the content Said 10 Nov 2025
RFK Jr. is actively working to dismantle US federal health and vaccination programs.
Sadly, though, his denials of being antivax fooled enough Senators-or at least gave them sufficient plausible deniability-to allow them to tell themselves that they were not confirming a nominee for HHS Secretary who would immediately start dismantling US federal health and vaccination programs, which is exactly what RFK Jr. immediately proceeded to do after being confirmed as HHS Secretary, almost exactly as I'd predicted that he would.
Skip to the content Said 10 Nov 2025
RFK Jr. is using a modified version of evidence-based medicine to attack vaccines.
Indeed, since taking over the reins of HHS, RFK Jr. has weaponized a funhouse version of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) paradigm against vaccines, misrepresented medical ethics to attack vaccines, dismantled the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), replacing the experts with antivaxxers, who immediately turned the committee into a clown car barreling through the vaccine schedule.
Skip to the content Said 10 Nov 2025
The current US federal health leadership will lead to the decline of US leadership in biomedical research and public health.
They are truly the Four Horsemen that herald the end of US leadership in biomedical research, public health, and medical advancements in favor of bad science, pseudoscience, quackery, and, yes, antivax nonsense.
Skip to the content Said 24 Sept 2025
There is no autism epidemic.
remind you that there is no "autism epidemic," as claimed over and over again by everyone who spoke at this presser.
Skip to the content Said 24 Sept 2025
The scientific consensus is that there is no link between acetaminophen use in early pregnancy and autism spectrum disorders.
In brief, again, the overall scientific consensus is currently that there does not appear to be a link between acetaminophen use in early pregnancy and autism spectrum disorders.
Skip to the content Said 24 Sept 2025
The VAERS database is subject to reporting bias and is not a reliable source for determining the actual prevalence of adverse events over time.
VAERS is not a good data source for looking at changes in actual prevalence of an adverse event over time, for the simple reason that the database is very much subject to reporting bias.
Skip to the content Said 21 Jul 2025
Vaccination may be protective against SIDS because infections are associated with an increased risk of SIDS.
Indeed, if anything, the scientific consensus is that vaccination is likely protective given that infection seems to be associated with an increased risk of SIDS or to serve as a precipitating factors, leading to recommendations from various government health agencies (e.g., the UK's NHS), medical professional societies (e.g., the American Academy of Pediatrics and the French National College of Midwives) that keeping babies up-to-date on their immunizations minimize the risk of SIDS.
Skip to the content Said 21 Jul 2025
A significant proportion of SIDS deaths are actually accidental suffocations related to sleep position.
Another important fact to impart is that the risk of SIDS is very much increased by sleep position, as a proportion of SIDS deaths are in reality accidental suffocations.
Skip to the content Said 21 Jul 2025
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Blog Respectful Insolence Long posts on anti-vaccine claims, quackery and health policy
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Link verified 24 Oct 2026.
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