Category Archives: Vaccines/Alternative Medicine

Masks and COVID vaccines were huge successes; ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were not

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Fallacy Man

COVID19 presented an unprecedented challenge for modern science/medicine. Faced with a novel infectious disease, doctors, scientists, and health officials rose to the challenge in remarkable speed. That rate at which we went from never having heard of COVID19 to having … Continue reading →

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How well do you understand placebo effects?

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Fallacy Man

“Placebo effect” is a term that almost everyone knows but few seem to understand. Misconceptions about placebo effects are rampant and usually center around the idea that a placebo effect occurs when you feel better because you thought a treatment … Continue reading →

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Debunking 30 bad arguments about COVID/vaccines

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Fallacy Man

The COVID era has been a golden age of misinformation. It has seen the development of innumerable false claims and shoddy arguments, and it has breathed new life into ancient anti-vaccine tropes. Indeed, I find it impossible to make any … Continue reading →

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Joe Rogan and the problem of false balance

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Fallacy Man

This is going to be a relatively short post because I only have one simple point that I want to make. Namely, “balance” does not mean presenting conspiracy theories and nonsense alongside facts as if they are equivalent. This is … Continue reading →

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Future (“long-term”) side effects from COVID vaccines are extremely unlikely

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Fallacy Man

Concern over unknown, future side effects is by far the most common reason I hear people give for why they aren’t vaccinating against COVID. At a quick glance, that may seem reasonable, but when you start really looking into the … Continue reading →

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