The spread of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation has become one of the defining public health challenges of our time — so dangerous that it prompted the California legislature to make the practice grounds for revoking a doctor’s license.
But what can we do when this pseudoscientific claptrap comes from an agency of a state government, dressed up as a public health recommendation?
The question arises from a new vaccine recommendation issued by Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general. Ladapo has been labeled a “quack” and a “COVID crank.” If there has been any doubt that these labels are justified, they should be dispelled by his latest action.
This is the first time that we’ve seen a state government weaponize bad science to spread anti-vaccine disinformation as official policy.
— David Gorski, pseudoscience debunker
In a “guidance” issued Friday, Ladapo recommended against males aged 18-39 receiving the mRNA vaccines for COVID. These are the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines most widely used in the United States.
To justify his recommendation, Ladapo referred to a study purporting to show an elevated risk of cardiac-related death among males in that age range within 28 days of receiving the vaccines.
As numerous qualified professionals have pointed out, however, the study is so sloppy and incoherent that it amounts to a monument of pseudoscience.
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