/oss/taxonomy/term/4797/all en /oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/enough-make-scientists-cry <p>People have been asking about a video by anti-vaxxer Del Bigtree who claims that the COVID-19 vaccines have not been properly tested, made animals deathly ill in trials, and are ineffective and dangerous for humans. I'm not going to share the video here because it is ludicrous. Bigtree is a notorious conspiracy theorist with no medical background who spouts banalities left and right. The video that is making the rounds is a collage of misinformation and outright lies.</p> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:31:56 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8520 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/covid-19-nonsense-may-not-be-benign <p>There is a great deal of nonsense being spread about COVID-19. No matter how outrageous a claim, it gets traction with some people. It seems hard to believe that some actually believe that Bill Gates is bent on controlling the world by implanting people with microchips via vaccines or that Datura seeds can cure the disease because their shape resembles the coronavirus. Yet these beliefs are out there and they are not benign.</p> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:39:09 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8408 at /oss