just as he predicted, kenderesi stepped into it, and was charged this month with a mutiny-related offence for his appearance last december at an anti-lockdown rally in downtown toronto.
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in may, a butcher shop in the greater toronto area banned the vaccinated for 28 days, post-vaccine, instructing jabbed customers to order online for curbside pickup or delivery only, despite assurances from experts that there is no biological path that would make the shedding of covid-19 vaccines possible. “it’s like asking me, do i think that if someone gets this vaccine that they could develop x-ray vision,” dr. paul offit, co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine told factcheck.org.
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“you can’t keep banging your head into the wall all the time, you know, saying, ‘i can’t reach everyone,’” joe schwarcz, director of mcgill university’s office for science and society told the tyee.
when researchers from the massachusetts institute of technology (mit) identified 2,000 users who shared false political news on twitter, and replied to their false tweets with links to fact-checking websites, being corrected increased the “partisan slant and language toxicity of the users’ subsequent re-tweets,” they wrote.
while many argue that trying to dissuade the anti-vaccine community is like arguing religion or politics, “a more constructive perspective could view the anti-vax movement as a religious phenomenon,” researchers from the london school of health and hygiene wrote in the lancet.
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others have accused the media of ignoring connections between anti-lockdown protests and far-right extremism.
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in a recent paper, he cites a 2019 analysis of available research that found no “backfire” effect. while it might occur in some circumstances, “it certainly isn’t such a robust and measurable phenomenon that it should stop us from mounting efforts to counter misinformation on social media,” he said.