Would you qualify Dr Robert Malone as an "antivaxxer"?
Close enough
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Malone received criticism for propagating
COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the toxicity of
spike proteins generated by some
COVID-19 vaccines;
[2][17][4][29] using interviews on mass media to popularize medication with
ivermectin;
[30] and
tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.
[2] He said that
LinkedIn temporarily suspended his account over a post stating that the Chairman of the
Thomson Reuters Foundation was also a board member at
Pfizer, and other posts questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.
[31][32] Malone has also claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.
[1]
With another researcher, Malone successfully proposed to the publishers of
Frontiers in Pharmacology a special issue featuring early observational studies on existing medication used in the treatment of COVID-19, for which they recruited other guest editors, contributors, and reviewers. The journal rejected two of the papers selected: one on
famotidine co-authored by Malone and another submitted by physician
Pierre Kory on the use of
ivermectin.
[28] The publisher rejected the ivermectin paper due to what it stated were "a series of strong, unsupported claims" which they determined did "not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution."
[28] Malone and most other guest editors resigned in protest in April 2021, and the special issue has been pulled from the journal's website.
[28]
Malone has also been criticized for falsely claiming that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.[33]
On December 29, 2021,
Twitter permanently suspended Malone from its platform, citing "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy".
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