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To sum up : ... "they have shunned fundamental and scientifically sound pharmaceutical intervention. The trend is also fueled by a contradictory pairing: families’ fierce desire to protect their babies and a cascade of false information infused into their social media algorithms."

How do I say "fuck off" in Portuguese? Google tells me it's "vai se foder."

People, by & large, are ignorant, gullible morons.

Their fight is to save fetuses. Babies are on their own.

my kids got them 1989 and 1991.

Started in the '60s.

Charge him with murder

(The data have always been clear.)

Isn't listening to and believing a piece of shit indicative of genetic abnormality that needs to be removed from the gene pool, as per Darwin's Laws? Maybe people like him, Trump, Robert Kennedy, Dr. Brix, Dr. Oz are helping remove future MAGAts from the gene pool?

Please stop using the word "skeptic" to describe a science denier. A skeptic is someone who proportions their beliefs of claims to the evidence that supports those claims. A science denier is the farthest thing from a Skeptic.

Well now, there's a bit of blood on his hands. Glad he's seen the light but there's that blood.

Charge him with negligent homicide or something.

These fucking scammers

Mercola is behind this? Hope he’s sued into oblivion -

so how many children had to die before he changed his stance?

But he still has all those babies' blood on his hands.

Well, let’s make sure no republicans get the shot

He's got blood on his hands already and will be responsible for more despite this reversal.

Some people are so consumed by jealousy over the profits from the vaccine that they don’t even consider whether it’s actually effective

Impeach RFK,Jr.

What a stupid man! Science proved the effectiveness of the shots and he ignored it. And children died as a result.

His ego driven attention seeking should have consequences for him not just the babies of parents that trust Drs

I truly detest idiots like this guy who provide fake info, yet calls himself a doctor, even more than I do the idiots like RFK Jr. who know nothing. Hospitals have been giving babies the vitamin K shot since 1961! He has no excuse.

What. A. Douchbag.

Wow.

South Korea (like Brazil) shames America by showing the courage that American Conservatives ... do not have www.newser.com/story/387943...

we've know this for decades. why wait for this one jackass to see what he should have known eons ago. .

And it’s just a vitamin and a baby doesn’t know that a needle is bad and it’s a split second little sting and it’s over. They would barely be aware of it.

Wonder how many died because of what he said?

Well done ProPublica! Thank you.

Verdict: PASS — The Path of Redemption. While the previous harm was significant, the public reversal and correction of the record is a necessary step toward accountability.

Sacrifice babies first, THEN the data gets clear. That's a man for you.

Another one of the worst humans on the planet.

He should be held liable for medical malpractice occasioning death of a child. Fucking criminal LIAR.

Thank you @propublica.org for your work on this story. Your work is going to save children's lives, and save their parents from a lifetime of guilt and grief. You're a shining example of the power of independent media.

America is all about money making. Human lives are expendable before the almighty dollar.

Covering his ass

Babies dying= more data. To him.

In other words, he knows these shots are necessary, but was pushing the pseudo science anyway and is only reversing course now because there's a chance he could get held liable for it. Coward and fraud.

This needs to be spread.

If only he'd gotten the enlightenment sooner.

What a great doctor. He needed to see enough dead babies as proof that the shots are necessary.

You'd think a doctor would look at the massive research at his disposal before opening his piehole on a stage in favor of killing babies. Bet he is pro-life too.

How many newborns died because their parents followed Mercola's misinformation and refused vitamin K injections for their babies?

Sadly, a day late and a dollar short. Babies died.

Yes I said shot. I only mentioned vaccines because he’s a vaccine denier.

A little late for the dead babies 👶

Dr Mercola listened to the science after multiple babies bled to death because he recommended skipping the vitamin K shot to the parents of newborns. He does not get a prize for this. He should be stripped of his medical license.

How do these quacks gain such influence?

Almost thought his last name was…. mengele. I mean he acts like that scumbag murderer

Scare mongering for some academic publicity. All fun and games until real lives were put at risk.

Too late..............no mercy for the bastard who caused so much grief.

He is a medical doctor. A trained physician. How many infant deaths did it take for him to FINALLY recognize the importance of these shots? These are, supposedly, educated people. How do they fall for this anti-vax nonsense??

But babies had to die before he’d trust the science of people who came before him.

Ya know, there is a perfectly natural reason why most of these people are refusing to have their babies and children treated with proven medical science. And why they flock to unproven and often dangerous or deadly treatments. It's called Natural Selection, just weeding out the stupid.

That's manslaughter walking free cause he got a platform instead of a courtroom.

Mmmm, the US got a whole nope collection it don't advertise.

Carry on..

Fuck that. Revoke his license to practice medicine and slap him with malpractice.

Mercola pushed a LOT of stupid and sometimes mutually contradictory conspiracy theories to push his products. I remember watching his page and see him slowly cull some reviews and replace them with things that "looked slicker". Not an honest man in the first place.

Too late, the damage is done. He should be in jail for manslaughter.

So, he's a doctor but couldn't extrapolate the outcome? He needed to see real babies die? Jfc. Who's handing out these medical degrees?

Another maga-grifter....

How many babies did he kill

"Now that Ive killed several of them, I change my mind".

He’s a doctor. He has access to the research and science. He didn’t have to fuck it up in order to understand the consequences. He should be up on a manslaughter charge.

So how many babies did you kill, Dr?

A dissenting hypothesis that goes against accepted standards should always be weighed against the evidence even if someone has a Ph.D behind their name.

Too little, too late...

That's not much consolation to the parents who lost their babies because they listened to him.

Anyone stupid enough to follow this quack deserves what they get

America's children are dying from RFK Jr's running of Health & Human Services, meanwhile he is protected from accountability because of America's qualified immunity.

In a just world, he would lose his license

He should be tried criminally for the death of those babies

Typical...arrogant opinion faces data and fact. Kids died, now he is on board.

This man needs to get EPICALLY motivated to reach all the loonies in the boonies who have never even heard of him but still loosely quote his "findings" as they continue to spread disinfo and fear to their neighbors, fam, and friends. Cause that is *still* spreading like a virus

Science works.

Of course vitamin k saves infants lives .

I used to subscribe to Dr. Mercola and unsubscribed when he got political. I will hand him this- I have seen him reverse positions on issues in the past when new data became available. That does not mean i agree with him on anything or everything, but I acknowledge some intellectual honesty.

There should be consequences for this type of grifting. It’ll never happen but it should.

As long as his online store is successfully pushing his supplements, he’s fine.

He helped kill those babies

What a charlatan. My brother and his wife follow him and take his fucking supplements religiously. And he is a sort of cult leader.

ONLY after tiny baies died. Their blood is on his hands.

Oh, now he reversed his opinion. Too little, too late.

Ghoul

It's a vitamin! What part of vitamin K don't they understand! Babies need this to survive! People are stupid. Maybe the stupid people who don't listen to science deserve to have their bloodlines end here. Natural selection.

And how many had to die before this quack changed his brain-addled pov? Revoke his license to practice. 🤡

The light of reason and science will always illuminate the darkness that is ignorance and religion

It's interesting to see how many people think of the parents as victims and not as people with agency who made poor choices.

That was quick, and it took the death of children.

This quack needs to have his medical license revoked.

and…?

So is he turning himself in to pay for the lives he ended by misleading people?

You guys are literal miracle workers!

Parents have to live with the decisions they make if they don't believe in proven medical science.

These skeptics need to be struck off as doctors. The damage done in mere months is catastrophic, not only for the babies that needlessly died but for family units that have now suffered unimaginable loss due to the skeptics peddling their bs.

No shit

I guarantee he didn't even write it himself. Mercola has been a scammy huckster for decades, and I am sure some minimum wage intern type wrote that and he slapped his name on it. Why? To sell his bullshit newsletter and supplements.

Licensing board. It's like the licensing board for lawyers just letting them go wild with inappropriate practice...see Todd Blanche.

If he is a DO, his license might be different from MD. I am not sure whether AMA has jurisdiction in DO license. I read he is a doctor of osteopathic.

State licensing boards are NOTORIOUS for dragging their feet on these issues. It is terrible

I did not know that, thank you. My error for not researching before posting.

Ah, he's a DO and not a real doctor. That makes a lot of sense as to why he is the way he is.

What kind of a "doctor" was he when he did not know this medical information beforehand?? A publicity seeking fraud??

How many children's lives did this doctor damage or destroy when the science was settled decades ago?

But, why are parents so stupid to not trust science and listen to these outsiders?

Why is he still free and not being lynched?