# In which the Chicago Reader goes over to the dark side

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-chicago-reader-goes-over-to-the-dark-side/955158 "2021-11-29T20:14:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-chicago-reader-goes-over-to-the-dark-side/955158/1 "2021-11-29T20:14:02Z")

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The co-owner of the Chicago Reader (at least its for-profit arm), attorney Len Goodman, has authored an article in the Reader that denounces Covid-19 vaccination for children. It is full of the usual antivax glop/conspiracy theorizing, touts ivermectin and praises pseudoscientists (it also favorably cites Joe Rogan). Note the accompanying image of a child threatened by a giant syringe full of vaccine nasties.\*

> **[Vaxxing our kids - Chicago Reader](https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/opinion/vaxxing-our-kids/)**
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> I have tried my best to look objectively at the available evidence about the COVID-19 vaccine to make the best decision for my daughter.

An analysis of Goodman’s hogwash can be found here:

> **[Leonard C. Goodman lays down antivax tropes to argue against vaccinating...](https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11/29/goodman-parrots-antivaccine-tropes/)**
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> Leonard C. Goodman is a criminal defense attorney who is credulously parroting antivaccine disinformation for The Chicago Reader.

We should be grateful that the Straight Dope is no longer owned by the Reader, as it lessens the embarrassment of once having been connected to a publication whose quality standards have obviously plummeted.

\*Scary Needle Stuff is a staple of antivaxers, and also of anti-GMO types, whose articles have routinely featured a gloved hand holding a syringe full of ominously colored fluid which is about to be injected into an apple. 😱

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