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    Michael Hiltzik: A bogus new attack on COVID vaccines from Texas' least credible politician

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Dec 07, 2023 5 minutes
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022.

    In recent times, whenever a government lawsuit swears at common sense, at the facts and at the public interest, it has been a safe bet that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has his fingerprints on it.

    Sure enough, here comes Paxton with a lawsuit charging Pfizer Inc. with systematically misrepresenting the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine and attempting to censor public discussion about it.

    "The COVID vaccines are the miracle that wasn't," Paxton states in the very first line of the lawsuit, filed Nov. 30 in state court in Lubbock. "Placing their trust in Pfizer, hundreds of millions of Americans lined up to receive the vaccine.... However, the pandemic did not end; it got worse."

    There's a lot of misinformation and disinformation packed into the 54 pages of Paxton's legal complaint, some of it so nonsensical as to evoke laughter, starting with the fact that the reasons the

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