Red herring. I never said that it helped. I said that there isn't enough data to justify that the antivax movement is the cause of recent outbreaks, thus resulting in scapegoating.
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Replying to @alc_anthro @gorskon
I’m asking why you would oppose people speaking out against the anti-vax movement regardless of any other mysterious causes of outbreaks in areas with high school vaccine exemption rates like we have repeatedly seen? How would that benefit anybody doing that?
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#ubervax movement is a bunch of half educated, half baked tools, who don't know the first thing about epidemiology, and who are too busy looking for an easy answer to this problem.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Half-educated? Now I’m gonna ask for those credentials, playboy.
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About 12,000 hours of formal college training, spanning much of STEAM, including the mathematics necessary to understand epidemiology.
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Do you even have a basic grasp of probability and graph theory? What about dynamical systems? Differential equations?
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Replying to @alc_anthro @UrbaneDoc4Kids and
If you don't understand those topics, you can't properly understand epidemiology. In any case, I have more formal education than a person who might burn through a doctorate degree. It's spread out, because I went for breadth. But that allows me to see the bigger picture.
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Replying to @alc_anthro @UrbaneDoc4Kids and
Well, I'm an epidemiologist and I'd say that your analysis is based on some inaccurate assumptions, and you're mostly fighting a strawman because of it. Anti-vax sentiment is not the 'only' cause of kids not getting vaccinated, and this is well-recognized in the literature
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Replying to @GidMK @alc_anthro and
The problem with using NIS data is that it's not always possible to get granular detail on pockets of vaccine-refusal, and these are the biggest issues in terms of disease outbreaks
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This is because herd immunity is compromised below a threshold, which for measles is extremely high. So a relatively small number of kids who aren't vaccinated can infect quite a few people
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Replying to @GidMK @alc_anthro and
But regardless of this, there is are numerous programs that focus on fixing the other vaccination issues - poverty, lack of access etc - but that doesn't mean that anti-vaccine advocacy is any less of an issue
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Replying to @GidMK @UrbaneDoc4Kids and
Can you two even show that measles vaccines are even capable of producing herd immunity?
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