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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Daniel Goldman‏ @alc_anthro 26 Feb 2019
      Replying to @JOEWV @gorskon

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    2. JoeWV‏ @JOEWV 26 Feb 2019
      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?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Daniel Goldman‏ @alc_anthro 26 Feb 2019
      Replying to @JOEWV @gorskon

      Because the #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
    4. Byron Whyte, MD‏ @UrbaneDoc4Kids 26 Feb 2019
      Replying to @alc_anthro @JOEWV @gorskon

      Half-educated? Now I’m gonna ask for those credentials, playboy.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Daniel Goldman‏ @alc_anthro 27 Feb 2019
      Replying to @UrbaneDoc4Kids @JOEWV @gorskon

      About 12,000 hours of formal college training, spanning much of STEAM, including the mathematics necessary to understand epidemiology.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Byron Whyte, MD‏ @UrbaneDoc4Kids 27 Feb 2019
      Replying to @alc_anthro @JOEWV

      pic.twitter.com/8ijTG4NFEf

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Daniel Goldman‏ @alc_anthro 27 Feb 2019
      Replying to @UrbaneDoc4Kids @JOEWV @gorskon

      Do you even have a basic grasp of probability and graph theory? What about dynamical systems? Differential equations?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Daniel Goldman‏ @alc_anthro 27 Feb 2019
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Feb 2019
      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Feb 2019
      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Feb 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @alc_anthro and

      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

      2:56 PM - 27 Feb 2019
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Feb 2019
          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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        3. Daniel Goldman‏ @alc_anthro 27 Feb 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @UrbaneDoc4Kids and

          Can you two even show that measles vaccines are even capable of producing herd immunity?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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