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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. Matthew Brignall, ND‏ @drbrignall 28 Aug 2019
      Replying to @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats

      Because that is an idiotic thing to say. You are flaunting the fact that your family benefits from herd immunity. I cannot fathom being that selfish.

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    2. Jeremy R. Hammond‏ @jeremyrhammond 29 Aug 2019
      Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats

      It is idiotic to describe as "idiotic" my having corrected those who were of the false belief that vaccines are required for good health.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Matthew Brignall, ND‏ @drbrignall 29 Aug 2019
      Replying to @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats

      Talking to you is about as productive as trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. You are the only one who is saying this bullshit strawman argument. Kath and I are saying that free riders are breaking our prevention programs. Risk / benefit is shifting.

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    4. Jeremy R. Hammond‏ @jeremyrhammond 29 Aug 2019
      Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats

      Now you're deflecting again. Why don't you just acknowledge that I was right to correct those who were expressing their false belief that vaccines are required for good health? Why is that so hard for you?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Matthew Brignall, ND‏ @drbrignall 29 Aug 2019
      Replying to @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats

      You may in fact be the most frustrating person I've ever met. There are people who are healthy who are unvaccinated. I'll see one at my clinic today, possibly. But when measles or polio comes to town, they are at greater risk, and as children, they didn't consent to it.

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    6. Jeremy R. Hammond‏ @jeremyrhammond 29 Aug 2019
      Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats

      Actually, when measles comes to town, your infant and older adult patients will be at higher risk BECAUSE OF mass vaccination, as I've tried to educate you about, but which you refuse to learn.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Aug 2019
      Replying to @jeremyrhammond @drbrignall @kath2cats

      Actually, that's total nonsense. You're misapplying an idea - those who do get measles now are those, by definition, who are more at risk. However the MAJORITY of the at-risk population is safe BECAUSE OF mass vaccination

      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    8. Jeremy R. Hammond‏ @jeremyrhammond 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @drbrignall @kath2cats

      You're mistaken. Far from "nonsense", the phenomenon I've just described is acknowledged by leading experts in the field in the scientific literature.

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    9. Matthew Brignall, ND‏ @drbrignall 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @jeremyrhammond @GidMK @kath2cats

      How dare you cite the leading experts in vaccine science when you have spent the last two weeks trying to tear down their credibility?

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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @drbrignall @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats

      Somewhat. He's just taking a single sentence from a 1994 paper that doesn't really support his argument and misapplying it in what I can only assume is mostly ignorance of the literature as a whole

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @drbrignall and

      It's funny, because the argument "the measles death/cases ratio is higher now than in the 1970s" is arguable, but not entirely incorrect. The extrapolation to "that means that elderly and infants are MORE AT RISK" is just totally wrong and laughable

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        1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 31 Aug 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @drbrignall and

          The number of elderly/infants who die now from measles per year is a tiny fraction (<1.5%) of the number in the 70s, but the PROPORTION is slightly higher due to mass vaccination so he's arguing that they are more likely to die due to vaccines

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