Dr. Sean Gallagher

@TheKidKidDoc

Pediatrician, Husband, Middle Child, Ohioan, Millennial, + , Child Advocate; writes :

Ohio, USA
Joined July 2016

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    13 Nov 2017

    "The toddler who died was not vaccinated against the flu virus, according to officials." 85% of children killed by flu aren't vaccinated. The decreases a child's chance of dying from flu by 65%

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    4 hours ago
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  3. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    An older post, but with the recent news of amber necklaces strangulating babies, maybe it will help parents realize that by throwing them away they're not going to hear more cries of teething pain.

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  4. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    When I applied to medical school I had to provide an immunisation record and get titres tested.

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  5. Jan 4

    What doesn’t understand is that correlation doesn’t equal causation. You’d have to compare vaccinated vs unvaccinated children... which has been done: NO LINK BETWEEN VACCINES AND AUTISM.

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 4
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    That's as ethical as a study done on carseats where you buckle in 1/2 of a large study group and just chuck the other half into the backseat. The kids that get thrown through the windshield would be TOTALLY worth it for the data.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 3
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    Correlation is not causation

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 3
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    It isn’t vaccines. It’s most definitely organic food causing autism.

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 4
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    Here a great website showing really funny but spurious correlations, like did you know there's a very strong correlation between US spending on science and suicides by hanging?

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Yay - I love this game! What else has a CORRELATION w this timeline? -Rise of Starbucks...your am latte is to blame -Marvel Studios...wait, is this Iron Man's fault? -Social media...your tweets have consequences Those w low literacy often confuse correlation w causation

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    😂😂😂 How about a doctor who has credulously promoted homeopathy, worthless weight loss supplements, faith healing, unfounded health scares, psychics as grief counselors, and all manner of quackery on national TV for many years now? 😂😂😂

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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Amen. We are chipping away at the misperception of juice as a healthful beverage but it feels like a game of Stomp-a-Mole. Industry keeps finding ways to sneak sweetened beverages into kids’ diets.WIC also perpetuates the successful business model of juice.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    But “spider bite” sound soooo much more exotic and dramatic than “MRSA abscess”...

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    In 2016, there were 86 cases of measles in the *entire* U.S. The current outbreak in Rockland County, NY just surpassed 102 cases.

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    It's impossible to avoid an article, social media post, or discussion about health related issues. Non-evidence based opinions inevitably appear, and often veer into denialism. How many of these examples have you seen recently? They. Are. Everywhere.

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  16. Jan 4

    The irony is never higher than when a "homeopath," "naturopath," or chiropractor blows up my twitter demanding unethical studies on . The evidence is already there; they aren't trained to understand it. On what "evidence" are their fields based?

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    Jan 4
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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    A meta-analysis does explicitly define the criteria the studies included, the methods, the analysis & the results. You know this, don’t you?

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    Jan 3
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    Jan 4
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    There was a study done in Denmark. Half a million children looked at retrospectively comparing vaccinated and not. It found the the relative risk of autism was slightly less in the vaccinated group. The studies you ask for are already out there.

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  21. Jan 3

    Nothing says “I can’t understand the study you shared” like ignoring current research + scientific consensus and demanding unethical studies. seems to think this makes them sound informed. It suggests anything but.

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