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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

      It never ceases to amuse me how desperately @alexberezow of @ACSHorg tries to link antivaxers to the "progressive left." The fact is, antivax beliefs have *always* spanned the political spectrum, based on different reasons depending on left or right. 1/ https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/28/when-english-major-becomes-health-editor-13239 …pic.twitter.com/619LehyvGN

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

      Certainly Andrew Wakefield, father of the modern antivaccine movement, was not a "progressive." Let's not forget Dan Burton, who spent the 1990s and early 2000s holding bogus congressional hearings on "vaccine safety." 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/11/23/representative-dan-burtons-last-antivaccine-hurrah-is-scheduled-for-november-29/ …

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

      The myth that antivaccine views are somehow unique to the "left" is so pervasive that even @TheDailyShow got it wrong a few years ago. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/06/04/the-daily-show-hilarious-segment-about-vaccines-not-so-hilariously-wrong-about-the-politics-of-vaccine-denialism/ …

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

      Yes, it's true that @billmaher and @RobertKennedyJr are progressives who are antivaccine. No one's arguing that. But they didn't start the antivaccine movement. Antivaccine activism long predates them. There's no evidence antivax is primarily left wing. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/05/09/motivated-reasoning-and-the-anti-vaccine/ …

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

      What @alexberezow and @ACSHorg find so uncomfortable is that, TODAY, in 2018, the loudest and most dangerous voices from the antivaccine movement are inarguably coming from the right, such as from @RandPaul. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/03/is-republican-party-becoming-antivaccine-party/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

          In Texas, antivaxers have weaponized the message of "freedom" and opposition to government regulation and thus brought in right wing activist groups to lobby against vaccine mandates. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-the-age-of-donald-trump-vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized-with-potentially-deadly-consequences/ …

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

          Just. three weeks ago, @NVICLoeDown wrote a 4th of July antivaccine message ranting about "freedom" and how vaccine mandates are an unacceptable assault on liberty. 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/07/06/belated-july-4-antivaccine-rant-about-zero-tolerance-vaccine-laws-courtesy-of-barbara-loe-fishe/ …

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

          Two years ago, @delbigtree was giving speeches while promoting @vaxxedthemovie with @teamvaxxed to groups like @MIVaxFreedomPAC and @MI4VaxChoice in which he invoked the American Revolution and talked about dying for vaccine freedom. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/10/28/nobody-promotes-antivaccine-nonsense-in-my-statewithout-receiving-some-insolence-2016-election-edition/ …

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

          Indeed, @TXforVaxChoice explicitly invokes conservative/libertarian themes in its activism against vaccine mandates and its use of antivaccine misinformation and pseudoscience to promote its view. 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/07/07/vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Jul 2018

          To sum up, antivax beliefs are indeed common on the left, but they're just as common on the right, and, RIGHT NOW IN 2018, the loudest, most powerful, most dangerous antivaccine voices are almost all coming from the right. 10/10

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