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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 17 Jan 2019

      Let's try this again. For some reason, @twitter screwed up the threading on this Tweetstorm about Dr. Andrew Zimmerman. So I'm going to try it again. In the process, hopefully I can make it better than the previous version, which for some reason got broken up sorting posting.

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted UMass Medical School

      Dr. Zimmerman issued a press release in response to @SharylAttkisson's @FullMeasureNews antivax propaganda disguised as a news story. He claims he's been "misrepresented." While the SIGNIFICANCE of his affidavit WAS misrepresented, its content was not. 1/https://twitter.com/umassmedical/status/1085574740255883264 …

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      UMass Medical SchoolVerified account @UMassMedical
      Replying to @maggiemfox @PeterHotez @thehill
      Here is Dr. Zimmerman's statement: pic.twitter.com/J88SdhoYxP
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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

      To recap, Dr. Zimmerman, at @RobertKennedyJr's request, provided an affidavit in which he stated that @TheJusticeDept lawyers defending @HHSGov in the Autism Omnibus "fired" him as a testifying expert witness. 2/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

      This "firing" occurred, according to Dr. Zimmerman, because he had told @TheJusticeDept attorneys defending the Autism Omnibus that he'd come to believe there was an exception to the science saying that vaccines don't cause autism, children with mitochondrial disorders. 3/

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

      Consequently, Dr. Zimmerman's expert opinion was used in the Autism Omnibus, but he himself did not testify. @RobertKennedyJr used Zimmerma's affidavit stating such to spin an antivax conspiracy theory of the government "suppressing" his evidence of a vaccine-autism link. 4/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

      This conspiracy theory peddled by @RobertKennedyJr is—surprise, surprise!—without merit or a basis in fact, other than half-truths and massive exaggeration of the significance of Dr. Zimmerman to the government case in the Autism Omnibus. 5/https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/anti-vaccine-activists-revive-hannah-poling-case …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Basically, @RobertKennedyJr tried to make it sound as though Dr. Zimmerman's expert opinion was the lynchpin upon which the government's case in the Autism Omnibus proceedings depended and that if he had been allowed to testify the government would have lost. 6/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          In reality, Dr. Zimmerman's expert opinion was barely mentioned in the Special Masters' rulings and then mainly in passing as supporting the testimony of other experts who did testify. 7/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          This brings us to @SharylAttkisson. She merely regurgitated @RobertKennedyJr's conspiracy theory based on Dr. Zimmerman's affidavit in her antivax propaganda piece disguised as a news report. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/01/09/sharyl-attkisson-is-back/ …

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          It turns out that @SharylAttkisson also has a history of spewing antivaccine misinformation going back AT LEAST to 2007. 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2007/06/19/antivaccination-crankery-on-the-cbs-news-1/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          She's also a big fan of @DrWakefield, the disgraced, struck-off antivaccine "researcher" who ignited the whole scare about the MMR vaccine as a cause of autism 21 years ago. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2009/10/08/complain-to-cbs-cbs-resident-anti-vaccin/ …

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          That's not all. @SharylAttkisson has written at least one hit piece sliming @DrPaulOffit. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/07/28/more-execrable-journalism-about-vaccines/ …

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          She's also been suspected of feeding inside information from CBS News to an antivaccine group in the past. 12/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/08/01/sharyl-attkisson-of-cbs-and-generation-r/ …

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          More recently, @SharylAttkisson has been palling around with @DrWakefield, @delbigtree, and members of @teamvaxxed, the makers of @vaxxedthemovie, an antivaccine propaganda movie disguised as a documentary. 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/04/26/the-conspiracy-circle-is-complete-brian-hooker-claims-the-man-has-gotten-to-the-cdc-whistleblower/ …

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Here's my review of @vaxxedthemovie, along with a deconstruction of its antivaccine conspiracy theories. It's propaganda so blatant that it would make Leni Riefenstahl shake her head and say, "Too much." 14/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/18/in-which-andrew-wakefield-and-del-bigtrees-antivaccine-documentary-vaxxed-is-reviewed-with-insolence/ …

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        11. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Now, ever since the Hannah Poling case, Dr. Zimmerman has been friendly with antivaxers and, according to his own press release, has been asked to testify on their behalf to say that vaccines + mitochondrial disease = autism. 15/

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        12. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          As I said at the time antivaxers were flogging the case, trying to link mitochondrial disease as a predisposition to "vaccine-induced autism" is not scientifically supported. 16/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/03/10/the-hannah-poling-case-and-the-rebrandin/ …

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        13. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          So I ask Dr. Zimmerman: When @RobertKennedyJr approached you and asked you for an affidavit, what the hell did you think would happen? Of course, RFK, Jr. publicized it! Of course, other antivaxers tried to use it to spin their conspiracy theories of coverups! 17/

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        14. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Dr. Zimmerman says he's not antivaccine, and I'll take him at his word. However, he has aided and abetted real antivaxers. At worst, he's slipping into being antivax. At best he's been (and continues to be) a useful idiot for antivaxers. 18/

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        15. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Let's just put it this way. You lie down with dogs, and got might get fleas. Of course, comparing antivaxers to dogs is an insult to dogs. (I love dogs. I need a better metaphor.) Dr. Zimmerman had no right to complain that he's itching right now. He chose this. 19/

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        16. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          I'll finish by challenging Dr. Zimmerman through @UMassMedical: How, specifically, did @SharylAttkisson "misrepresent" you. Please provide concrete examples. I predict that you won't be able to. 20/

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        17. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Also, so being a useful idiot for antivaxers. 21/

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        18. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          And, there it is. Let's see if @Twitter threads this revised and expanded Tweetstorm properly. 22/22

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        19. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Jan 2019

          Yay! It appears to have threaded correctly. Maybe it's using the iOS client as opposed to the web client, which is what I did the first time.

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