Here's a good rule of thumb: If the term "vaccine choice" or "informed consent" appears in the name of a vaccine-related organization, that organization is antivaccine. If there's an exception to this axiom, I have yet to see it in 20 years of combatting antivax misinformation.
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Replying to @gorskon
We disagree today :-). I am all for vaccine choice and informed consent - and I am certainly not antivaccine.
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Replying to @StabellBenn
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD
I suspect not. "Informed consent" as used by antivaxers doesn't mean the same thing it means when you or I use it. In reality it is misinformed consent.https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1100033474226987009 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskonReplying to @guiscaesarIt's what I Iike to refer to as "misinformed consent." Risks of vaccination are made up (e.g., autism, SIDS) or hugely exaggerated, while benefits are downplayed. The risk-benefit discussion is deceptively and grossly skewed against vaccines, hence "misinformed consent."2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @StabellBenn
Antivaxers co-opt the term "informed consent," but their version of it is a distorted fun house mirror reflection of real informed consent. What antivaxers mean by "informed consent" and what you or I mean by it are at best related only by coincidence.
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Replying to @gorskon @StabellBenn
I've been labeled as such. Informed consent is giving permission for a procedure or intervention when the risks, benefits and alternatives for said intervention are explained and known. Have I left out anything?
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Replying to @BlueLionBlog @StabellBenn
That is, of course, the issue. Antivaxers want to include in the informed consent discussion nonexistent risks from vaccines (e.g., autism, SIDS, asthma, diabetes) even though vaccines don't cause any of these, while downplaying benefits of vaccines. That's misinformed consent.
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Of course, by exaggerating the risks of vaccination far beyond what science justifies and downplaying the benefits, the (mis)informed consent discussion frightens parents out of vaccinating.
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