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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 10 Mar 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Christine Stabell Benn

      A bit of false equivalence here. After all, certain questions about vaccines have been studied to death (e.g., whether MMR increases the risk of autism), and the answer from large, well-designed studies is always no. Yet antivaxers keep saying "more study is needed."https://twitter.com/StabellBenn/status/1097227951979053056 …

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      Christine Stabell Benn @StabellBenn
      Replying to @KenneyPedersen @gorskon and 7 others
      I will continue to provoke (with the hope of also sparking a bit of reflection): There is an antivaccine movement, but there is also an almost religious provaccine movement and it is also a threat to public health: prematurely closing research questions and polarising the debate
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 10 Mar 2019

      Also, notice how Christine likens vaccine advocates to religion. That's how science denialists of all kinds (e.g., climate science deniers) like to portray science that doesn't support their beliefs. They want to portray conclusions based on strong science as faith, not science.

      8:50 AM - 10 Mar 2019
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      • Lady Love the $honeybee a.k.a. u/21745 Tim Strabala Margie happily AZ vaxxed Vitor Vieira blah Quackery WatchDog Fully Vaccinated Jon necronom Kelly
      4 replies 10 retweets 68 likes
        1. George R.‏ @notincomunicado 10 Mar 2019
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          This is absolutely true. Even flat-earthers like to call the knowledge that the Earth is a globe a "religious belief". Science deniers of all types have a need to project their own failings so as to make themselves look less extreme than they really are.

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        1. proxima ratio‏ @proximaratio 10 Mar 2019
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          If science is a kind of religion then off is a kind of tv-channel

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        1. Bob Blaskiewicz‏ @rjblaskiewicz 10 Mar 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @lizditz

          I was just thinking about how the parents of the boy with tetanus were like goddamned snake handlers. Hell so are chicken pox party parents.

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        1. Heptaglemious‏ @heptaglemious 10 Mar 2019
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          Most scientists will not investigate something unless there’s good reason to think it’s true, and a plausible mechanism. They don’t investigate many antivax claims for the same reason they don’t investigate homeopathy.

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