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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 15 Mar 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Jane Orient, MD

      Dr. Orient is very silly. She's also doing what @AAPSonline does when it comes to vaccines and disguising its support of antivaccine pseudoscience. However, I thank her for once again giving me the opportunity to remind people how antivax AAPS is. 1/https://twitter.com/jorient/status/1106535917613793286 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Jane Orient, MD @jorient
      Replying to @gorskon @AAPSonline
      Are you pro censorship? With yourself as Grand Inquisitor?
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

      Let's go way back to when I first noticed @AAPSonline. The following is a 2008 update of a 2006 blog post in which I first noticed the antivaccine and other crank views of AAPS. 2/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-journal-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-ideology-trumps-science-based-medicine/ …

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

      Notice how @AAPSonline has been promoting the discredited myth that vaccines cause autism for a long time. It also promoted the vile lie that vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), when, if there's any link between the two, it's the opposite. 3/

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Indeed, @AAPSonline also routinely published Mark and David Geier's pseudoscience and horrible science about mercury in vaccines. 4/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Also, more than once @AAPSonline promoted the particularly vile claim that shaken baby syndrome (as it was called at the time) is a misdiagnosis for vaccine injury, a pseudoscientific lie used to try to exonerate prosecuted child abusers and baby killers. 5/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          The problem with @AAPSonline is that all too often the press accepts at face value its self-characterization as a legitimate medical professional society instead of what it really is, a John Birch Society clone in disguise. (Actually, AAPS is even nuttier than the JBS was.) 6/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          A good example of this occurred when Tom Price was nominated for @HHSGov secretary after @realDonaldTrump was elected. 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/11/30/the-new-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-is-a-member-of-a-fringe-medical-organization-heres-what-that-means/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Coincident, around that very time @AAPSonline published a heaping pile of 💩 of a study flailing pushing a favorite antivaccine trope, "too many too soon." 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/12/22/the-crank-medical-organization-to-which-hhs-nominee-dr-tom-price-belongs-lays-down-a-heaping-helping-of-antivaccine-pseudoscience/ …

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          More recently, @AAPSonline published a horrible paper by biochemical engineer turned incompetent epidemiologist Brian Hooker. It was a breathtakingly awful "reanalysis" of an MMR safety study. 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/12/12/brian-hookers-antivaccine-pseudoscience-has-risen-from-the-dead-to-threaten-children-again/ …

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Basically, this "reanalysis" tried to cichlids that the original authors of the study had hidden a correlation between MMR and autism in African-American boys. 10/

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Hooker’s incompetent reanalysis, along with Wiiliam Thompson’s claims were literally the basis of the antivaccine conspiracy theory #CDCwhistleblower that blew up in 2014. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/08/25/kevin-barry-you-magnificent-bastard-i-read-your-antivaccine-book/ …

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          The #CDCwhistleblower conspiracy theory was also the basis of the anti-vaccine propaganda movie disguised as a documentary by @DrWakefield and @delbigtree, @vaxxedthemovie. Yet @AAPSonline published the incompetent reanalysis that helped launch it. 12/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/andrew-wakefields-vaxxed-antivaccine-propaganda-at-its-most-pernicious/ …

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        11. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          That's not all the pseudoscience that @AAPSonline backs. For instance, it's published a risibly bad study linking abortion to breast cancer. (Hint: Abortion does not detectably increase the ridiculous of breast cancer.) 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2007/10/25/abortion-and-breast-cancer-the-chicago-t/ …

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        12. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Of course, none of this is surprising, given that Dr. Orient rejects the very concept of a scientific consensus, thus revealing that she doesn't understand the very of nature of science. It is a very silly talking point beloved of cranks. 14/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hostility-towards-scientific-consensus-a-red-flag-identifying-a-crank-or-quack/ …

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        13. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          Not surprisingly, Dr. Orient is also a climate science denier. 15/

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        14. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          So, given all that background, it isn't surprising that Dr. Orient falls into the "vaccine freedom" camp, in which antivaccine pseudoscience is disguised as "choice" or "freedom." 16/

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        15. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Mar 2019

          This brings me back to a variation of my rule of thumb. The use of words like "choice," "freedom," "consent" (especially "informed consent") by someone opposing school vaccine mandates is a red flag for antivaccine views. It fits Dr. Orient. 17/17

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