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 …
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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/ …Show this thread -
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#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/ …Show this thread -
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/ …Show this thread -
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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Not surprisingly, Dr. Orient is also a climate science denier. 15/
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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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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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of a study flailing pushing a favorite antivaccine trope, "too many too soon." 8/