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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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.) 6/1 reply 2 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 6 likesShow this thread -
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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
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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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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
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/ …2 replies 3 retweets 9 likesShow 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/ …1 reply 2 retweets 8 likesShow 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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