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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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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Mar 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Forrest Maready

    "Safe." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means . Then there's the issue of suffering. Getting the chicken pox is an utterly miserable experience. I remember when I got it when I was 7. Horrible. What an idiot, but this is how antivaxers think.🤦‍♂️https://twitter.com/forrestmaready/status/1108836747562094606 …

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    Forrest Maready @forrestmaready
    Chickenpox parties served to safely immunize children against chickenpox AND adults against shingles. Ever since science came to the rescue, you need at least TWO vaccines (plus booster shots). Guess who’s more happy? People? Or Pharma, Inc.? Bring back the PoxParties!
    6:31 AM - 23 Mar 2019
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      1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Mar 2019

        And that doesn't even take the risk of shingles into account after the children grow up.

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      2. Rina‏ @green_cait 23 Mar 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Anti-vaxxers say chickenpox reduces the risk of shingles more than the vaccine but I'm losing track of the no's of my relatives in the UK and Ireland (where they don't vaccinate for CP) who've gotten shingles.

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      3. Rina‏ @green_cait 23 Mar 2019
        Replying to @green_cait @gorskon

        Let's see. In the last 2 years: my mom, my uncle, my other uncle, first uncle's wife, my cousin's son (who's only about 10) - all in Ireland, and my sister-in-law (in the UK). And those are only the ones I've heard about, all the way here in Canada.

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      1. RedPanda #wearamask‏ @RedPanda0611 23 Mar 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        My cousin died of chicken pox related encephalopathy at 4 years old. Want to tell my aunt Kathleen how safe chicken pox is?

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      2. Paulette Platt‏ @PaulettePlatt 23 Mar 2019
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        I've seen a lot of people saying the chickenpox vaccine doesn't protect you against shingles, which was not my understanding. What's the truth? Does it lower your chance? I'm pissed I have to wait til I'm 50 to get the shingles vaccine :(

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Mar 2019
        Replying to @PaulettePlatt

        You can't get shingles if you don't get the chicken pox. Shingles is due to reactivation of dormant virus in the nerve roots.

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      1. Chelsea  🌈 🌀‏ @furacaochelsea 23 Mar 2019
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        Meanwhile I got the vaccine when I was 6 (when it first came out) and gained immunity. I had no traumatic experience, no memory of it at all. Seems just about ideal to me. But anti-vaxers refuse to get that and would instead have their children suffer to be "safe."

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      1. Bflo Skeptic‏ @skeptifan 23 Mar 2019
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        Thank you for your efforts to educate people about the dangers pseudoscience, Dr. Gorski. How do you balance the notion of providing guidance, education, and reason w/ notion that sharing opinions of the uninformed (or worse) could serve to entrench the credulous even further?

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      1. Shiny‏ @ShinyEmil 23 Mar 2019
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        I wish we had the vaccine when I was a kid. I remember pox “parties” and having chickenpox, it was not pleasant nor a party.

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      1. Baron Chandler‏ @msthebaron 23 Mar 2019
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        Leeches and laudanum. Urethral scraping and mercury to cure STDs. Trepanation for depression and schizophrenia. These folks ideas of medical tech "regression" over the past 100-200 years is fascinating. Dumbasses, the lot.

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