No, to say that @AAPSonline is wrong about nearly everything is a simple, reasonable observation based on its positions, and, in particular, the dubious ideologically motivated arguments, misinformation, and bad science it uses to support those positions. 1/https://twitter.com/AlietaEck/status/1121408212987777024 …
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Even worse,
@AAPSonline even supported a child killer Akan Yurko with the lie that shaken baby syndrome is a misdiagnosis for vaccine injury. 7/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-antivaccine-lie-that-just-wont-die-shaken-baby-syndrome-is-really-due-to-vaccine-injury/ …Show this thread -
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@AlietaEck claim that the antivax nonsense of@AAPSonline is old news, I note that its journal JPANDS published Brian Hooker’s bogus "reanalysis" that falsely found a link between MMR and autism in African-American boys...in December. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/12/12/brian-hookers-antivaccine-pseudoscience-has-risen-from-the-dead-to-threaten-children-again/ …Show this thread -
That same maverickiness also leads
@AAPSonline to publish risibly, execrably bad science claiming that abortion causes breast cancer. 9/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abortion-and-breast-cancer-the-manufactroversy-that-wont-die/ …Show this thread -
I'm not even counting other
@AAPSonline pseudoscience, like denying the conclusions of climate science that the earth is warming due to CO2 caused by human activity. 10/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hostility-towards-scientific-consensus-a-red-flag-identifying-a-crank-or-quack/ …Show this thread -
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@AAPSonline also parrots anti-immigrant misinformation, such as the claim that immigrants bring and spread disease. No wonder@realDonaldTrump likes them! 11/Show this thread -
Indeed, Tom Price, Trump's first
@HHSGov secretary, was an@AAPSonline member. 12/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/ …Show this thread -
Oh, and at that time
@AAPSonline was still laying down cringeworthy antivaccine pseudoscience. 13/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/ …Show this thread -
Oh, and did I mention how
@AAPSonline published claims that vaccines are associated with sudden infant syndrome? It's not. 14/ http://jpands.org/hacienda/article25.html …Show this thread -
Indeed, if anything at all, vaccines are protective against SIDS. Certainly, we can say with confidence that at least vaccination is NOT associated with increased risk of SIDS. 15/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/06/06/quoth-vox-day-vaccines-are-killing-babies/ …
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But
@AAPSonline is a true example of crank magnetism (hat tip to@MarkHoofnagle). Not only does it embrace pseudoscience, antivaccine nonsense, and quackery, but it claims that Medicare and Medicaid are unconstitutional, while rejecting evidence-based guidelines. 16/Show this thread -
Dr. Eck says
@AAPSonline is against the "corporatization" of medicine, but at the same time advocates a position claiming that the free market will fix what ails medicine. Inconsistent, much? 17/Show this thread -
All of this is why I don't think it unreasonable to conclude that
@AAPSonline is wrong about almost everything. 18/18Show this thread -
Crap! I forgot to mention that
@AAPSonline has promoted HIV/AIDS denialism! 18a/18https://twitter.com/markhoofnagle/status/1121412528834322432 …Show this thread
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