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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.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Jonathan Stickland

      Achievement unlocked. (I do so love basking in the adoration of my fans.) I must admit: Although I've been called many mean and nasty things by antivaxers, I've never been called a Commie by anyone before that I recall. What year is this, anyway? 1952? Where's Sen. Joe McCarthy?https://twitter.com/RepStickland/status/1125851871078506502 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Jonathan SticklandVerified account @RepStickland
      Replying to @gorskon
      Personal responsibility and parental rights confuse you, I get it. You’re a brainwashed commie, not all your fault.
      3 replies 2 retweets 40 likes
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      And I've never, ever been called a Commie (or anything else) by an elected official. So thanks, @RepStickland, for giving me a hearty laugh. 😂 2/

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      But back to personal responsibility and parental rights. Note how @RepStickland won't explain what he means by "parental rights." That's probably because any serious discussion would involve difficult questions of where parental rights end and the child's rights begin.

      2 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      Does @RepStickland subscribe, for instance, to @RandPaul's view of parental rights in which the parents own the children? (No, he really said this: "The state doesn’t own the children. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom.") 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/03/is-republican-party-becoming-antivaccine-party/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      Or does @RepStickland think that children have rights as autonomous beings in the temporary care of their parents? I suspect he views children more as property or appendage, because FREEDOM. (Be really hasn't come across as very bright so far.) 4/

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      Certainly @RepStickland hasn't struck me as someone who thinks much or very deeply about anything. 5/

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 May 2019

      In any event, when I say that the @GOP had become the antivaccine party, Republican politicians like @RepStickland are one huge reason why. 6/6https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ …

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    8. PZ Myers  🕷‏ @pzmyers 8 May 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @drricky and

      It's strange how once antivaxx nonsense was the domain of fringe freaky hippie lefties, & Republicans looked at it and demanded that stupid was *their* brand, so they had to appropriate it.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 8 May 2019
      Replying to @pzmyers @drricky and

      It's because FREEDUMB. Basically antivaxers figured out the siren call to lure right wingers to their cause: FREEDOM, "parental rights," and portraying school vaccine mandates as government overreach and an unacceptable infringement of THEIR freedom and parental rights.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 8 May 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @pzmyers and

      Then the appeals to FREEDUMB and parental rights served as the gateway for antivax conspiracy theories and pseudoscience to infiltrate the @GOP base.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 8 May 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @pzmyers and

      Most @GOP politicians are not antivax, but antivax pseudoscience has increasingly infiltrated enough of the Republican base that many candidates and elected officials say feel the need to pander to the growing number of vocal and politically active right wing antivaxers.

      6:23 AM - 8 May 2019
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 8 May 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @pzmyers and

          Unfortunately, the greatest success of antivaxers had been to frame their conspiracy theories as an assault on "freedom" and thereby co-opt the libertarian and Trump wings of @GOP.

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
        3.  ✌🏼UnapologeticLiberal 💙Biden/Harris ✊🏼MaskUp 😷 ♀‏ @PunaniLani 8 May 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @pzmyers and

          And now we have clusters of kids getting diseases we haven't had an issue with in DECADES. Seems like common sense to us, but to them, THE MOUTHBREATHING MAGA CROWD, you may as well say you're taking a dump on jesus whilst taking away all their semi-automatic "hunting" rifles.

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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 8 May 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @pzmyers and

          "Say they feel the need."🤦‍♂️

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