After a tragedy, it is human nature to seek a cause, which is how so many SIDS deaths get blamed on vaccines by parents. Unfortunately, the weaponization of tragedy by antivaxers is very difficult to combat without looking as though you're attacking a grieving mother.https://twitter.com/PileOfGoop/status/1145563567841665024 …
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It's like writing about cancer patients who die unnecessarily after choosing quackery instead of cancer. No matter how empathetic and careful you are as you show why the story doesn't support the quackery, you WILL be perceived by some as attacking the patient or the parents.
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Of course, antivax leaders and quacks know this. @DrStanBurzynski, for instance, cynically wielded dying patients and their families like human shields against criticism and government crackdown on his selling expensive cancer quackery.
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