I am not a cult leader. I am not anti-science (that one is almost funny, given how much I quote Einstein). And I am not an anti-vaxxer. Hoping that if I repeat it 3 to 4 times a day I might penetrate the field of lies created to keep some people out of the conversation.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You may not be, strictly speaking, anti-vaxx. But your comments aren't exactly pro-science/pro-vaccinations and they demonstrate an ignorance of how vaccines work.pic.twitter.com/xOrnphoeiI
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Replying to @MalteseAnna @marwilliamson
There are various gradations of antivax. I don't think she's hardcore antivax, but she does lean to the antivax side of the line.
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Replying to @gorskon @marwilliamson
Agreed. Anyone who claims to support vaccinating but then falls back on anti-government excuses for not vaccinating isn’t pro-vaccination.
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Replying to @MalteseAnna @gorskon
I’m pro-vaccine & pro-science! Also pro-responsibility on part of Big Pharma & independent govt oversight. We’re currently indicting Big Pharma execs for opioid crisis. In every other area we should just assume they’re a paragon of pure intention and concern for the common good?
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Replying to @marwilliamson @gorskon
"...assume they're a paragon of pure intention?" That's a straw man argument. And straw man arguments don't make a good case for trusting a candidate. But OK, Marianne, I'll bite. How was Jonas Salk, to take one example, guilty of nefarious intent by inventing the polio vaccine?
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Replying to @MalteseAnna @gorskon
Jonas Salk was a great scientist. The polio vaccine did and does save lives. The current controversy about vaccines is not about their inherent value. It’s about the rise in chronic illnesses (from 12% to 54%) among American children since the “Vaccine Protection Law” in 1986.
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It’s about big Pharma lobbying Congress at $282M last year (oil & gas $125M). It’s about $4B in compensation claims since the 1986 law. It’s about Centers for Disease Control Refusing to do more research, despite pressure from Inst. of Medicine. And about the squashing of debate.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @gorskon
Again, you're straw manning. You use the claim you have nothing against vaccines' "inherent value" as cover for intentionally conflating vaccines with everything "Big Pharma" does. As if the scientific and medical communities are one giant monolith of evil.
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You know what? I changed my mind. Earlier in this thread I said that I don't think Williamson is hard core antivax. Her last couple of Tweets forced me to reevaluate. I was mistaken before. She's antivax AF.
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She's just another random conspiracy theory cultist.
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