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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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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      Antivaxers count on this and use it to silence questioning. Parents who have lost a child learn that their loss gives them power to silence or inhibit criticism. We are empathetic beings, and relatively few of us has ever experienced such a loss. 6/

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      Moving on to a different SSPE t of this phenomenon, many of these stories of "death by vaccine" don't involve SIDS, but teens who died unexpectedly, such as Anna Morin. Virtually all of these antivax stories of teen deaths involve the HPV vaccine. 7/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/how-not-to-report-about-vaccine-safety-issues-toronto-star-edition/ …

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      I've written about many such cases of antivaxers weaponizing the grief of parents whose children have died, children such as Colton Berrett. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/01/17/did-gardasil-kill-colton-berrett/ …

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      Here's another example, Jasmine Renata. 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/10/31/and-now-death-by-gardasil-again-not-so-fast/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      Jasmine is a particularly egregious case, where antivax pseudoscientist Christopher Shaw tortured science to try to "prove" that it was Gardasil that killed her. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/10/31/and-now-death-by-gardasil-again-not-so-fast/ …

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      In 2018, antivaxers seized on the case of Jasmin Soriat, a teen whose death was unconvincingly blamed on Gardasil. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/02/12/death-by-gardasil-not-so-fast-2018-edition/ …

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      Antivaxers even made a movie about supposed "injuries" and "deaths by Gardasil" called "Sacrificial Virgins. 12/https://youtu.be/KAzcMHaBvLs 

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      Of course, the imagery in the title is not about a loss of innocence, but a *sacrifice* of innocence, an image that resonates deeply in human myth, history, religion, and literature. 13/

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    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      The next question becomes: Sacrifice to what? In general, the implication of human sacrifice, particularly virgin sacrifice, is of ancient, pagan religion, and that’s clearly the imagery the video makers went for. 14/

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    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      The implication is that vaccination for HPV is based not on science, but rather on some form of irrational, religious belief system that demands a virgin sacrifice. (No one ever accused antivaxers of being subtle.) 16/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

      The point is, blaming SIDS and the deaths of children and teens on vaccines is longstanding tactic of antivaxers. They've even tried to portray shaken baby syndrome as a "misdiagnosis for vaccine injury" to acquit baby killers. 17/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-antivaccine-lie-that-just-wont-die-shaken-baby-syndrome-is-really-due-to-vaccine-injury/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          I couldn't believe it myself when I first encountered this vile antivax lie examining the case of Alan Yurko. 18/ http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/yurko1.htm …

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          The bottom line is that antivaxers are masters of preying on a grieving parent's need to have an explanation, to know why her child died. 19/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          Antivaxers bait their hook with a seemingly reasonable explanation for the child's death, and the parents' hunger for any explanation leads her to take the bait and be reeled into the movement. 20/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          Once there, the grieving parents receive empathy aplenty and a new, powerful social support network to help them. To antivaxers they're martyrs who unknowingly "sacrificed" their children after all. 21/

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          That same grief is then weaponized, making the parents a human shield against critics as described above, and a powerful "in" to gain access to lawmakers and powerful people. Who would turn down a meeting with a grieving mother? Who wouldn't give her a respectful hearing? 22/

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          What reporter would risk appearing callous reporting on such parents? What parents wouldn't feel their pain? 23/

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          That's what makes @BrandyZadrozny's report so valuable. Until now, pretty much only bloggers and pro-science social media personalities have dared touch this sort of story. Kudos to her and @NBCNews for taking this one on. 24/

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          Sadly, I predict that the antivax backlash will be epic. @BrandyZadrozny is the first mainstream media reporter that I can recall to have so directly taken on the #1 sacred cite of the antivaccine movement. 25/25

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Sep 2019

          The #1 sacred cow. Damn, Twitter. I need an edit function, even if it's only good for a few minutes. 🤦‍♂️

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        1. Leoni‏ @leoni_marie1 23 Oct 2019
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          And your opinion on shaken baby ?

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