A beautiful demknstration of the denialist technique of cherry-picking. It is true, decreased mortality prior to introduction of salk/sabin was due to the iron lung and better medical care of those sickened by vaccine preventable illnesses.
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But what is also true is that now that we have the vaccines we don’t have to put paralyzed children in iron lungs in the first place.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @NEOrganics
Exactly. With this trope, antivaxers completely dismiss the severe morbidity and suffering vaccine-preventable diseases caused and the elimination of that suffering by vaccines as unimportant.
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You guys missed the memo, CDC study, Journal of Paediatrics (2000).
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Replying to @NEOrganics @gorskon and
Some people look at food pics, influencers and vacations on Instagram. Others use it to get their "real education" lol.
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Replying to @LithiumCa @gorskon and
The authoritarian zeal of a pseudo-socialist intellectual....using ad hominem attacks and petty jobs to feel powerful...or to cover up the immense guilt they must be feeling having shilled for big-government nanny-state Phascism in the past...totally delusional about real health.
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Replying to @NEOrganics @LithiumCa and
Oh yeah. That’s it. I feel guilty about routinely saving lives. Your projection is showing. What do you do again?
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @NEOrganics and
Yep. Just like how I feel guilty about saving the lives of women with breast cancer.
I was amused by his use of the term “Phascism,” combining “pharma” and “fascism.” Amusing, particularly to a surgeon who prescribed few drugs, nearly all generics.2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @NEOrganics and
Pretty much all my gotos are generic at this point. Critical care is a bit stodgy I guess. I can’t think of a single branded drug I prescribe offhand. Maybe kcentra, very very rarely Andexxa (I’m not convinced these newer reversal agents are super useful)
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For me, it’s mostly pain meds and antibiotics, and occasionally tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor when a patient needs it before seeing her oncologist.
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