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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 17 Dec 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

      These days, it’s always @GOP. Although antivaccine beliefs are held by roughly the same percentages of people on the left and right, only one party has made pandering to antivaxxers a part of its strategy. It’s not surprising to see @WyomingGOP do this. It’s a GOP pattern. 1/https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1206914157649563648 …

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      Prof Peter Hotez MD PhDVerified account @PeterHotez
      Now I’m fighting ignorance antiscience in #Wyoming. I’m a political moderate, I really don’t understand what’s going on with this element of ⁦@GOP⁩. Now in multiple states we’re seeing legislation aimed to specifically harm children. Just please stop https://apnews.com/8a96234a3f01e7bbb46e2ded6dc1c2e9 …
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      The reason is that, unlike @TheDemocrats, @GOP has conflated opposition to school vaccine mandates with “parental rights,” “choice,” and opposition to big government. In effect @GOP has become the antivaccine party. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ … 2/

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      This is because antivaxxers have been quite successful in framing their opposition to vaccine mandates as in those terms, and antivax groups like @TXforVaxChoice and @MI4VaxChoice are active and well-funded through conservative groups like @EmpowerTexans. 3/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      So, yes, antivax have successfully linked their opposition to mandates to parental choice and rights, but why did @GOP let them be so successful? Why do Republicans now regularly do things like this? 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/05/14/oregon-republicans-facilitate-antivaxers/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      Why is nearly all the opposition to S2173, to eliminate nonmedical exemptions coming from the @NJGOP? Yes, there were a handful of @NJDemocrat senators opposed, which delayed a final vote until next month, but the vast majority of the opposition comes from Republicans. 5/

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      Why did my ex-state rep chair an antivax “roundtable” before the 2018 @MIGOP primary and my ex-state senator, who was running for governor, attend? 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/03/jeff-noble-kerry-bentivolio-host-antivax/ …

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      That same state rep said that the @MI_Republicans on the Health Policy Committee are the only ones receptive to “vaccine choice” initiatives, while the @MIHouseDems won’t even consider them and want to “shove vaccines down your throat (or arm).” 7/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

      Why are school vaccine mandates becoming so politicized, with @GOP opposing expanding them out even advocating weakening them and @TheDemocrats supporting their expansion and opposing weakening them? 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-the-age-of-donald-trump-vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized-with-potentially-deadly-consequences/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

          Don’t get me wrong. There are antivax liberals/Democrats. (I’m talking to.) However, they are quite rightly viewed as fringe and have little influence. Compare them to @RandPaul, who’s antivax and a powerful Senator. 9/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

          After all, @RobertKennedyJr, @marwilliamson, and @DrJillStein are basically viewed as jokes on the left. @RandPaul is a highly influential senator. Dan Burton was a powerful Representative who uses his committee chairmanship to torture @CDCgov officials. I could go on. 10/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

          I think that the antigovernment conservative donors doing an advantage in the passion of antivaxxers that they can use in their all out war against the regulatory state. 11/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

          In turn, antivaxxers benefit because some of the Republicans who are persuaded by the conflation of opposition to school vaccine mandates with “freedom” will be susceptible to the hard core antivax belief system and conspiracy theories. 12/

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

          Thus, for some (but not all) “freedom loving” conservatives, opposing school vaccine mandates in the name of “parental rights” will be the first step down the road to becoming full fledged antivaxxers. 13/

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2019

          It’s unfortunately a mutually beneficial alliance. Antivaxxers grain recruits and increasing influence in a major party, while the now Trumpified @GOP gains foot soldiers in its war against the “deep state,” @TheDemocrats, and the old guard conservatives. 14/14

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