The reason @PGtzsche1 "attracted the wrong crowd” is because that “wrong crowd” recognized a kindred spirit, implacably hostile to psychiatry, flirting with the antivaccine movement (and apparently about to publish a book whose title sounds antivaccine), etc. 1/https://twitter.com/ivanoransky/status/1211652137199063040 …
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@PGtzsche1 surprised and alarmed that his first Institute for Scientific Freedom meeting was full of antivaxxers demanding to ask questions about vaccines and talking over him? He shouldn’t be. 6/Show this thread -
After all, he’s been flirting with the antivax movement for years, and only pulled out of the conference hosted by
@picphysicians when it came to light that@RobertKennedyJr and other “luminaries” of the antivax movement would be speaking there too. 6/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/peter-gotzsche-and-antivaxers-should-a-science-advocate-ever-speak-at-an-antivaccine-conference/ …Show this thread -
Also,
@PGtzsche1 invited antipsychiatry speakers to the same conference and has been implacably hostile to pharma and pharmaceutical drugs. He wrote a book about how to "bypass doctors and seek out the best medical information via the internet.” 7/Show this thread -
Several of his other books have quite inflammatory titles, like “Deadly Psychiatry,” “Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime,” etc. 8/pic.twitter.com/kGKbOacxOW
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His forthcoming book is entitled “Vaccines: Truth, Lies, and Controversy,” which sure as heck sounds like it’s at least going to lean antivaccine. Is it any surprise that antivaxxers think he’s one of their own? 9/
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Sadly,
@PGtzsche1, although appropriately alarmed at the cranks he’s attracting, appears not to have the self-awareness and introspection necessary to ask WHY he attracts these people. It doesn’t occur to him that it’s because his beliefs have veered into crank territory. 10/10Show this thread
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