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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.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

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      Holy crap, this is dumb. A baby with a breathing tube would not be sucking on a pacifier. That's a nasogastric feeding tube, you idiot, and those look like hemangioma; i.e., NOT a vaccine reaction. Stop spreading fake antivax news. https://twitter.com/responsibleMDs/status/1227654597004681216 …

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

      Screenshot to save this fake news Tweet for posterity. Again, that's a nasogastric feeding tube, not a breathing tube, and those are hemangiomas, NOT a vaccine reaction.🙄🤦‍♂️pic.twitter.com/jo79LuaGJa

      6 replies 19 retweets 121 likes
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

      OK, someone is telling me this is a parody account, and it might be. If it is a parody account, this particular Tweet is a fail, thanks to Poe's Law and its riling up pro-vaccine doctors far more than anyone else.

      12:25 PM - 12 Feb 2020
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

          I can see that, if this is a parody account, perhaps its owner was trying to get antivaxxers to retweet this particular image. The plan failed. Basically, it's a lot of doctors responding by pointing out the idiocy of the original Tweet.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

          When parody accounts lead pro-vaccine docs to waste their time refuting the nonsense they're hoping to bait antivaxxers into retweeting, it is not helpful; it is counterproductive.

          2 replies 3 retweets 46 likes
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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

          Oh, well, I suppose I should have known better (I usually do.) But even the most experienced #SoMe #medtwitter types occasionally let their guard down or have a bad day.

          1 reply 0 retweets 30 likes
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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020

          If it turns out to be a provax parody account, I'll just take my lumps for having been taken in and be glad it wasn't for very long. That's all you can do.🤦‍♂️

          8 replies 0 retweets 38 likes
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        2. Anarchic Teapot  ⚧  🌈#GetVaccinated‏ @anarchic_teapot 12 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          It looks like a parody account, but a rather clumsy one. Does appear to be genuinely anti-pseudoscience.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Feb 2020
          Replying to @anarchic_teapot

          Yeah, if it's a parody account trying to bait antivaxxers into retweeting that image, it's failed. All it's done is to rile up doctors and lead us to waste our time responding. 🙄🤦‍♂️😡

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        1. djhato‏ @DJh4to 12 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          The thing is that there are a lot of people out there that think far worse than this. Even if this is a poe. It's not even close to how deluded people can get.

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        1. Satyen S‏ @deralteGaukler 12 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          The account was provax so far so I wonder if it is hacked.

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        1. Alissa Hodgson‏ @alissahodgson3 12 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          Just proof we don’t need censorship to fight misinformation. Correct information is the remedy to misinformation.

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        1. Marc McDonald‏ @MarcMcD 12 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          How is it that “parody” has morphed from “a humorous satirical imitation” to “I made up some bullshit to get clicks?”

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