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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 5 Mar 2020

      If you are effective, if your profile rises high enough that antivaxxers notice you and you work for a private company, your job might be in danger if you continue to be active on social media defending vaccines. 23/

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      Academia tends to view social media activity as a matter of academic freedom and will often rally to the defense of those attacked by antivax cranks. Private companies? Not so much. Managers tend not to want to be bothered and may tell you to knock it off or lose your job. 24/

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      These days when my cancer center director sees me, he often says that he hasn't had any complaints about me from antivaxxers in a while. I now respond that, if that's the case, obviously I'm falling down on the job and promise to try to do better. Yes, we joke about it. 25/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      Increasingly, I worry about violence, given the increasingly unhinged violent rhetoric used by antivaxxers, who view themselves as heroic figures and fantasize about Nuremberg-like tribunals after they "win" punishing the pro vaccine establishment. 26/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/03/16/the-antivaccine-conspiracy-theory-narrative-you-want-it-darker/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      If you see the increasingly violent and dark memes being shared in the recesses of antivaccine and quack websites, you'd be concerned too. 27/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/05/03/violent-rhetoric-antivaccine-intensifies/ …

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      Indeed, @delbigtree once said, "I don’t know what you were saving that gun for then. I don’t know when you planned on using it if they were going to take control of your own body away. It’s now. Now’s the time." 28/https://youtu.be/ZaR81c9bscA 

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      Given that antivaxxers regularly compare the pro-vaccine establishment to Hitler and the Nazis, it's no wonder that some of the more unhinged among them start thinking that violence would be justified. 29/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/11/08/vaccine-awareness-week-misinformed-consent-course-nazis-eugenics/ …

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      Bigtree is also the antivaxxer who donned a yellow Star of David of the sort that the Nazis forced Jews to wear to allow easy identification and persecution, likening antivaxxers to Jews in occupied Europe. 30/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/15/kucinich-perils-reporting-antivaxers/ …

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    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      I mean, @RobertKennedyJr himself compared the vaccination program to the Holocaust, not once but at least twice I'm aware of. If you really believe something is akin to the Holocaust, then doesn't it follow that violence would be justified to stop it? 31/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/05/30/can-antivaccinationists-knock-it-off-with-the-autism-holocaust-analogies/ …

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    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      To be honest, I'm actually rather surprised that no one's gotten hurt yet, given the increasing violence in antivax rhetoric. Sure, someone shoved @DrPanMD, and sure someone threw menstrual blood at a CA legislator, but no one's suffered serious injury yet. 32/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

      I fear that time could end any day. There's a parallel between the antiabortion movement and the antivaccine movement. in terms of rhetoric. Eventually, that rhetoric inspired radicalized antiabortion activists to kill doctors who performed abortions. 33/

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

          It's not too much of a stretch to see the same thing happening in the antivaccine movement. The rhetoric is already there: That the movement is fighting a battle against great evil to protect the lives of its children. 34/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

          I don't mean to be so depressing to dissuade anyone from joining #DoctorsSpeakUp or #NursesSpeakUp. Really, I'm not. I just want you all to know what you might be getting into if you decide to join us in a big way. I hope you will. Only you can decided if it's worth the risks.35/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Mar 2020

          There are enormous benefits, as well. You can sometimes meet your heroes, for instance. There is community. There is mutual support. I like to think we have each other's back as much as possible. Above all, you're doing good and protecting the health of our children. 36/36

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