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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. McGill Office for Science and Society‏ @McGillOSS 23 May 2020

      Anti-vaccine sentiment is strongly associated with conspiracy thinking and protection of individual freedoms, traits that are finding a home among far-right groups. @crackedscience looks at the #antivaccine movement in 2020 @gorskon @DrPaulOffit @ryarmsthttp://mcgill.ca/x/4iL 

      5 replies 56 retweets 94 likes
    2. Tiffany T‏ @Tiffany44541244 24 May 2020
      Replying to @McGillOSS @crackedscience and

      Good article but I don’t think it’s just finding a home among the far right. There have been conspiracies about chipped vaccines for many years that tie back to far right/religious fundamentalist thinking. It’s the alleged “mark of the beast” to many. Concerns & hysteria about >>

      3 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 May 2020
      Replying to @Tiffany44541244 @McGillOSS and

      Indeed. There’s a myth that antivaccine sentiment was, until recently, primarily a phenomenon among hippy-dippy granola crunching lefties. That’s wrong. Antivax views have long been prevalent on the far right going back to the antifluoridation movement in the 1960s.

      4 replies 16 retweets 46 likes
    4. dan hunter‏ @Scafool5 25 May 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @Anton_P_Nym and

      Actually long before the antiflouridation movement in the1960s. Shortly after Edward Jenner (1760s?) demonstrated how to use cowpox to vaccinate people against smallpox there were people opposed to it in God's name.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 May 2020
      Replying to @Scafool5 @Anton_P_Nym and

      I know that. I was referring specifically to the right wing variety of antivaccine belief.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. dan hunter‏ @Scafool5 25 May 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @Anton_P_Nym and

      So was I doc, they just didn't call the right wing religious nut right wing religious nuts back then, but they were the same kind of science denying asshats that they are now.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 May 2020
      Replying to @Scafool5 @Anton_P_Nym and

      19th Century antivaxxers were actually a diverse lot, and included anti-vivisectionists, temperance advocates, vegetarians, homeopaths, phrenologists, “scientific palmists,” and a society for the prevention of premature burial, and more. It wasn't just a religious phenomenon.🙄

      5:50 PM - 25 May 2020
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        1. dan hunter‏ @Scafool5 25 May 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @Anton_P_Nym and

          I was not trying to ruffle your feathers. I was only trying to point out the history of anti vaxxers goes back farther than the 1960s. You seem offended by the idea religion fueled the opposition back then. Oh well, nothing I can do about that. Bye.

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