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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. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      Dr. Angela Rasmussen Retweeted Jennifer Margulis

      It’s always really credible when an #antivaxxer points to a paper as conclusive data (“breaking #science news) using a screenshot of the abstract that cuts off the name of the journal and doesn’t link to the study itself. Here’s why this is disingenuous:https://twitter.com/JenniferMarguli/status/1266046908721532931 …

      Dr. Angela Rasmussen added,

      Jennifer Margulis @JenniferMarguli
      Breaking #science news: #vaccinated children showed higher developmental delays, #asthma and ear #infections than unvaccinated children based directly on patient charts & diagnosis codes. But not more gastrointestinal problems. N=4821; 44.5% were unvaccinated. pic.twitter.com/bTRzMHa4ix
      17 replies 87 retweets 339 likes
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    2. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      If this paper is such a conclusive slam dunk, why wouldn’t you want your audience to go see the data in all its vaccine-damning glory? Well, @gorskon did so you don’t have to. There are...a LOT of problems with study design, analysis, and sampling.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/05/29/hooker-and-miller-publish-terrible-vaxxed-unvaxxed-study/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hooker-and-miller-publish-terrible-vaxxed-unvaxxed-study …

      1 reply 12 retweets 80 likes
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    3. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      Then there’s the journal it’s published in...SAGE Open Medicine. This open access journal does put papers through peer review but it’s not...very stringent. This publishing model relies on authors paying for their papers to be published.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2050312120925344 …

      1 reply 4 retweets 58 likes
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    4. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      Some open access publishers are very good and some are not. Though SAGE is not an outright predatory publisher, SAGE OM also has a VERY low impact factor <1, suggesting that a lot of the papers published aren’t cited much and aren’t earth-shattering scientific revelations.

      1 reply 4 retweets 47 likes
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    5. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      The open access model requires authors paying so their work can be freely shared. This is good in principle & there are many rigorous open access journals (PLoS, eLife, etc). There are also some that care more abt the publication fee than peer review. SAGE OM is on the border.

      1 reply 5 retweets 37 likes
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    6. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      The authors of this study also have credibility problems. Neither have backgrounds in epidemiology, biology, or medicine besides their own clout-chasing in #antivaxx circles.

      2 replies 3 retweets 45 likes
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    7. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      Brian Hooker has cast himself as a “CDC whistleblower” based on some flawed reanalysis he did on data about the MMR vaccine. He’s a chemical engineer who currently has a faculty position at a fundamentalist Christian university with no medical school.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/four-vaccine-myths-and-where-they-came …

      2 replies 15 retweets 71 likes
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    8. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 30 May 2020

      Neil Z. Miller is a journalist who writes bad anti-vaccine propaganda and directs an anti-vaccine institute.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/another-anti-vaccine-book/ …

      3 replies 9 retweets 66 likes
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    9. Dr. Tara C. Smith‏Verified account @aetiology 30 May 2020
      Replying to @angie_rasmussen

      Miller is even more out there. He claims to talk to aliens, who informed his antivaccine views.

      6 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 May 2020
      Replying to @aetiology @angie_rasmussen

      He’s also co-authored several antivax “studies”; in one he tried to correlate nations’ infant mortality rates with the number of vaccines their recommended schedule.

      11:06 AM - 30 May 2020
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        2. Faye Norby, PhD, MPH‏ @faye_epi Jul 15
          Replying to @gorskon @aetiology @angie_rasmussen

          Oh goodie, a new anti-vax "study" by Neil Z Miller. Who knew that in a vaccine-injury database, people are indeed more likely to report deaths closer to the vax date. Of course, that's not his conclusion. 🥴How does this even get published?https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214750021001268?via%3Dihub#bib0195 …

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr. Tara C. Smith‏Verified account @aetiology Jul 15
          Replying to @faye_epi @gorskon @angie_rasmussen

          This is why these are always published in toxicology journals, instead of vaccine or epidemiology journals.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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