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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 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @thereal_truther @hbhbglenn1 and

      It's also a 20-year-old conspiracy theory that we old timers demolished when @RobertKennedyJr first published it almost exactly 15 years ago today. Let's just put it this way. The transcript doesn't show any conspiracy or coverup or data manipulation.https://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/06/robert_f_kenned.html …

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      I read the whole thing back in the day, and let's just say that I was underwhelmed by it as evidence of any sort of malfeasance. What I saw were scientists soberly addressing a concern and examining the evidence. https://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/06/skeptico-reads-simpsonwood-transcript.html …

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      I also examined @RobertKennedyJr's conspiracyfest of an article that popularized the Simpsonwood conspiracy theory. It was full of cherry-picking, unsupported assertions, and, yes, conspiracy mongering. http://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/06/saloncom-flushes-its-credibility-down.html …

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      Seriously, though. Antivaxxers who dredge up RFK Jr.'s 15-year-old conspiracy theory as a "gotcha" amuse me. They seem to think that science communicators have never heard of it or hadn't demolished it when it first hit the press 15 years ago this month.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      The resurrection of this zombie conspiracy theory is a good teaching opportunity, though. It demonstrates that nearly all antivaccine conspiracy theories take the same form.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      The form antivax conspiracy theories take is the insinuation that "they" (be they the @CDCgov, the medical profession, big pharma, etc.) "know" that vaccines cause autism/SIDS/autoimmune disease/all the other things antivaxxers blame them for, but are covering up the evidence.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      The Simpsonwood conspiracy theory from 15 years ago takes that form, that the CDC "knew" that thimerosal in vaccines caused autism but covered it up—at the Simpsonwood conference, of course!

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      The #CDCwhistleblower conspiracy theory takes the same form as #Simpsonwood, that the CDC "knew" that MMR causes autism (in African-American boys) but manipulated the data to cover it up. (The CDC did nothing of the sort.)

      2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      Once you know this near-universal conspiracy theory form, you'll see it in nearly all antivaccine conspiracy theories. You'll also see it in cancer quackery conspiracy theories too, such as in, "'They' have a cure for cancer but are covering it up and keeping it from the people."

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      That's because conspiracy theories, boiled down to their essence, is about believing you have knowledge that other people don't because powerful malign forces are preventing that knowledge from becoming widely known.

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

      Antivaccine beliefs (and a lot of quack beliefs in general) are rooted in these sorts of conspiracy theories based on the idea of a few enlightened people discovering secret, suppressed knowledge, in spite of powerful forces trying to keep it from being revealed.

      3:19 PM - 22 Jun 2020
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        2. Ross Grayson, MPH, CIH‏ @EcoLogicalNet 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @EcoLogicalNet

          Saluti, here is your unroll: @gorskon: @thereal_truther @hbhbglenn1 @Melissa08972285 @delbigtree @uTobian It's also a 20-year-old conspiracy theory… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1275188215872466944.html … Talk to you soon. 🤖

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        1. steven e‏ @stevenpe 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @thereal_truther and

          Its also the death knell for discussion. Once somebody says its a conspiracy no matter what new data or arguments you have the other party will say "see its part of the conspiracy". Clearly discussed in "the death of expertise" @RadioFreeTom

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