That’s a conspiracy theory website that traffics in anti-Semitic holocaust denial propaganda. Even so that is all based on an ingredient removed from vaccines decades ago. Have autism rates gone down since then?
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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 …1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes -
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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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 -
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.
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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.
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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 -
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!
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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 -
Replying to @gorskon @hbhbglenn1 and
I always ask anti-vaxxers if this conspiracy theory is to be believed shouldn’t African-American boys have higher rates of autism? Like 300x?
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I also point out to antivaxxers that, if #CDCwhistleblower is correct, then it nearly completely disproves Andrew Wakefield, because even Brian Hooker's "reanalysis" of the data fail to show a correlation between MMR vaccination and autism in any group but African-American boys.
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