Dumbest idea ever: A vaccine "debate" between two lawyers, @AlanDersh and @RobertKennedyJr, neither of whom has significant scientific knowledge about vaccines, and one of whom is rabidly antivaccine. 1/https://www.ageofautism.com/2020/07/vaccine-debate-is-on-robert-f-kennedy-jr-vs-alan-dershowitz.html …
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Second, since debates are won more on rhetoric and appearance rather than facts and science, "debates" allow the crank to Gish gallop and use deceptive rhetoric and logical fallacies to their hearts' content, thus giving them a good chance of appearing to win. 4/
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It's even worse when the person defending the scientific consensus is a nonscientist who is almost certainly unfamiliar with the common antivaccine talking points, tropes, pseudoscience, and distortions of evidence.
@AlanDersh really should have politely refused. 5/Show this thread -
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@AlanDersh is going to be used as a tool to spread antivaccine misinformation, pseudoscience, and disinformation. 6/6Show this thread
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