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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 23 Aug 2020

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      Projection at its finest, as anything Handley writes about vaccines and the scientifically discredited ex-hypothesis that vaccines cause autism or increase the risk of autism is likely to be false or a major distortion. 1/ https://twitter.com/jb_handley/status/1297316191325827072 …

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      Let's go back down memory lane, shall we? When @jb_handley founded @GenRescue, he and his wife proclaimed that mercury in the thimerosal preservative used in some childhood vaccines was The One True Cause of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2/

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      Thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001-2, in essence a natural experiment. If mercury caused, autism, then several years later autism prevalence should have started to plummet, given that the amount of mercury in vaccines had plummeted to near zero. It didn't. 3/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      Instead, autism prevalence continued to increase. That's why the hypothesis that mercury in vaccines causes autism is deader than dead. It's a failed hypothesis, an ex-hypothesis. 4/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/mercury-in-vaccines-and-autism-a-failed-hypothesis/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      So what did Handley do? Simple. As I wrote 13 years ago, he started to back away from a hypothesis that could be—had been—so clearly falsified, such as that mercury in vaccines caused autism, to a more gauzy, less easily falsifiable idea. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2007/05/02/even-the-zealots-cant-defend-this-hypoth/ …

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      JB's Generation Rescue before its rebranding: "Generation Rescue believes that childhood neurological disorders such as autism, Asperger’s, ADHD/ADD, speech delay, sensory integration disorder, and many other developmental delays are all misdiagnoses for mercury poisoning." 6/

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      JB after: "We believe these neurological disorders ('NDs') are environmental illnesses caused by an overload of heavy metals, live viruses, and bacteria. Proper treatment of our children, known as 'biomedical intervention', is leading to recovery for thousands..." 7/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

      "...The cause of this epidemic of NDs is extremely controversial. We believe the primary causes include the tripling of vaccines given to children in the last 15 years (mercury, aluminum and live viruses); maternal toxic load and prenatal vaccines..." 8/

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

          "...heavy metals like mercury in our air, water, and food; and the overuse of antibiotics." Whoa! Notice how JB's idea became so much less specific and so much broader, more vague, and, not coincidentally, much more difficult to falsify? 9/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

          Meanwhile, other antivaxxers started backing away from the hypothesis that mercury in vaccines was the One True Cause of Autism. For example, David Kirby said it was "no longer the smoking gun," as he pivoted to mitochondrial disorders plus vaccines. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/10/29/david-kirby-admits-that-mercury-in-vacci/ …

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

          Over time, after JB decided to decrease his involvement in Generation Rescue, the organization rebranded itself to go beyond vaccines into general autism grift selling quackery to "cure" autism. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/06/19/generation-rescue-grift/ …

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

          Basically, ol' JB was horrendously wrong about vaccines and autism before and remains horrendously wrong about vaccines and autism. He's also found a niche in #COVID19 denial, peddling all sorts of disinformation about the pandemic. 12/12https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/j-b-handleys-unthinking-persons-guide-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Aug 2020

          Surprise! Surprise! 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/oTANgLMYBT

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