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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"...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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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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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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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/ …Show this thread -
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