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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 Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan @shayla__love

      Then, in 2008 I noted how lawyers were gaming VAERS by encouraging plaintiffs to report that their child's autism had first been diagnosed after vaccination.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/01/18/how-vaccine-litigation-distorts-the-vaer/ …

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan @shayla__love

      Basically, it's a hoary old antivaccine trope, antivaxxers misusing and abusing the VAERS database in order to try to imply that the apparent correlation between reported adverse events and vaccines was actually causation.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-vaccines-as-dangerous-continue-apace-vaers-edition/ …

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    3. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @shayla__love

      We linked to one of your blogs in there! Everything old really is new again, when it comes to bullshit anti-vax claims, isn't it

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @annamerlan @shayla__love

      Sorry. I didn't click on most of the links...I tend to be a bit lazy that way...😂

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @shayla__love

      appreciate your work! maybe someday they will come up with a genuinely new idea for you to debunk

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @annamerlan @shayla__love

      Somehow, I doubt it. Even though most might assume that this is a new claim of antivaxxers, based on #COVID19 vaccines being mRNA-based, even their claim that #CovidVaccine will "alter" or "reprogram" your DNA is NOT new. Antivaxxers have long made that claim for other vaccines.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan @shayla__love

      Indeed, in 2017, @BusyDrT was claiming that DNA vaccines were subverting evolution by altering your genes. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/04/28/quoth-an-antivaxer-dna-vaccines-are-contaminating-our-dna-in-the-name-of-transhumanism/ …

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and

      In 2012, @sayerjigmi was making much the same claims.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/01/27/vaccines-are-transhumanism/ …

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and

      In fact, every single antivaccine trope that's been promulgated during the #COVID19 pandemic, be it about #CovidVaccine or the disease itself, is not new. I've yet to find one that I hadn't written about when I first saw it last year.

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    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and

      Heck, even the claims that #COVID19 is not dangerous are nothing new for antivaxxers. They've been trying to deny that measles and varicella are dangerous since...well, as long as I've paid attention to the antivaccine movement.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
      Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and

      Perhaps the most ridiculous example occurred six years ago, when antivaxxers pointed to a 1969 episode of "The Brady Bunch" in which all the kids catch the measles to claim that people back then thought measles was no big deal because it wasn't dangerous.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/appeal-to-brady-bunch-vaccine-fallacy/ …

      1:47 PM - 3 Feb 2021
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
          Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and

          I note that in that post I also discussed a really despicable antivaccine trope that's risen to the fore during #COVID19, namely the shrugging of one's shoulders at the deaths caused by the disease as "not a big deal." Antivaxxers did it for measles then and do it for COVID now.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 3
          Replying to @gorskon @annamerlan and

          Maybe, Anna, someday antivaxxers will make some bogus claim about vaccines that is radically new and has never before been made. I tend to doubt that I'll live long enough to see it, though. 😂

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