Here’s a perfect example of false equivalence. Note how he only grudgingly admits that there are antivaxxers spreading disinformation, but he doesn’t sound as though he thinks it’s really much of a problem. https://twitter.com/noorchashm/status/1357211174228684800 …
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Deciding that antivaccine activists are only concerned about safety (where in reality, they promote misinformation about risks vaccines don’t have) and provaccine speakers don’t care about safety is certainly buying an antivaccine line of argument. Of course we care about safety.
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We do, however, follow the data on it. We don’t, for example, assume every death after a vaccine is because of the vaccine without evidence. Because that’s a mistake.
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I have a term that I like to use, "misinformed refusal." It's a take on the "informed consent" argument that antivaxxers like to invoke as they spread misinformation.
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Antivaxxers try to get parents to refuse vaccines based on misinformation minimizing benefit and vastly exaggerating risk, inventing "risks" that vaccines don't actually have, and downplaying the severity of diseases vaccinated against, hence the term "misinformed refusal."
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