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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.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Vincent Iannelli, MD

      Cost is interesting for another reason. He was an antivaccine activist years before @DrWakefield's fraudulent 1998 @TheLancet case series, before antivaccine grift was even a glint in Wakefield's greedy eyes. 7/https://twitter.com/AboutPediatrics/status/1179895013888741377 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Vincent Iannelli, MDVerified account @AboutPediatrics
      Hey @TheRevAl, you do know what these folks say about HIV and vaccines right? You really want to share a stage with an AIDS denialist??? #VaccinesWork pic.twitter.com/oyvBQjsMbb
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      Here's an interview with Cost from 1995. Not the common antivax tropes, such as the "toxins gambit," the claim that vaccinated children are unhealthy, and the false assertion that vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they prevent. 8/ http://www.satyamag.com/oct95/davis.html …

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      That's not all, though! Around the same time, while a deadly measles epidemic was raging in Samoa, RFK Jr. gave aid and comfort to local antivaxxers and even wrote a letter to the Samoan Prime Minister falsely calling the MMR "defective." 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/05/samoa-measles-outbreak-malielegaoi/ …

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      Basically, antivaxxers, RFK Jr included, have been waging a very conscious campaign to attract minorities, especially black people, to their cause, often invoking the specter of the Tuskegee experiment to prey on the understandable distrust people of color have of doctors. 10/

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      For example, over a decade ago, antivaxxers started targeting the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota with antivaccine messages. The result? Repeated measles outbreaks in that community over the last decade. 11/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/outbreaks-among-somali-immigrants-in-minnesota-thanks-for-the-measles-again-andy/ …

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      Meanwhile, @delbigtree and Andrew Wakefield promoted the #CDCwhistleblower conspiracy theory, a major part of which is that @CDCgov "covered up" evidence that MMR increased the risk of autism in African-American boys by over three-fold. 12/

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      This conspiracy theory was the basis of the antivaccine propaganda film disguised as a documentary, @vaxxedthemovie. 13/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/andrew-wakefields-vaxxed-antivaccine-propaganda-at-its-most-pernicious/ …

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      Basically, it is a feature, not a bug, of older white male antivaxxers to play the "white savior" role trying to "save" minorities from what they view as "vaccine injury." 14/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/12/antivaxers-targeting-minorities/ …

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    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      Antivaxxers even go so far as to portray their movement as the "new civil rights movement." It's mind-bogglingly privileged of them, to liken their struggles to that of blacks trying to achieve equal rights, but they do it all the time. 15/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/09/10/sb-276-new-civil-rights-movement/ …

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    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Brian Hickey

      This image shows what I mean. Notice the paucity of melanin in the protesters holding the signs proclaiming the antivaccine movement to be the "new civil rights movement." 16/https://twitter.com/kcraBrianHickey/status/1171092433913860096?s=20 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Brian Hickey @kcraBrianHickey
      #Breaking: Parents opposed to SB 276 and SB 714 are blocking entrances to the state capitol. They argue the bills headed towards the governor’s desk limit their right to get vaccine exemptions. pic.twitter.com/1bT6SOmJ5w
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD

      I admit it. I got rather snarky when I saw that image. 17/https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1171146898197098502?s=20 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskon
      Replying to @kcraBrianHickey
      For proclaiming themselves the "new civil rights movement," that group of antivaxers is as white as a Trump rally.🤦‍♂️
      5:24 PM - 3 Mar 2021
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

          David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr. Angela Rasmussen

          In any event, Dr. Rasmussen characterized this vileness more succinctly than I could. It's the ultimate expression of white privilege to co-opt the language of civil rights to spread a message that during a pandemic will kill black people. 18/https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1367262596739391488?s=20 …

          David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

          Dr. Angela RasmussenVerified account @angie_rasmussen
          Public health professionals must reckon with both the past & present reality of medical racism. It's essential for building trust. But films that exploit distrust to literally kill more Black people? We aren't trustworthy if we don't loudly oppose this for its abhorrent racism.
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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

          None of this surprises those of us who've been combatting the antivaccine movement for many years. Trying to recruit people of color to what is mostly a lily white movement is what antivaxxers do. 19/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 3

          Antivaxxers preying on the understandable distrust African-Americans have of the medical establishment in order to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt about #COVID19Vaccine is just continuation of their long history of doing the same thing. 20/20

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