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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 Apr 4

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

      What most pundits, scientists, and doctors don't realize is that this is not a new alliance. Rather, it's the fruition of an effort by antivaxxers to court the far right. It started by portraying school vaccine mandates as an unacceptable government assault on "freedom." 1/https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1378703269594300420 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH @GYamey
      “In the US & Europe anti-vaxxers have joined forces with populist & libertarian movements, & American groups aligned with the Tea Party invoke “medical freedom,” “health freedom,” or “choice” to justify withholding vaccines from children”—The AIER’s Naomi Wolf is the face of this https://twitter.com/NickSawyerMD/status/1378588959182184449 …
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

      Contrary to the view of many who always thought that the antivax movement was all hippy dippy crunchy lefties, antivax beliefs have always been roughly equally prevalent on the right and the left. Even @iamsambee got this wrong years ago. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/06/04/the-daily-show-hilarious-segment-about-vaccines-not-so-hilariously-wrong-about-the-politics-of-vaccine-denialism/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Indeed, there has long been a strong right-wing conspiratorial wing of the antivaccine movement, dating back at least to the John Birch Society. Anyone ever hear of General Bert Stubblebine III’s Natural Solutions Foundation? 3/

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

          Then there was Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), the longtime powerful @indgop pol who used to use his position as chair of the Oversight Committee to call @CDCgov officials to testify about a "vaccine-autism" link. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/11/23/representative-dan-burtons-last-antivaccine-hurrah-is-scheduled-for-november-29/ …

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Let's get to more recent history. A decade ago, antivaxxers started reaching out to the newly ascendant Tea Party with messages that vaccine mandates were an example of excessive government regulation that should be opposed. 5/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          By 2013, antivaxxers were contributing heavily to @DarrellIssa's Congressional campaign. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/09/18/the-antivaccine-movement-tries-to-buy-political-influence/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          .@DarrellIssa, for his part, returned the favor by continuing Burton's legacy of abusing his chair to call @CDCgov officials before his committee to ask them why CDC wasn't investigating "vaccine injury." 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/12/04/the-mummers-farce-that-was-the-congressional-autism-hearing-last-week/ …

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          From there, the courting of the right by antivaxxers continued. In 2016, antivaxxers courted @jasoninthehouse and other @GOP heavyweights at the federal level to "investigate @CDCgov." 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/06/22/antivaxers-go-to-washington-to-persuade-rep-jason-chaffetz-to-investigate-the-cdc/ …

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Meanwhile, in my state, @delbigtree, along with @MI4VaxChoice and other antivaxxers, descended on the Michigan State House. Unfortunately, they had a fairly warm reception from @MIGOP. 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/10/28/nobody-promotes-antivaccine-nonsense-in-my-statewithout-receiving-some-insolence-2016-election-edition/ …

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          What really turbocharged the alliance between antivaxxers and the right, though, was the battle by @DrPanMD and pro-vaccine politicians to pass SB277, the California law that eliminated nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates in 2015. 10/

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Then came Donald Trump, which took the seeds of right wing antivaccine activism that had been germinating the last few years and laid a ton of fertilizer on it. 11/

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        11. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          By the time Trump became President, even though the prevalence of antivaccine views still remained roughly the same on the right and left, the *activist* wing of the antivaccine movement had shifted markedly right. 12/

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        12. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Antivaxxers in MI, for example, started promoting "make measles great again" bills; for example, this one if passed would have neutered the ability of @MichiganHHS to develop new rules to improve vaccine uptake and hamstringed local health officials. 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/04/05/why-is-the-michigan-legislature-trying-to-hard-to-bring-back-vaccine-preventable-diseases/ …

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        13. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Antivaxxers also pushed bills that would have required bogus "informed consent" about "fetal parts" in vaccines. 14/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/06/12/senate-bill-1055-antivaccine-fear-mongering/ …

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        14. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Meanwhile, @ohiogop and @ohiogopsenate became rife with antivaxxers, to the point where antivaxxers bragged about how many allies they had in the Ohio State House. 15/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/13/ohio-statehouse-antivaccine/ …

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        15. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          This sort of thing has been going on all over the country, with @GOP either pandering to, playing footsie with, or overtly embracing the antivaccine movement. 16/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ …

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        16. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Basically, what happened is that "freedom" and "parental rights" were the "in" that antivaxxers used to entice the right. Once the alliance was made, then, though, the right proved as open to antivax conspiracy theories as it has been to #QAnonCult. 17/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-pandemic-deniers-and-the-antivaccine-movement-an-unholy-alliance/ …

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        17. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          That's why, once the #COVID19 #pandemic began, unsurprisingly, antivaxxers rapidly allied themselves with antimaskers and COVID cranks to oppose all public health interventions to slow the spread of the pandemic. 18/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/12/02/antivaxxers-anti-public-health/ …

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        18. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          It was thus a natural progression that right wing propaganda organs disguised as "think tanks" like @aier, with flacks like @PhilWMagness and @naomirwolf, have promoted #COVID19 misinformation under the guise of "freedom" and combatting "tyranny." 19/

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        19. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Add to that grifters like Scott Atlas of @HooverInst, more right wing propagandists disguised as a "think tank" (but one using its affiliation with @Stanford to gain the patina of academic credibility), and the activist wing of the antivaccine movement is firmly right wing. 20/

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        20. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          As a result, "freedom," "parental rights," etc., are now dog whistles for the antivaccine movement and, more recently, for antimaskers and #COVID19 cranks. 21/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/20/blowing-the-antivaccine-dog-whistle-again/ …

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        21. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          And, yes, it is true that there are left-wing antivaxxers, such as @RobertKennedyJr, but, unlike the case on the right, they do not have nearly the reach and they are marginalized by @TheDemocrats, not celebrated. 22/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/08/01/jill-stein-and-left-wing-antivaccine-dog-whistles/ …

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        22. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

          Unfortunately, this embrace of antivaccine messages by the right and populist movements has real and very negative consequences, as we have seen over the last year or so. 23/23

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        23. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 4

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

          Forgot to mention, here's an example of the sort of politician that's embraced antivaccine views. He was my state senator for eight years. 23a/23https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1378512344066707460?s=20 …

          David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

          David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskon
          Colbeck was, alas, my state senator. He was ahead of the curve among @MIGOP to become Trumpy. It overjoys me to see his conspiracy theory nonsense coming back to bite him. 1/ https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1378436102361595907 …
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