"No matter what your associations may or may not be, getting people vaccinated with quality vaccines is the #1 issue right now and it is the path back to liberty most likely to succeed and prove sustainable." 14/
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"If you are not really enthusiastic about that, I think, frankly, that you are out to lunch." 15/
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So Martin, Jay and Sunetra are denialists. They don't have to deny SARSCOV2 is the cause of COVID19 to fit that bill. They fit the profile, use the tactics, described by Diethelm and McKee and many others. 16/
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I've seen denialism in AIDS. I've also seen it in another field I've been associated with evolutionary biology and it's always "teach the controversy," as if there were merit in the arguments promulgated by these folks. 17/
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I am not interested in promoting or elevating their views. You can call me close-minded, fearful of being "proven wrong," whatever you like. These people have done enormous damage. I will continue to call their tactics, methods out. GBD "science" is not worth engaging with. end/
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Replying to @gregggonsalves @WesPegden and
It’s good you don’t mind being described as closed minded, because that’s literally the only way this thread could be described. If you’d have lived a few centuries ago you’d have enthusiastically burned heretics at the stake.
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Replying to @jab399 @gregggonsalves and
Re: "If you’d have lived a few centuries ago you’d have enthusiastically burned heretics at the stake." It's ironic that in a thread on denialism that mentions HIV/AIDS denialism, you almost verbatim abuse HIV/AIDS denialists' tropes. from
@aetiology: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040256 …pic.twitter.com/ISDSM7M0x6
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Replying to @AtomsksSanakan @jab399 and
This is a very common trope among science deniers, that the "brave maverick scientist" spouting nonsense is "silenced" and "persecuted" for "questioning" current scientific understanding.
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Replying to @gorskon @AtomsksSanakan and
Yeah, just because people think you’re wrong don’t make you Galileo
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan.
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