Apparently Mr. Heller does not understand infectious disease epidemiology or that no vaccine is 100% effective. He is repeating one of the oldest, dumbest antivax tropes.https://twitter.com/Tony__Heller/status/1418998386053713921 …
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Replying to @gorskon
Hahahahahaha. Tony Heller is known as an insufferable climate change denier. His COVID denier schick looks exactly the same. More proof that the Venn Diagram of climate change deniers and COVID cranks is a circle.
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I like to call it "crank magnetism," after
@MarkHoofnagle and his brother's coining.3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes -
I’ve thought about this for a long time & I don’t think that this is what’s happening. It isn’t just any crank belief that gets adopted - it’s ones that align with a worldview & that have political leaders adopting them. It’s a failure of leadership, not of anti-crank debunking
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Yes and no. For instance, active anti-vaxxers (who these days tend to be politically conservative) also tend to gravitate to anti-GMO, which tends to be more associated with liberals. Yes, crank magnetism tends to cluster by worldview, but nowhere near always.
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Replying to @gorskon @ClimateOfGavin and
John Mashey Retweeted Charles #GetVaxxed! 💉
There are weird mixes. Marin County in CA was a hotbed of anti-vax ~2015, when CA was beefing up vaccine mandates ... and it's most COVID-vaccinated county in CA. https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1408266475912171525 … https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/27/californias-epidemic-of-vaccine-denial-mapped/ …
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Although the prevalence of antivax beliefs has remained fairly even among the right and the left, since SB 277 in 2015 there has been a marked shift to the far right among the *activist* antivaxxers. Today, the loudest, most influential antivaxxers are almost all on the right.
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Replying to @gorskon @ClimateOfGavin and
John Mashey Retweeted John Mashey
Agreed, consistent with voting data in CA legislature:on SB277:https://twitter.com/JohnMashey/status/1059303945233821699 …
John Mashey added,
John Mashey @JohnMasheyCA0/ Two CA laws showed stark partisan science divide SB.277 (2015) required vaccinations SB-7 (2016) raised legal tobacco age to 21. 80% (D) voted Yes on both, for science & health. 80% (R) voted No (or NVR + tobacco$, ~masked Nos), for kids' sickness & adolescents' addiction pic.twitter.com/Bzh76vM4VEShow this thread0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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