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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 Jul 24

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Tony Heller

      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 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Tony Heller @Tony__Heller
      COVID alarmists believe their vaccine keeps them safe, yet are afraid that other people who don't get vaccines will kill them. Fascinating thought process. https://twitter.com/swedishchf/status/1418996971973464066 …
      15 replies 42 retweets 254 likes
    2. Brian Brettschneider‏ @Climatologist49 Jul 24
      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.

      1 reply 3 retweets 22 likes
    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 24
      Replying to @Climatologist49

      I like to call it "crank magnetism," after @MarkHoofnagle and his brother's coining.

      3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    4. Gavin Schmidt‏Verified account @ClimateOfGavin Jul 24
      Replying to @gorskon @Climatologist49 @MarkHoofnagle

      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

      3 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 24
      Replying to @ClimateOfGavin @Climatologist49 @MarkHoofnagle

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. John Mashey‏ @JohnMashey Jul 24
      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/ …

      John Mashey added,

      Charles #GetVaxxed!  💉Verified account @charles_gaba
      CALIFORNIA. R^2 is up to 0.7522 today. pic.twitter.com/ojmkJyvPkK
      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 24
      Replying to @JohnMashey @ClimateOfGavin and

      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.

      4:49 PM - 24 Jul 2021
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        1. John Mashey‏ @JohnMashey Jul 24
          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 @JohnMashey
          CA0/ 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/Bzh76vM4VE
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