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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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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Aug 8

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Aaron Rupar

    He's right, but I don't see how it could have been avoided in our hyper-polarized politics right now. The way was paved pre-pandemic when antivaxxers managed to entice the right to ally itself with them to oppose school vaccine mandates.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1424377897872150530 …

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    Dr. Francis Collins: "How did we get here? Why is it that a mandate about a vaccine or wearing a mask suddenly becomes a statement of your political party? We never should've let that happen. Come on, America." pic.twitter.com/bdzjk7JJe5
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      1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Aug 8

        Once #COVID19 hit, it was, alas, a natural pivot for @GOP and the right to continue that resistance to public health interventions against the pandemic, including allying themselves with antivaxxers against #CovidVaccine mandates of any kind.

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      2. Joshua Crawford‏ @JoshCrawfordNE Aug 8
        Replying to @gorskon @DemFromCT

        I trace this back to early 2020 when Trump and his supporters saw that the pandemic was going to be a liability and reacted in a way to defend him.

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      3. Joshua Crawford‏ @JoshCrawfordNE Aug 8
        Replying to @JoshCrawfordNE @gorskon @DemFromCT

        The idea of just doing what was right never entered Trump's mind. It was more "I need to defend myself from looking bad."

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      2. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle Aug 8
        Replying to @gorskon

        It’s so embarassing. How long have we been writing about this? And the leading scientists in this country still act shocked, *shocked* when they learn there are pseudoscientists out there bending facts to their advantage? Comms is hard, buy a helmet Francis.

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      1. Koala‏ @mindfulkoala Aug 8
        Replying to @gorskon

        Long term information warfare works.

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      2. Runnergirl12‏ @RungirlPs91 Aug 9
        Replying to @gorskon @noUpside

        I think anti-vax movement was underestimated & we consigned them to simply mommy blogs, etc. Pre-Trump they targeted GOP to indoctrinate them into opposing vaccine requirements in schools. They had a plan & executed it. National health agencies didn’t have robust response.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Aug 9
        Replying to @RungirlPs91 @noUpside

        Out of curiosity, a while back I looked up the first time I ever wrote about the alliance between @GOP and antivaxxers. It was around 10 years ago, when a California antivax group allied itself with the East Bay Area Tea Party around ten years ago.

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      1. Hussain Gilani‏ @hagilani Aug 9
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        “How did we get here?” I mean it’s pretty obvious. One political party cares more about the preservation of wealth by an elite few than they do about mass death and they have an information infrastructure that is very powerful. Pretty easy to explain.

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