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Mashup Score: 9Antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. writes to Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi about measles in the middle of an outbreak - 2 year(s) ago
As measles killed, antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
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Mashup Score: 4Retracted papers never die in the age of COVID-19 - 2 year(s) ago
Papers about COVID-19 that are retracted tend to be cited far more than average and continue to be heavily cited after retraction.
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Last month, a study showed that papers about #COVID19 that are retracted tend to be cited far more than average and continue to be heavily cited after retraction. Clearly, scientific publishing and the scientific community need to do better. https://t.co/Fc10eRW8dp
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Mashup Score: 6Anti-vaccine warriors vs. research ethics, revisited - 2 year(s) ago
A couple of weeks ago, the anti-vaccine movement took a swing for the fences and, as usual, made a mighty whiff that produced a breeze easily felt in the bleachers. In brief, a crew of anti-vaccine lawyers named headed by Mary Holland, co-author of Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten […]
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I've written about Mary Holland and her antivax activism many times dating back a decade at least. Here's an example from 2011. https://t.co/mek1LOV73I
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Mashup Score: 4
Zoe O’Toole, aka “The Professor” at The Thinking Moms’ Revolution, likes to think she’s figured out this whole science thing. Her falling for “crooked theory,” an impressively daft piece of antivaccine pseudoscience by Forrest Maready, shows her self-delusion on that score.
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As for Zoey O'Toole, she used to blot at The Thinking Moms Revolution under the 'nym The Professor. Let's just say that she is anything but. Here's an example from 2018 of her believing one of the more ridiculous pre-COVID antivax claims. https://t.co/OtXujZTaMt
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Mashup Score: 1
Why do antivaxxers reject the very concept of a scientific consensus and promote a hyper-individualistic view of how science should be done?
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Neil deGrasse Tyson invoked the concept of a scientific consensus while supporting vaccines in his debate with Del Bigtree, triggering to antivaxxers. Why do antivaxxers reject the very concept of a scientific consensus? https://t.co/77qgGmSsmL
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Mashup Score: 6In which Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree's antivaccine documentary VAXXED is reviewed...with Insolence! - 2 year(s) ago
Andrew Wakefield has directed and released an antivaccine propaganda “documentary.” It’s so blatant in its manipulation of facts that it would make Leni Reifenstahl blush.
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Also, when did Sheila Ealey become "Dr." Sheila Ealey? She appeared in the antivax propaganda "documentary" VAXXED in 2016 because she believed that the MMR vaccine had caused her son's autism. She also claimed her son's medical records were stolen. https://t.co/jBR1iYPCXe
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Mashup Score: 1Lying with statistics in Florida, COVID-19 vaccine edition - 2 year(s) ago
Authors of a Florida Department of Health study finding COVID-19 vaccines to be riskier than COVID appears to have lied with statistics.
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Lying with statistics in Florida, COVID-19 vaccine edition https://t.co/hDmzr1sidX via @gorskon
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Mashup Score: 4
RFK Jr. is apparently planning to challenge President Biden for the Democratic Presidential nomination. WTF is going on?
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is apparently planning to challenge President Biden for the Democratic Presidential nomination. WTF is going on? https://t.co/L8nJR3R74D
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Mashup Score: 7
The CDC updated its estimated autism prevalence. Antivaxxers blame the increase on “environmental factors,” or: “Vaccines are to blame.”
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The CDC updated its estimated autism prevalence. Antivaxxers blame the increase on "environmental factors," or: "Vaccines are to blame." https://t.co/ZnkFcrO4yv
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Mashup Score: 7
A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism, reminding me of MMS.
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A recent @VICE story described a @Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to “cure” autism by eliminating “parasites.” https://t.co/Rfxnmjza2l
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I mean, if going to Samoa prepandemic during a deadly measles outbreak that had killed over 70 children, fear mongering about the measles vaccine, and writing a letter to the Prime Minister to say MMR was dangerous isn't antivaccine, I don't know what is. https://t.co/gv2walf3qN