#Antivaxxers

David Gorski, MD, PhD

gorskon

One common characteristic of science denialists/cranks/conspiracy theorists like antivaxxers and #COVID19 deniers is black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking when it comes to medical tests or interventions. I'll tell you what I mean,

Ryan Marino

RyanMarino

Antivaxxers claim they aren’t against all vaccines, they just want “safer” vaccines (despite current vaccines being among the safest things in existence).Well, the new mRNA vaccines contain no preservative chemicals

Lord Kristine 🐮

Lord_Kristine

I think we need to stop treating the term “anti-science” like it’s some kind of ignorance bundle. Like, there’s overlap between antivaxxers and flat earthers, but I don’t think that

David Gorski, MD, PhD

gorskon

You'll hear me use the phrase a lot. There ARE antivaxxers. They are the leaders of the antivaccine movement, the bloggers, the conspiracy theorists. These are not the "vaccine-averse," "vaccine

Betty ☭🚩🏴🇮🇷

bruleebitch

I truly think Starmers threat to criminalise antivaxxers who are spreading misinformation about covid will be detrimental and add fuel to their fires. criminalising conspiracy theories only makes the followers

Rosewind

Rosewind2007

I want to talk about this too...I do think people often miss the whole point of “arguing with anti-vaxxers”.I AM NOT TRYING TO CHANGE THE MINDS OF THE ANTIVAXXERS!But what

Lauren Hough

laurenthehough

I don’t argue with covid hoaxers or antivaxxers because they always tell me to do research and I don’t want to. I believe in science so that I do not

David Gorski, MD, PhD

gorskon

You should see what antivaxxers and cancer quacks routinely do and have done to me (and fellow science communicators) over the last 16 years. A recap:1.) I've had many complaints

திராவிட மாமி

madrasmami23

#StoryTime with #MysoreRoyals , a story we can relate very much in these pandemic times !This painting records probably the world's first govt PHOTO OP to promote #Vaccination to counter

Millicent "captain of my soul" Bystander

cenobyte

Like. Okay. Let’s take a step back and look at the data. The majority of cases come from household or unknown contact scenarios. So that says businesses are, by and

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

I introduce the "Scary Virus Paradox":"After clearing a threshold, the less deadly a virus is, the more it will kill." (Deadliness here defined as R0 * IFR)(log-log graph)This is obviously

Ryan Marino

RyanMarino

It’s wild that police are comfortable pepper spraying protestors sitting in a public park & arresting anyone, but not helping when someone posts my address online & says their thousands

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artimusfoul

*Everyone* falls for disinformation. No one is immune. We all have fallen victim to fake news/disinformation. In the next few days it's even more imperative that we all are vigilant

Mark Toshner

mark_toshner

Next vaccine thingy to address. Getting asked mostly about long term vaccine effects. Important to be straight/honest. Nobody knows yet. Best way to understand the future is to look at

Ubaka Ogbogu

UbakaOgbogu

THREAD: One key message in Justice Kirker's decision today is that courts have no jurisdiction to assess the "effectiveness" of government health policies. This was in response to the argument

Taggart Rehnn

TaggartRehnn

Thread: On #Covid_19 #Covid quality of care, correct me if I’m wrong. 1/The Pfizer-Biontech vaccine (PBV) protects 2abt 94.5% of the recipients. It also protects ppl 50+ older 4a period

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