#Antivaxxers

David Gorski, MD, PhD

This is a new #COVID19 antivax meme going around, although the comparison is nothing new. White, privileged, entitled antivaxxers do so love comparing their "plight" to slavery, as though being

Here's something to consider, #antivaxxersYou aren't an expert. So when you choose to believe Expert A over Expert B, you're doing that based on NOTHING AT ALL.To put this into

David Gorski, MD, PhD

It can’t. This is the same kind of messaging debacle that happened two decades ago when thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines “out of an overabundance of caution,” even though

There’s a political cartoon going around that depicts a a fat antivaxxer sitting on the ball part of a ball and chain that’s attached to the ankle of a bald

arkancide_is_real

Arkancideisreal

Disgraceful "journalism" by @deborah_knight and @AMA_media disparaging "Anti-vaxxers" as people who should "butt out" of the conversation.There is no such thing as a coronavirus vaccine, and won't be for years.You

David Gorski, MD, PhD

I've been warning about the likelihood of antivaxxers arming themselves and becoming violent for years. Now it appears to be on the verge of happening, with "Mamalitia." 1/https://twitter.com/RMCarpiano/status/1387960353682649

David Gorski, MD, PhD

It is truly depressing to see straw men arguments like this from academics. This is a straw man so massive that, were it to be set on fire, the crew

I was so worried about #antivaxxers as soon as the vaccines appeared. They're going to do so much damage, I thought, leaping on every little side effect. 1/9 Sure, they're

rhea witchilante - fire in a skin suit 🔥

People who call themselves healers but are just antivaxxers with essential oils in your purses, can you just... not?The integrative holistic practitioners are trying to work here And now, telehealth

timethief (retired paralegal judicial assistant)

1. Have you noticed when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they double down in the teeth of overwhelming evidence against them? The

AlgorithmDancer

@NicolleDWallace please don’t compare Russia deniers to the fake term “antivaxxers” I am an @ewarren democrat. My son got seriously injured by a vaccine, from a cause listed on the

Date ideas for quarantine (A thread) Trip balls in your local Publix or Trader Joe’s the mask on makes it 10x more intense Tame a local pigeon since all the

Voices for Vaccines

Voices4Vaccines

What #TuckerCarlson got wrong about #VAERS. A thread. tl;dr #VaccinesWork #VaccinesAreSafe #TuckerCarlsonMustGo #wecandothis #ThisIsOurShot But look at all these terrible deaths on #VAERS, #TuckerCarlson says? Not so fast! Look

oneunderscore__

“Stifling free speech” here is appending more speech (a tiny flag from Twitter) below his speech.https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1265427539008380928 It was always headed towards this precise moment.Social media companies didn

Interesting new paper out in Nature today! Paper finding: anti-vaccine groups are more adept at interlinking with "fence-sitter" communities and unrelated communities than pro-vaccine groups. Here's why this matters...https://www.nature

David Gorski, MD, PhD

This is not new. It has actually been a long time coming. I've been writing about how antivaxxers have coopted far right rhetoric and have been becoming more extreme. Unfortunately