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Holy crap. @PGtzsche1, formerly of @CochraneNordic, has gone full on antivax. Here he is scheduled to speak at a workshop for the antivax doctors group with the Orwellian name Physicians for Informed Consent (@picphysicians). 1/
At this event in Costa Mesa, CA, @PGtzsche1 will be appearing with hard core antivaxers, like @RobertKennedyJr, @tonibark, and antivax lawyers Mary Holland and @JaffeRick, the latter of whom was cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski’s lawyer. 2/ physiciansforinformedconsent.org/workshop/
These are NOT borderline cases. These are hard core antivaxers and quacks (and the lawyers who defend them while advocating to make federal and state law more quackery- and antivax-friendly). 3/
.@PGtzsche1's talk will be entitled "How Mandatory Vaccination Violates Medical Ethics." Yet he's sharing the same stage with Mary Holland, whose "research" trying to link vaccines to autism violated a number of ethical rules, including no IRB approval. 4/ respectfulinsolence.com/2011/05/24/ant…
I wonder what @PGtzsche1 would say about a pharmaceutical company or even just an academic who flouted the rules by doing human subjects research and really crappy human subjects research at that, as Mary Holland appears to have done. 5/ respectfulinsolence.com/2011/05/11/ano…
That's not all about Mary Holland. Despite her law degree and faculty position, she is well known for her rather...fanciful...portrayals of vaccine law, for instance here... 6/ justthevax.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-du…
Humans is also known for poisoning the literature with pseudoscience- arms misinformation-laden books. 7/ respectfulinsolence.com/2011/02/18/eth…
I could go on, but you get the idea. What about @tonibark? Well, she's a "holistic" doctor, as well as a naturopath and a homeopath# and was a featured speaker on the Conspira-Sea Cruise, a crankfest full of the looniest loons you can think of. 8/ respectfulinsolence.com/2011/02/18/eth…
More recently, she was featured in an antivaccine confab known as One Conversation, along with a bunch of other antivaxers. 9/ respectfulinsolence.com/2018/09/13/one…
Indeed, @tonibark had earned an entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons, a position she richly deserves. 10/ americanloons.blogspot.com/2015/04/1345-t…
Moving on, @RobertKennedyJr needs no introduction, but I'll say a bit anyway. I've been countering his insanely ludicrous antivax propaganda since 2005. 11/ oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/06/salonc…
Let's just say that @RobertKennedyJr never fails to bring home the antivax crazy, ever. For instance, here he was in 2007 saying that if you criticize antivaxers you must hate mothers. 12/ respectfulinsolence.com/2007/06/21/rob…
More recently, @RobertKennedyJr had teamed up with antivax reporter @sharylattkisson to flood a new antivaccine conspiracy theory about the Autism Omnibus proceedings. 13/ respectfulinsolence.com/2019/01/09/sha…
This conspiracy theory had rooted in a useful idiot named Dr. Andrew Zimmerman. 14/ respectfulinsolence.com/2019/01/17/zim…
But what about @JaffeRick? He's pumped for this antivaccine crankfest where he'll be speaking. 15/
Five years ago, I wrote about how @JaffeRick was cancer quack @DrStanBurzynski's legal pit bull and how he pioneered the abuse of the @US_FDA's clinical trial process to let #Burzynski continue to con desperate cancer patients. 16/ csicop.org/si/show/stanis…
These days, @JaffeRick has latched onto defending a new breed of quacks, those who run for-profit stem cell clinics selling unproven treatments for huge sums of money. 17/ respectfulinsolence.com/2017/11/21/fda…
In fairness, though, even @JaffeRick seems to be uncomfortable with the sheer level of pseudoscience and quackery being sold by these clinics. OTOH, it's less the quackery than the fear that going too far will provoke @US_FDA to crack down. 18/ respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/08/ric…
As am amusing aside, @JaffeRick is not happy that moves are being made to make it harder for doctors to receive CME credit for studying "integrative medicine" quackery. 19/ respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/08/ric…
So @PGtzsche1 has associated himself with quite the wretched hive of scum and antivaccine quackery these days. @picphysicians is nothing more than a pseudoscience- and quackery-spewing antivax group trading on the trust we have in doctors to promote dangerous misinformation. 20/
My good buddy @skepticalraptor has the lowdown on @picphysicians. 21/ skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrapto…
Sadly, @picphysicians routinely spreads dangerous antivax misinformation. 22/ skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrapto…
So let's just put it this way. For @PGtzsche1 to agree to appear at a @picphysicians event with a bunch of hard core antivaxers like @RobertKennedyJr, Mary Holland, and @tonibark and a quack defender like @JaffeRick is NOT a good look. 23/
I used to try to give @PGtzsche1 the benefit of the doubt. No more. He no longer merits it. 24/
The bottom line is that @PGtzsche1 had become an antivaccine crank and deserves to be dismissed as such, just like the quacks he'll be appearing with in a month in Costa Mesa at the @picphysicians event. It's sad, but unfortunately true. 25/25
Holland is also...🤦♂️
Has pulled in🤦♂️ a useful idiot. Damn. Maybe I should delete and repost this thread.
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