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For many years I’ve been a scientist.

After studying Biomedicine, and then Medical Pathology science, I undertook postgrad studies in immunology and biochemical reactions in preterm neonates.

I’ve grown tired of #AntiVax pseudoscience, the destructiveness that their message
has caused in places like #Samoa with their current #Measles crisis, with 53 deaths in the last couple of weeks.

I’ve grown tired of the pompous self-righteousness of AVs posting images of themselves on Social Media, & thinking that they’re doing a great thing
by sending packets of Vitamin A over to Samoa, whilst it was their message, and visits by Taylor Winterstein & Robert F. Kennedy jr that has sparked this crisis.

I am sickened that AVs write Measles off as “just a RASH” whilst ignoring the fantastic work of
ER/ED and ICU staff in hospitals alleviating both primary viral and secondary bacterial infections as “no-one died in our country” whilst then rubbishing doctors as “they don’t study vaccines or side effects” like the AV have ANY idea what actually goes on in medical school,
hospital rotations, board exams, and specialty certification exams.

It frustrates me, as a clinical scientist, that I’m often told to “do research” as if my years of study, years with examinations, and years of clinical and non-clinical investigations are trumped by Google or
YouTube “research.”

It frustrates me that even teaching and tutoring in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anatomy and Pathology, that somehow conspiracy theory Google searches and YouTube videos are a gold-standard form of “research.”

The time has come for doctors, scientists,
clinicians, and all medically and scientifically trained people to come together and become intolerant of these pseudoscience cultists that presume a few highlighted Inserts, some YouTube videos claiming conspiracy garbage as legitimate, and speaking out against this garbage.
The WHO didn’t place vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten threats to public health at a whim.

AntiVaxxers threaten the health and well-being of our countries, and continue to spread their nonsense with little opposition.

#ItsOKtovaccinate #vaccineswork
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