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Sep 9, 2020 3 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Sturgis was both predicted and predictable: Here's what I said one month ago (Aug 1) on Day 1 of #sturgis2020 #Sturgis #SturgisMotorcycleRally #SturgisRally
On either this or another segment, I remember saying (sarcastically) “What? Bring 250,000 bikers from parts of the nation where #COVID19 is raging, and have them pile into bars, with no masks out of defiance? What could go wrong?”
Aug 7 on Day 1

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Sep 24
1/n I’m concerned: the health disinformation empire has begun accelerating with this new RFK Jr GOP partnership, also worried about the muted/invisible response from our U.S. HHS agencies, health professional societies/academic health centers. Troubling pics in this thread… Image
2/n …and this Image
3/n …and this Image
Read 7 tweets
Sep 21
1/n Tomorrow or soon, I will do a Tweet X thread on how the antivaccine, health & wellness, nutrition supplements industries joined forces with far right American politics to generate “crisis of chronic illness” propaganda. It’s an interesting story 25+ years in the making
2/n This is a slide from a PowerPoint I made years ago, looking at how the antivaccine movement has evolved (or devolved), it ends with "Chronic illness", which is really a desperation measure from the antivaccine movement after the scientific community debunked everything else Image
3/n I call it “moving the goalposts” or “whack-a-mole” and it stems from my Rachel book written in 2018. What happens is antivaccine groups make an outlandish assertion about a vaccine(s), we debunk it, and so they just make up something else, we debunk again and repeat… Image
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Sep 17
1/n Pediatricians 'exhausted' as vaccinations drop in DeSantis' Florida.

As I sometimes say, this situation was both predicted and predictable. My papers attached. I’m so concerned about our fragile vaccine ecosystem both in U.S. and globally tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…
2/n my 2022 article in @Nature @NatRevImmunol nature.com/articles/s4157…
@Nature @NatRevImmunol 3/n my 2023 article in @Health_Affairs

healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…
Read 7 tweets
Sep 5
1/n Texas has an economy/population roughly the size of Canada. However there were 50,000 Covid deaths in Canada vs 100,000 in Texas. The reason: widespread COVID vaccine refusal in TX, 40,000-50,000 victims of a national/political health disinformation campaign. Paper attached
2/n I call this “The Great Texas COVID Tragedy” here’s my article in @PLOS @PLOSGPH written 2 years ago journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…
@PLOS @PLOSGPH 3/n Here’s the situation on Covid deaths in Canada statista.com/statistics/110…
Read 4 tweets
Aug 25
My goodness what’s happening at @Stanford? This is awful, a full on anti-science agenda (and revisionist history), tone deaf to how this kind of rhetoric contributed to the deaths of thousands of Americans during the pandemic by convincing them to shun vaccines or minimize Covid
The program indicates the new Stanford President will headline the symposium. While I’m all for free speech, this type of anti-science aggression doesn’t have to be promoted by the Stanford leadership, given the chilling message it sends to the serious science faculty/students
Therefore I hope the Stanford President reconsiders and instead focuses his attention on the important scientific projects underway on his campus, and not this nonsense
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Aug 25
1/n But…this simply not true, my book Vaccines Did Not Cause Autism @JHUPress has 20+ pages of scientific references like the one I attached to this tweet. In fact all of my books are carefully referenced, and at Johns Hopkins University Press, also peer-reviewed.
2/n here’s a picture of one of the 20+ pages of scientific references in the book. Image
3/n also I don’t take any funds from big pharma and the talking points are mine and consistent. We make low-cost, often patent-free vaccines for low- and middle-income countries, 100 million doses administered so far, which bypass big pharma.
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