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2 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Or conflating “I personally don’t know anyone affected by this” with “No one is affected by this.”
Or “I personally have never seen it before” with “It’s not a problem.”
And the ever-popular appeal to personal ignorance or incredulity...
And the ever popular “Science changes its conclusions based on new evidence so we can’t know anything for sure.”🙄

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Oh, bloody hell. @RobertKennedyJr has been cozying up to minority communities for a number of years now to spread fear of vaccines. Let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we? 1/
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Ugh, @nola_catholics! The Church has said time and time again that the great good of vaccinating outweighs the distant “evil” of how the cell lines were derived. People will die because of you. Catholics (and everyone else) should take the first #CovidVaccine they can get!
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Wow. Just wow. I don't think @noorchashm is there yet, but he's definitely sliding towards becoming antivaccine. He's now praising @RobertKennedyJr over provaccine advocates. Let's remind him a bit about RFK, Jr., shall we? 1/
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WTF, @PolitiFact? I just learned from @BarryKarr that you marked an article by me on @ScienceBasedMed posted to @center4inquiry's @Facebook page as "False and spreading disinformation." Again, WTF? This is the article. 1/ sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-mrna-based…
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You know, the first time I wrote about @noorchashm, I thought that maybe I had been too hard on him when I called him a "useful idiot" for the antivaccine movement. Now that I see he's appeared on @lifebiomedguru's show, I realize that my gut instinct about him was spot-on. 1/
Let's take a trip down memory lane about @lifebiomedguru for @noorchashm's benefit. You might remember that it didn't take long for him to pivot to #COVID19 crankery last year. 2/ sciencebasedmedicine.org/james-lyons-we…
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28 Feb
Laughter. And to respond that I'm not going to watch a 2+ hour video by some rando on Twitter about just about anything, much less pushing dubious science. I have better things to do with my time.
If he summarizes his objections and whatever evidence he can muster in the form of an article no more than twice the word count of my blog post, I might engage, but there's no way in hell I'm sitting through such a long video that gave me a headache after 5 minutes.
Seriously, argument by YouTube is the LEAST likely way to get my attention, as I am not going to watch a two hour YouTube video on just about anything.🙄
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