Thread by @usnehal

I would say that society is at fault. The government was not behind Jenny McCarthy, Oprah, Dr. Oz, etc.
#vaccine #VaccinesSaveLives #VaccinesWork #MedTwitter #ScienceTwitter

https://twitter.com/peterhotez/status/1382355746147467267

What the government DID do wrong: “#security” & espionage via vaccines Frankenstein monster unleashed on Muslims

If the US government does do things like this it’s not a “#conspiracy”

...all while what led to #CapitolRiots was brewing 🤦🏻‍♀️

@PeterHotez

npr.org/sections/thetw…

If Prius-driving Whole Foods-consuming suburbanites would STOP #misinformation #disinformation to #trauma ridden #refugee populations

(trauma->fear)

the jobs of minority & Muslim doctors would not be so hard

This is lack of *societal* control
of the most privileged
who HARM

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1255218923529744387

Experience of past #trauma makes people vulnerable to #conspiracy

On top of that if the government has ABUSED access to #publichealth for espionage

then, no, the government cannot possibly offer the answer
Trust broken

#MedTwitter #COVID19 #vaccine

trauma.blog.yorku.ca/2021/01/the-ps…

I literally volunteer my time making #SciComm #vaccine #education videos in multiple languages to COUNTER government harm WHILE as a Muslim I do not feel safe in my own country.

(Meanwhile university & hospital paid #SciComm market for hospital profit, not #minorityhealth)

@PeterHotez I trained at @TexasChildrens @bcmhouston did the Feigin elective & peds ID rotation prior as a med student from #Pakistan

I respect your #science #COVID19 knowledge

on minority issues in TX/U.S. & government

at times you are out of touch
government is NOT all good

I do my best to try to make my government more trustworthy:

working in #Medicaid
+
volunteering as trusted outreach to on #communityhealth #education 4 gov’t
+ protesting

COMMUNITIES, not gov’t mandates to coerce or silence, get this work done

Give credit to communities

community of biggest #COVID19 #vaccine challenge

is religious
protected by 1st amendment on religion
+ freedom of speech

The godian knot of #healthcare #policy to untangle

how to address this without violating the #Constitution or harming BIPOC?

nytimes.com/2021/04/12/opi…

This religious community’s #health leaders populated Trump administration’s #health advisers

They WERE government
yet failed to convince “their own” on #vaccine (tweets see above)

#Community #leadership failure, not government failure

#MedTwitter

washingtonpost.com/national/healt…

These are not my words
= headline from @ForeignPolicy to describe doctors in government trusted with #SciComm #communication on #publichealth during #COVID19 #pandemic

Doctors NOT holding Wakefield to standards is origin of #anti-vaxx
#MedTwitter

foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/23/mee…

I tweet a lot on #professionalism #communication #SciComm

Why is it that the doctor community does NOT hold some peers to standards

while we allow the government to terrorize & harass minority (here, Muslim) physicians getting #vaccine into arms?

medscape.com/viewarticle/94…

Silencing only one part of American society harms, especially in #COVID19 #pandemic

anti-vaxx outcomes = failure to hold accountable those w/ MOST power & privilege in society

while criminalization of minorities doing necessary outreach

#MedTwitter

npr.org/sections/codes…

Another comparison

If we had had 1/10th this level of suspicion or scrutiny of Andrew Wakefield who came from an “elite” medical family of UK
->prevent his fraud

He violated almost every #ethics standard of medicine

@PeterHotez double standards are our problem

#MedTwitter

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1348369849156833280

It’s really not hard - despite tortured narratives crafted post hoc

consistent
STANDARDS
for EVERYBODY

stops fraudsters, quacks, abusers very early on

Btw:Co-authors? stayed silent?

LISTEN TO
the most vulnerable
they are the first to be abused

#MedTwitter
#MedEd
#research

If you see behaviors & actions
that do not meet #ethics standards

then claims to be “persecuted” or “harassed” as Wakefield did

where allegations of harm are from children, elderly, BIPOC, women, LGBTQ, disabled

Red flag
Look for abuse
Take it from a #pediatrician
My job 👇

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1382267021413515265

@PeterHotez please take your existing outreach within the #science community #SciComm

expand it to be inclusive/effective in communities harmed by gov’t

government cannot fix #accountability of #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter or system level medical racism

ama-assn.org/delivering-car…

Political
/pəˈlidək(ə)l/
adj
“relating to the government or the public affairs of a country”

Science has always been political

Maintain #science standards & #ethics regardless of politicians’ pressure

SELF regulate better
#MedTwitter
#AcademicTwitter

scientificamerican.com/article/yes-sc…

As for the inside of academia if we could spend more time learning and collaborating

rather than politics, backstabbing - have common ethics when faced with political pressures

Gossip fails as “control”:

#AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #AcademicChatter

timeshighereducation.com/news/academic-…

Instead of “scholars use gossip to warn others of wrongdoers”

That is ripe for abuse

GUARANTEED that Wakefield
from a respected doctor family: protected

#AcademicTwitter needs to start to have a culture of #accountability TO prevent next Wakefield & be pro-science
#MedTwitter

All the #COVID19 #pandemic results we have, #vaccine distrust, #mortality are a direct, predictable outcomes of how the system built & operated

When #academia & #science clean up own house, then will have the beneficial effect on society (via government) should have
#MedTwitter

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