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9 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
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Look, I'm not a medical doctor, I'm just a humble physicist. But I can tell you with some assurance that no one is being MAGNETIZED by vaccines.
That is... really something. Image
*Furiously hammering a nail into my own arm*
OH YEAH, THEN EXPLAIN WHY THIS STICKS.
The speaker in the first video appears to be a doctor who claims that vaccines do not prevent infections. On her website she claims that they “cause disease.” ImageImageImage
A lot of people invoking Magneto here, but is anyone brave enough to call for a fully vaccinated Sir @IanMcKellen to put spoons and forks all over himself to see if they stick.
“Senator Kelly, what I am trying to tell you — what I am trying to explain to this committee — is that something is activating the mutant X-gene.”

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Greg Abbott has been a practicing vegetarian for years, this is so disingenuous.
His family made their fortune off quinoa and other ancient grains.
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Albert Einstein, age 26, submitted his paper "Concerning an Heuristic Point of View Toward the Emission and Transformation of Light" to Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. It explained the photoelectric effect and established the reality of quanta.
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Mathematician Grace Chisolm Young, author or co-author of a host of articles and books on set theory, geometry, topology, and calculus, and the first woman to officially earn a doctoral degree from the University of Göttingen, was born #OTD in 1868.
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