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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 3 min read
If you think @MartyMakary has any credibility left on #COVID19, then consider this. He's citing @RobertKennedyJr's antivax propaganda site @ChildrensHD. Yikes! RFK Jr. is the one who 16 years ago popularized the myth that mercury in vaccines causes autism.🙄
Since then, RFK Jr. has been one of the leaders of the antivaccine movement. Of late, he's been doing his best to demonize #CovidVaccines with pseudoscience, bad science, and conspiracy theories. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-covid-19-v…
Here's a hint for @MartyMakary. If you have to cite a rabidly antivax group led by someone who's been a leader of the antivax movement for >16 years to support your argument, maybe your argument is not so good.🙄
It turns out that, if anything, @MarkHoofnagle was not harsh enough in his characterization of the good Prof. Makary.🤦🏻‍♂️

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This is just the next step in a longstanding antivax strategy to portray themselves as an oppressed minority. Their misuse of the Yellow Star of David is the most egregious example of course. 1/
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