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7 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The unvaccinated described as being treated like "second class citizens"? I wonder if @reason knows that that's rhetoric straight from the antivaccine movement dating back as long as I've been paying attention to antivaxxers (nearly two decades). Not a good look.
I suppose that next @reason will be comparing the unvaccinated to the "new civil rights movement."🙄
Hmmm. @reason seven years ago vs Reason now...
So one wonders why @reason didn't say unvaccinated children were being treated like "second class citizens" in 2015, but nearly seven years later are describing them just that way...

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This is a very old antivax trope. Antivaxxers have been claiming that vaccines cause infertility for as long as I can remember since I first started paying attention to the antivaccine movement. Unfortunately, this claim resonates. The disinformation works. 1/
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Oh, bloody hell @CBSMornings, dowsing? Really? Dowsing. Presented as though there is something to it. “Everything is not about science? Have a little faith.” Ugh.
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Surprise, surprise. We've been warning about this for 20 years. Few listened, and many of our fellow physicians were even "shruggies," who dismissed our warnings as trivial and unimportant, right up until right before the pandemic.
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Sigh. Just when I thought @Twitter was doing a bit better, it goes and amplifies this as “science.” Image
Geez, @Twitter and @TwitterSafety, this is the worst one yet, straight up antivax misinformation tagged as “science.” It’s not even subtle. Image
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You know, @bmj_latest, when two of the biggest antivax propaganda sites in the world are loudly touting a badly sourced, conspiracy mongering bit of "investigational journalism" you commissioned from crank @thackerpd, you are doing it wrong and spreading antivax disinformation.
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