Thread by @gorskon

I wonder if @brownstoneinst is aware that this article is parroting a longstanding antivaccine talking point going back to even earlier than the two decades since I've been writing about antivaxxers? 1/

https://twitter.com/brownstoneinst/status/1480570319370964992

Absent the reference to #COVID19 and #CovidVaccine, this article by Jared McBrady could be mistaken for any number of articles about the "horror" of vaccine mandates published on antivax blogs circa 2005. 2/

Likening vaccine mandates to slavery, Nazi persecution of Jews, Jim Crow, totalitarianism, and the Rwandan genocide, as McBrady does, is classic antivax. Absolutely classic! All that's lacking is for McBrady to liken vaccine mandates to rape. 3/

No doubt the scientific advisor of @brownstoneinst @MartinKulldorff and its founder @jeffreyatucker will oh-so-self-righteously deny that this article is antivax (or that Brownstone is). My response? If you don't want to be called "antivax," stop parroting old antivax tropes! 4/

I mean, seriously, Mr. Tucker and Dr. Kulldorff. You're fooling *no one* who knows *anything* about the antivaccine movement. You're regurgitating all the classic talking points. 5/5

Oh, geez. I just noticed that Jared McBrady is an assistant professor of surgery. He really should know better than to make comparisons like this, but apparently he doesn't. 6/6