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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"Natural immunity" by definition can't be as good as the vaccine because to get "natural immunity" you have to get sick with the disease and risk all of its complications. OF course, @billmaher has been an antivaxxer for many years; so none of this is surprising.
Seriously, the first time I wrote about @billmaher's antivax bleatings was in 2005. Of course, he's parroting old antivax tropes about "natural immunity." He was parroting them long before the first case of mysterious viral pneumonia appeared in Wuhan in late 2019.
Also, contrary to what the "natural herd immunity" advocates claim, "natural immunity" is probably no more durable than vaccine-induced immunity, which makes "natural herd immunity" impossible for this disease.
It's why #GreatBarringtonDeclaration would have been a disaster. sciencebasedmedicine.org/brownstone-ins…

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David Gorski, MD, PhD Profile picture
Feb 22
I wonder if Mr. Stephens and @nytopinion know much about the background of the first author of this @cochranecollab review, which is truly atrocious. Here, let's tell them.
We at @ScienceBasedMed, including @MarkCrislip, first noticed Tom Jefferson in 2009, when he started saying dubious things about the flu vaccine right as the H1N1 pandemic was bearing down.
For example, I first noticed him when he was invited in 2009 to an antivax conference to receive an award. (Guess why?) He apparently had the good sense to turn it down—then. sciencebasedmedicine.org/crank-conferen…
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Feb 20
Predictable. @GabrielleJBauer of @brownstoneinst just admitted that the key premise behind the "natural herd immunity" approach of @gbdeclaration was false—oopsie!—while touting #GreatBarringtonDeclaration has having been "vindicated." sciencebasedmedicine.org/brownstone-ins…
I mean, I laughed out loud when I read this passage, which is an implicit admission that what GBD critics, such as the John Snow Memorandum authors, were right all along that "natural herd immunity" is not achievable for #COVID19 because postinfection immunity is too short-lived. Image
While Bauer's article mostly focuses on "focused protection," recall that the very *concept* behind @gbdeclaration was that letting #SARSCoV2 rip through the "healthy population" would build up "natural immunity" and allow "natural herd immunity" to be achieved in 3-6 months.
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Jan 3
That took about as long as I thought it would, as in not long at all. Antivaxxers are so predictable.
Basically...
This is really embarrassing. @drdrew is a physician. He should know that a sudden hard blow to the chest can cause arrhythmia and cardiac arrest in athletes. Truly, he is antivax.
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Jan 2
Says the guy who wrote a book like this, which, I suppose, is “satire” too. But, hey, if I’ve been taken in I’ll ‘fess up, admit my mistake as not starting 2023 off too well, and take my lumps. I suspect that such is not the case, given the prominent blurb from RFK Jr.😏
In any event, since I forgot to Tweet a link to the post addressing his “gaslighting” narrative, here it is. I’ll let my readership tell me if I feel for some satire. It wouldn’t be the first time—or the last time—but I suspect it’s at least not this time. sciencebasedmedicine.org/was-2022-the-y…
I’ll even provide a link to his website, so that my readers can judge for themselves.😏 consentfactory.org
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Nov 5, 2022
Dr. Drew is officially antivax now. This particular antivax talking point completely ignores that elevated rush of cardiac events for a full year after #COVID19 infection. As this weren’t enough, he had RFK Jr. on his show.
Dr. Laxton brings the receipts.
And I wrote about @drdrew’s descent into full antivax here as part of a broader discussion. It ain’t even subtle. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-making-of-…
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Nov 3, 2022
I explicitly warned about the politicization of vaccines nearly six years ago.
Here's the receipt. respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-…
I also warned about how increasingly @GOP was becoming the antivaccine party when I discussed the second GOP presidential debate in September 2015. sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-a…
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