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#Antivax #vaccineswork #primarycare If you have read the book Turtles all the way down, by an anonymous author, and edited by @ChildrensHD attorney Mary Holland, you have been deliberately, and systematically lied to. A small sampling of the antivax strategies used:
1. Claim that nobody knows how to read scientific studies except for them. If you intentionally misinterpret studies on traditional vaccines, you can literally come up with any conclusion you want.
2. Using deliberately hostile language in reference to the men and women who spent their professional careers working on immunizations. Much of what @ChildrensHD does is to create imaginary hostility to spread their message.
3. There is nothing new under the antivax sun, even in 2022. If you take a read through sciencebasedmedicine.org and vaxopedia.org , you will find all of the book's arguments debunked by people who actually know how to interpret the literature.
4. Cherrypicking studies - if you either literally quote the study wrong, or try to blow up a few sentences of a study out of context, you can make up any conclusion you want.
5. Creating a Nirvana fallacy - only the perfect vaccine will do with perfect immunity and no side effects. This is clearly not achievable, but it is still important to protect people from viruses like HPV due to the real harm that can come from viruses.
6. If you are hostile to all vaccines, you will say anything to criticize them, even if it is totally detached from reality. The financial compensation of the antivax ecosystem depends on maintaining this illusion. But - its just an illusion.
7. Firehosing - say as many statements as possible, one after the other, to create the veneer of authoritativeness and knowledge about the topic. I can do the same thing if I pick up three books and start reading random sentences. Doesn't mean there's anything meaningful.
@ChildrensHD Here is a long-form debunk of the issues addressed in the first chapter of the book, author credits to @doritmi : skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrapto…
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