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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines.
Published today in the United States and Canada (Dog not included)
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
#vaccines
#covidiots
#covid19
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To would be readers of The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Amazon sold out yesterday due to brilliant
@Hbomberguy
feature on plagiarism. Here: Publisher says my book can be ordered now from Amazon. Disregard "after Christmas" note.
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When I began my investigation of research cheat Andrew Wakefield, he was a doctor and I wasn't.
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Vaccines: A Measured Response via
@YouTube
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
#vaccines
#covidiots
#covid19
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@SBumpky
@Hbomberguy
Not sure it was quite that. A later phase of the investigation reached half of Americans, which was pretty awesome. But
@hbomberguy
sent my stats through the roof again last week. I don't know of any current affairs producer in the world with a bigger reach. A phenomenon.
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@Hbomberguy
@iilluminaughtii
I think that idea is the brainchild of plagiarism-checker software companies. What
@iilluminaughtii
did is plagiarism, but compare it with
@Channel4
@Caravan_Media
and
@MatthewsEamonn
who gutted my work and sold it as their own. Here's my account:
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Another devastating ruling for the disgraced ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield. From the Court of Appeals for Englands and Wales today.
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@mikegalsworthy
@BorisJohnson
Given that the United States this week threatened a trade war with the UK, I think you're right.
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What's behind the anti-vax movement? Pre-order from any Amazon site or wherever you get good books.
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
Click for full frame:
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@DrJenGunter
Reading this thread from the UK, I can't even believe you're having this conversation. America's health system is just shocking. Sickening. How can any civilised society arrange things this way? Sorry to butt in. 🙂
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Three weeks to publication in UK, Oz. North America soon after. From Amazon & all good bookstores. Pre-order to assure quick supply.
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
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@AThankless
@Mr_Magoo5
@SwaledaleMutton
@carlsmythe
@TwitterSafety
@mcfunny
No. Andrew Wakefield brought down Andrew Wakefield. I only caught him, as would be the professional duty of any front-of-the-paper reporter who became aware of serious misconduct such as research fraud.
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@mikegalsworthy
I'm wondering if this means all former members of uniformed services can wear their uniforms after they've quit. Army? Fire service? Nurses? Police? He holds no rank and isn't in the military. Neither is his uncle Andrew.
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@stopvaccinating
I suspect I'm wasting my time, but if she died of metastatic melanoma she was almost certainly killed by (a) sunburn, followed by (b) late diagnosis. It's appalling to read the drivel here.
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@GeigerLinda
@PaulTHenderson
You mean, ever since editors realized that Andrew Wakefield was a research cheat and the case against MMR was fabricated, they've lost patience with those who'd wish to trick journalists. If you're unhappy, take it up with Wakefield.
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Did somebody just tell Roberts Kennedy and DeNiro that thimerosal was removed from vaccines more than a decade ago?
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@StuartJRitchie
I'm not a lawyer either, but I'd say this Andersson character has published prima facie justification to be interviewed under caution by the police, and to have his electronic activity forensically inspected.
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The double agent who brought down the anti-vaccine fanatics via
@MailOnline
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
#vaccines
#covidiots
#covid19
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@toadmeister
The overwhelming majority of "vaccine injuries" are either trivial, or not causally related all. Self-reporting of "vaccine injuries" are all-but totally unreliable, and hearsay reports are worthless. This guy Young knows nothing of such matters.
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@chayalier
I believe that it's cruel to keep solitary animals like this. They are herd animals and need companions.
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BBC News - Kent Heckenlively, US 'anti-vaxxer', denied Australian visa
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Checking the Andrew Wakefield fraud investigation is true.
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
#vaccines
#covidiots
#COVID19
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@HopiNg66966500
@naomirwolf
@DrJBhattacharya
@drsimonegold
@DrAseemMalhotra
@ZelenkoZev
@DrOz
@P_McCulloughMD
@stkirsch
@GovStitt
@shanejett
Mate, you need psychiatric help. Seriously. Or go see a family physician or maybe a minister of religion, and tell them you have these impulses to say and do these things. You really will be a lot happier.
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#palestine
#gaza
#israel
I believe Benjamin Netanyahu warrants arrest for genocide. No Hamas terrorism justifies the deliberate or reckless slaughtering, maiming and orphaning of children. Western politicians who condone it should go too.
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@UncommonSense74
@DoctorLunge
@Artemis1984
@BreezerGalway
@MartinKulldorff
More garbage from trolls and Andrew Wakefield enablers. If my story isn't true, in subtance and sting, it would be the most sustained campaign of malicious libel in history. So why didn't he sue over my book? Because it's all true:
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Scientists must join the battle against Andrew Wakefield's poisonous anti-vaccine nonsense via
@TelegraphSci
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Israeli hostages were holding white cloth on stick when shot dead by the army
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Transgender and vaccine science. Anyone interested in both might appreciate this Indiana lawsuit. The defendants accuse the plaintiffs' (trans +) experts of exactly the same conduct as antivax court performers. The scientific playbook is identical.
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UK: Just received my voter suppression notification from the Sunak government. New ID requirements should weed out plenty of young voters, but spare old folks like me. Universal suffrage is so, well, yesterday.
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@trillionofcells
@RN_MSN_Snark
@CaryDavid722
@crabb_vicki
@mcfunny
@TheFrankmanMN
@ShaneAKAProp
@Veeteejay1
@TakethatCt
@krebiozen
@ASchifty
@Scary7Dr
@bjurrows
@AphasiaAnomic
@sduncanhealth
@shinko_hadoken
@Arkout3
@Pouldeau61
@runhack
@cappsie
@BB0941167867205
@AnnLove4All
@raoulduke49
@taurusg333
@doritmi
@Kathmarval
@Danny459673
@WendyOrent
@DaveBla81093404
@MsTrixter
@TonyBaduy
@Hurriquake
@MONTMAN9500
@StuWizzle
@Golfergirl2018
@dann58638436
@encyclopath
@1_TMF_
@Fornowago
@FUDyou2
@Catheri49917567
@RadioColor
@tonymac5
@groin_hammer
@CyclopsSeesAll
@ScienceMonkey0
@Just4TheCause
@zendogbreath
@FormerAntivax
You know zero. Wakefield's co-author, DID retract. He also stated his GMC case related to "entirely different issues" to Wakefield's. Here: I was not paid by industry and Wakefield was a scapegoat for NOTHING. Here:
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@awkwardlefty_cj
@Hbomberguy
Nice to hear that. The
@Hbomberguy
film is brilliant, and I owe Harry a huge debt of gratitude.
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In court, "Fox suggested there were contexts in which the phrase I hate black people” was not racist.'" Read his examples to be gobsmacked.
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@mjauk
@BethRigby
If Iain Anderson can't speak to Stonewall's agenda, but slips away into evasiveness and timewasting, then he should resign. Whatever you think about what
@bethrigby
raised, he never squarely addressed anything she put to him.
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Israel attacks the flagship aid charity fighting starvation in Gaza. Time for Western governments to stop all arms supplies, force Netanyahu from power, and end the genocide.
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What's behind the anti-vax movement? Pre-order now for a discount. North America: UK: Or your local Amazon site.
#DoctorsSpeakUp
#VaccinesSaveLives
Click for full frame:
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Investigating Andrew Wakefield. From the Swedish Skeptics Society annual meeting in Malmo.
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@Jennifer64634
@ukcolumn
Ah, this must be the "Jennifer Robertson" who wallows in antisemitism.
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This film, released in 2019, explains why Hamas is supported in Gaza, and why it attacked Israel in 2023. Please watch it.
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@JolyonMaugham
It seems the police have chosen to blame the victim as a defence for their own premature assumptions and sloppy work.
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@CaryDavid722
@TakethatCt
@trillionofcells
@RN_MSN_Snark
@crabb_vicki
@mcfunny
@TheFrankmanMN
@ShaneAKAProp
@Veeteejay1
@krebiozen
@ASchifty
@Scary7Dr
@bjurrows
@AphasiaAnomic
@sduncanhealth
@shinko_hadoken
@Arkout3
@Pouldeau61
@runhack
@cappsie
@BB0941167867205
@AnnLove4All
@raoulduke49
@taurusg333
@doritmi
@Kathmarval
@Danny459673
@WendyOrent
@DaveBla81093404
@MsTrixter
@TonyBaduy
@Hurriquake
@MONTMAN9500
@StuWizzle
@Golfergirl2018
@dann58638436
@encyclopath
@1_TMF_
@Fornowago
@FUDyou2
@Catheri49917567
@RadioColor
@tonymac5
@groin_hammer
@CyclopsSeesAll
@ScienceMonkey0
@Just4TheCause
@zendogbreath
@FormerAntivax
I'm afraid I don't answer to an abusive troll. What follows is all you need to know, and of course you won't read it, much less understand what it means. Others might.
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@rugbyrhino16
@kfunk937
@immunotoxPhD
@rosemary_kerr14
@krebiozen
@thereal_truther
@ghoppe
@ChrisJohnsonMD
@seaglass34
@Boxmenot
@KristenJayne1
@lawnatural
@microRNApro
@ITDarkTiaLight
@downeyballs
@BlueLionBlog
@jp_miner
@_mamadeb
@VeritasEver
@badzoot7
@TonyBaduy
@EmmaGPaley
@doritmi
@LifeDorr
@kenjaques
@kuriousmind93
@BeckyJohnson222
@TakeThatCDC
@mcfunny
@Juanita87722370
@WendyOrent
@Monstercoyliar
@Rosewind2007
@sig_3872
@JamieConner8
@StopVaxxedLies
@dstluke
@DrLovlie
@dkegel
@TioChango_
@mimetic_
@t3tragrammat0n
@NotOfIt7k
@Ormus9Ormus
@DocMElliott
@kidoctr
@RobertKennedyJr
It was Wakefield who stopped parents from giving evidence to the GMC. Statements were taken by his lawyers, who realized they were damining to his case. As my book reveals, the statement in the video also lied, revealed in hundreds of documents turned over to me by parents.
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Meanwhile, on the West Bank...
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Gaza: Now here's a surprise...
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@chrisaileo
If you've got to 150 of that book, you're probably out there with people who've read Brief History of Time. Both of them.
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Victims of Israeli bombing and shelling: premature babies removed from incubators without power.
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Anti-vaxxers posing as victims has a history. Look at Andrew Wakefield | Nick Cohen
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@picardonhealth
@CBCNews
And (in the light of previous infectious disease outbreaks) they nearly all wear masks. UK - the world's worst Covid performer - has all but abandoned masks, which are nowhere mandatory. Coincidence?
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Never forget that, as a journalist, Boris Johnson was fired by The Times, years ago for dishonesty. His character shares much with the research cheat Andrew Wakefield. Under stress, his default is to lie.
#BorisJohnson
#BorisOut
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Hamas attack was expected by investors?
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@cappsie
@LaughlandMorgan
@yeahnaa333
@TeddyFreddy11
@BottomleyFiona
@kmtildsley
@ExtraDouble
@BGLTHMND
@alumilynn
@MentatSword
@TruthTwt
@JaneEOpie
@gooner62
@KStateTurk
@FreedomSpartan
@EDalmayne
@latimeralder
@kfunk937
@jkellyca
@TandT_SEO
@ChristRescues
@Death_is_final
@weaponizedword1
@LynnleeMavakay
@qtbeauty
@drewawerd1
@natedoromal
@djrazorgirl
@microRNApro
@LaLaRueFrench75
@anniecherokee
@AuriaZepherine
@Flying_Shadowz
@LightControl2
@Takethatdoctors
Anyone who claims someone "made up" the story of the Andrew Wakefield fraud and published in four high profile media within the jurisdiction of the English courts is a calculating liar, a malignant crank, or just unbelievably dumb.
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UK. Hopeless standard of BBC interviewing, as usual. Bankers bonuses? Mortgage products withdrawn? Increased likelihood of angry strikes? Why is transferring wealth from the poor to the rich good for Britain?
#BBCLauraK
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Discovery of children’s remains at Kamloops residential school ‘stark example of violence’ inflicted upon Indigenous peoples /via
@globeandmail
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@TakethatCt
@CaryDavid722
@trillionofcells
@RN_MSN_Snark
@crabb_vicki
@mcfunny
@TheFrankmanMN
@ShaneAKAProp
@Veeteejay1
@krebiozen
@ASchifty
@Scary7Dr
@bjurrows
@AphasiaAnomic
@sduncanhealth
@shinko_hadoken
@Arkout3
@Pouldeau61
@runhack
@cappsie
@BB0941167867205
@AnnLove4All
@raoulduke49
@taurusg333
@doritmi
@Kathmarval
@Danny459673
@WendyOrent
@DaveBla81093404
@MsTrixter
@TonyBaduy
@Hurriquake
@MONTMAN9500
@StuWizzle
@Golfergirl2018
@dann58638436
@encyclopath
@1_TMF_
@Fornowago
@FUDyou2
@Catheri49917567
@RadioColor
@tonymac5
@groin_hammer
@CyclopsSeesAll
@ScienceMonkey0
@Just4TheCause
@zendogbreath
@FormerAntivax
I feel some sympathy for those who've believed Wakefield's retaliatory lying. But they still ought to examine the nature of evidence. Unsubtantiated, often hearsay, verbal claims from some guy thrown out of medicine for grotesque dishonesty aren't ideal sources.
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@advocartis
@YouTube
@nocompulsoryvac
Thanks Paul. I'd missed that one. If I ever meet that man again, the encounter will begin with hour after hour of him lying to parents of kids with developmental issues. Not decades ago, but bang up to date.
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@JKelleyK
@doritmi
@auscandoc
@AndrewLazarus4
@TonyBaduy
@doom37455413
@KitemanArgues
@barryjohnreid21
@richykirsh
@JimeeLiberty
@JonathanHannah
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@IdunsDaughter
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@RickeyH64219156
@tomsirolimus
@AspAlaAsnAsnTyr
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@MaureenStroud
@reacharoundu
@Monstercoyliar
@ShockTraumaRN
@newstranslate13
@SkepticalMutant
@jtmayes3
@WendyOrent
@Nockit1
@pawley_robert
@mcfunny
@ConsequentialBr
@krebiozen
@jarbot15
@JimBeam102
@Thskicksarefire
@swedishchf
@Alex_on_A14
@ShadowDroid616
@TheDrJon
@nuhope2022
@Adrian7745
@statsguyuk
@CurfewX
@JDCBurnhil
@HupperichWerner
@KStateTurk
@Fornowago
@zeetubes
If my my investigation of Andrew Wakefield is lies, why hasn't he sued me for malicious libel over my book? Here's the reason.
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More of the legacy of Andrew Wakefield, who has since doubled down on his lying.
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Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet
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UK. Utterly useless interview by Laura Kuenssberg. Fails to raise mortgage withdrawals, railworkers etc striking over falling wages as the rich enriched by Truss tax changes, bankers bonuses. Direct concerns of viewers. Eye contact poor. Reading questions from list.
#BBCLauraK
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@CaryDavid722
@trillionofcells
@RN_MSN_Snark
@crabb_vicki
@mcfunny
@TheFrankmanMN
@ShaneAKAProp
@Veeteejay1
@TakethatCt
@krebiozen
@ASchifty
@Scary7Dr
@bjurrows
@AphasiaAnomic
@sduncanhealth
@shinko_hadoken
@Arkout3
@Pouldeau61
@runhack
@cappsie
@BB0941167867205
@AnnLove4All
@raoulduke49
@taurusg333
@doritmi
@Kathmarval
@Danny459673
@WendyOrent
@DaveBla81093404
@MsTrixter
@TonyBaduy
@Hurriquake
@MONTMAN9500
@StuWizzle
@Golfergirl2018
@dann58638436
@encyclopath
@1_TMF_
@Fornowago
@FUDyou2
@Catheri49917567
@RadioColor
@tonymac5
@groin_hammer
@CyclopsSeesAll
@ScienceMonkey0
@Just4TheCause
@zendogbreath
@FormerAntivax
No his son wasn't. He was on its board for three years from 2009. Also on the board of the Press Association and Sky Television. He had no editorial role at Times Newspapers, and I've never spoken to him. Murdoch's Fox News has platformed Wakefield, as has The Sunday Times.
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@carlsmythe
@TwitterSafety
@mcfunny
I'm sorry, I don't understand. In what respect do SARS-CoV-2 vaccines work like the MMR vaccine: a combination of three functional "live" RNA viruses? I would say they are a very different technology, but am willing to be corrected.
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@Inversionism
@DrWakefield
(a) Andrew Wakefield never made any discoveries about thimerosal. His subject was MMR, which never contained thimerosal. Which shows how much you know of these matters. (b) The case of fraud against him is conclusively proven.
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I sincerely hope
@WCKitchen
will be able to notify the world of the arrangements to return their murdered team members to their home countries, the airports of arrival and times of the flights.
#gaza
#gazawar
#lbc
#mrjamesob
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@pookleblinky
I don't think you've followed this too closely. It took years to obtain the patient records and other evidence of wrongdoing. Only then was it possible to find serious fault. There was nothing on the face of the paper giving grounds for retraction.
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Finally finished
@deerbrian
‘s book on Andrew Wakefield. Not easy finding time to read a book this year as a science journalist, but this one was a must: The inside story of uncovering one of the biggest scientific frauds of the 20th century (a friend calls it ‚journalism porn‘).
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@krebiozen
@Questio31810600
@DrNice2022
@RN_MSN_Snark
@CaryDavid722
@TakethatCt
@trillionofcells
@crabb_vicki
@mcfunny
@TheFrankmanMN
@ShaneAKAProp
@Veeteejay1
@ASchifty
@Scary7Dr
@bjurrows
@AphasiaAnomic
@sduncanhealth
@shinko_hadoken
@Arkout3
@Pouldeau61
@runhack
@cappsie
@BB0941167867205
@AnnLove4All
@raoulduke49
@taurusg333
@doritmi
@Kathmarval
@Danny459673
@WendyOrent
@DaveBla81093404
@MsTrixter
@TonyBaduy
@Hurriquake
@MONTMAN9500
@StuWizzle
@Golfergirl2018
@dann58638436
@encyclopath
@1_TMF_
@Fornowago
@FUDyou2
@Catheri49917567
@RadioColor
@tonymac5
@groin_hammer
@CyclopsSeesAll
@ScienceMonkey0
@Just4TheCause
@zendogbreath
People can be honorably illiterate. It's the abusiveness that's malignant, such as the Stephen Duncan character who seems to pose as some kind of uplifting therapist, when his heart is filled with hatred and bile.
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The Doctor Who Fooled the World, by Brian Deer. "This is a gripping true detective story that reads like a thriller, with an impact on the real world that will leave you as chilled as any Stephen King novel."
#books
#pediatrics
#coronavirus
#vaccines
#covidiots
#covid19
Ambitious chronicles of race and family genealogies, moving memoirs that call for change and insightful, indelible essays.
Here are our Best Non-fiction Books of 2020
#ReadingsBestOfs2020
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@LaughlandMorgan
@gnomepigface
@BottomleyFiona
@thisisnothappen
@Paulwady
@TeddyFreddy11
@cappsie
@yeahnaa333
@LesleyStock5
@kmtildsley
@ExtraDouble
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@alumilynn
@MentatSword
@TruthTwt
@JaneEOpie
@gooner62
@KStateTurk
@FreedomSpartan
@EDalmayne
@Rosewind2007
@latimeralder
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@jkellyca
@TandT_SEO
@ChristRescues
@Death_is_final
@weaponizedword1
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@microRNApro
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@anniecherokee
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@LightControl2
@Takethatdoctors
@michaelmina_lab
Outright lies. Produce the media report and/or documents. The Lancet, the paper's authors and Wakefield himself have all admitted he never disclosed prior to the Sunday Times investigation.
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Elon Musk take Twitter private? In my view, no individual should be allowed outright control of Twitter. Governments should intervene to stop this risk, if necessary.
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Does this 19-year-old really believe that holding in her farts caused life-threatening appendicitis? This sounds like a case report for The Lancet.
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How Gaza doctors are being treated
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@Silverangelrant
Andrew Wakefield wasn't any kind of expert on vaccines or autism. He was an academic researcher on Crohn's Disease. The pharmaceutical industry paid him and didn't target him. He lost his license for research fraud. Everything you say is wrong.
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@iXeno
@RawGarlicMeds
@lizditz
Wakefield was summoned by the provost of the university which ran the medical school, and asked to replicate his study, with full funding and support to look at hundreds of cases, with the virology. An honest scientist's dream. He refused, claiming "academic freedom".
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@stkirsch
Wakefield's 1998 Lancet paper described MMR as the "apparent precipitating event." Precipitate means cause. Here's his vaccine patent of 1998, in which he claims MMR causes autism. At page 2:
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Attempted ban on "making any statement to any person" about Andrew Wakefield film. Now you know what they're like.
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@GenghisN7
Thanks for the kind words and for taking the trouble to write. HBG's videos are always great.
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El periodista que destapó el fraude científico que intentó vincular una vacuna con el autismo via
@quepasacl
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