Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC 🐈🐱🐈⬛
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🇨🇦 Internal Medicine physician and asst. professor of medicine 🏳️🌈. My views are my own. Star Wars 🤓. He/Him.
Joined August 2016
@Craig_A_Spencer Exactly. The "ventilators kill" crowd has never had to make these types of decisions and realize how seriously we consider the best course of action. We don't blindly intubate awake patients "with a mild cough".
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Guess what? 100% of COVID patients who need mechanical ventilation but don't receive it die. So. mechanical ventilation saved 20% of people who were dying of COVID-19.
80% of Covid patients put on ventilators died. This is probably most shocking revelation unknown to the public.
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Peter McCullough has finally experienced consequences for 2 years of spreading disinformation. Fired from his journal editor jobs and stripped of IM and Cardiology board certifications. It's about time - he has done immeasurable harm.
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McCullough et al attempted upload a preprint to the Lancet server, and it was removed because it was hot garbage. However, I feel going through this paper for you guys will help you spot dodgy science 🧵:.
Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine – Journal Removes Study Within 24 Hours
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One of the most disturbing images was a four person room where I had to pronounce all deceased within 24 hours from COVID. They could see patients dying from the disease they knew they had, and it broke my heart.
"One of the most disturbing images of the Covid-19 pandemic was when a teacher . forced a mask on a crying toddler . In some ways, the U.S. government . treated all of us like toddlers, compelling us to endure draconian Covid measures" - @HRaleighspeaks.
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@Rasmussen_Poll Incorrect, research on tens of millions of people show no risk of mortality following COVID vaccines. Your Holocaust comparison is disgustingly disrespectful.
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The real reason McCullough is lying about vaccine shedding is to sell his followers supplements.
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I have intentionally removed the author as they should be left to grieve in peace. @DiedSuddenly_ @MakisMD @stkirsch I want you to read this and feel this parents pain before you consider ghouling again by posting and speculating on children's deaths on Twitter.
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Hey @Johnincarlisle, this is a cast of the lower aorta, not the carotid. It's too big for the carotid. You can see the common Iliac arteries and median sacral artery branching off of it. It's called an agonal thrombosis. It existed before the COVID vaccines.
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The anti-vax influencers have been pushing an "increased athletes dying suddenly" narrative in the wake of the Damar Hamlin tragedy (who is happily improving!). It annoyed me so much I dug deep into the claims 🧵
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It was born named Twitter - so I'm calling it Twitter. Sound familiar, Elon?
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Need any further proof @kevinnbass is not a medical expert? No, Kevin. Did you even read the study this nonsense was based on? The SpO2 and PCO2s were nornal. I have a clinic full of long covid patients - you think we'd notice they got better when they took their masks off?
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@naomirwolf Nothing like a little xenophobia and fear-mongering about immigration (without actually saying it, of course, wink wink nudge nudge).
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I couldn't imagine a better last Tariff-free export from Canada to the US. Enjoy!
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#MyIVMStory - my uncle decided to take ivermectin instead of getting vaccinated, he caught COVID and died gasping for air in the emergency department. That's what you're looking for, right?.
Have your own ivermectin story? Share it and tag #MyIVMStory or join @FreeWCH's Twitter Space tomorrow (Sat, July 29 at 12pm ET) to share live, and hear others' experiences with ivermectin, too!
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Does anyone else have concerns about an "RN" who doesn't understand how vaccines work?.
What works better- your immune system or a COVID vaccine?.
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🚨🚨BREAKING: anti-vaxxers have finally developed diagnostic criteria for a COVID-19 vax-related death. To prove a vaccine-related death, they must meet all of the following criteria:. 1) The person is dead. They claim 100% Sens/Spec, but I want to see a study on that.
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Hey, @naomirwolf are you seriously doubling down on so-called "vaccine-shedding"? Women who actually received the vaccines have some minor, temporary changes in their periods. Vaccine shedding is not a thing.
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So, Eli Klein, an art dealer, has given me a lot of "education" about medicine and epidemiology, so I thought I would return the favour with my best (worst) advice on purchasing art, an activity I have no relevant experience in 🧵.
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Anti-vaxxers: can you tell me how the mRNA vaccines are new and experimental when Robert Malone "invented" them in the 1980s? Thanks!.
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It now appears confirmed that Ladapo directly deleted data that went against his beliefs about the mRNA vaccine in the Florida study. Here is the document from Politico labeled "Dr L's Edits" 🧵
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@kylegriffin1 If I was Trump is be terrified of her going through my finances. If she finds the slightest sign of cheating she's going to nail his balls to the wall, that is, if Nancy will lend them to her. .
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ACTIV-6 Ivermectin Trial is now published in JAMA. Early ivermectin is not effective in COVID-19.
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I have a BSc in Exercise and Health Physiology, played and coached college volleyball, and worked as a certified personal trainer before medical school. Let me know I you have any further questions.
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There are several issues here: 1) no one would intubate a person with just a mild cough, 2) if the person died within 24 hours of ventilation, they were in severe hypoxaemic respiratory failure, 3) a med student shouldn't fall for this anecdote.
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1) Fauci does not manage ventilators, 2) Fauci did not say ventilators killed patients - just because new treatments proved better does not mean the old treatment "killed people," 3) don't lay your insecurities on us, calling "medtwitter" stupid is of no benefit to anyone
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Okay - "Pfizergate" is still being perpetuated by the anti-vaccine crowd who are 1) Pretending transmission studies never occurred and 2) claiming vaccine requirements were not backed by science. But let us look at the ACTUAL timeline: 🧵.
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Raw milk can cause serious infections . Ivermectin and HCQ remain FDA-approved drugs. Vitamins are widely available for purchase in food or as supplements . You are free and encouraged to wash your food . No one is blocking the sun . Exercise isn't regulated by the FDA
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Organs are a very limited resource. Can you let me know, Aaron, have you cared for someone with an organ transplant who catches COVID? It is one group that still can develop severe COVID pneumonia. It's devastating. Please stop farming for rage just to get likes. Thanks.
To continue this unjust practice even today constitutes the height of fanatical stupidity.
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Hepatitis B is primarily transmitted vertically worldwide (from mother to infant). If you catch it <5 years old, you have a high chance of getting chronic HepB and an increased risk of liver cancer. HepB vaccine does not cause autism, not even a little bit.
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Um. I don't think Naomi knows what Shingles is. it's from reactivation of childhood chickenpox along a nerve. Children don't catch chickenpox from either activity she listed. We also don't say "IV drug addict" - that is unnecessarily judgemental.
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Tracy Hoeg is back misrepresenting a study to try and make the mRNA vaccines look scary/harmful in young people while pushing the Florida study promoted by Ladapo. I have evidence that the study was intentionally altered to make vaccination appear harmful. 🧵.
🏴New self-controlled case series of 12-29 yos in England w/findings not inconsistent w/@FLSurgeonGen's study, this finding a 70%⬆️d incidence of cardiac death post dose 2 mRNA vaccine in 12-29 yo males, however it wasn't significant (1.70 [0.98, 2.97])🧵.
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Hi @elonmusk, ventilators did not kill the patients. Your anecdotes from doctors do not inform this question - actual evidence like this meta-analysis that showed a trend to benefit form early intubation is much more helpful:.
@Rothmus I tried telling people this!. When I talked to doctors in Wuhan after the first wave hit China, their top recommendation was to avoid using intubated ventilators for extended periods at 100% O2, as it damages the lungs. I got the “you’re not a doctor”.
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So, in summary, this is not a conspiracy, the paper was literally biased hot garbage and the Lancet was right to remove it.
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BREAKING: Steve has apparently discovered high rates of dementia in nursing homes. the place. we tend to send people. with dementia. 🤨.
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@DrAseemMalhotra Weird, you seem to have forgotten to provide a link to the "study" - did you accidentally link to a Tucker Carlson clip as a serious source of scientific information? Because it is not!.
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I am very happy she is cancer-free, however, I am curious why you claimed to have "cured" her cancer instead of the double lumpectomy with clear margins and no lymph node involvement? That seems like a very interesting detail you omitted. Don't believe me? See below.
We cured her cancer. Paula was diagnosed with breast cancer. She did 0 chemotherapy. Just followed our exact protocol. Now?. Doctors say based on her blood work, it’s hard to believe she ever had cancer. Here’s exactly what we did:
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Hi Harry, I'm a physician from Canada - and you made all that up. I work at a large hospital in a major city, and what you describe has never happened. We also have reproductive freedom, and our 2SLGBTQIA+ people aren't being persecuted. So check your "tyranny" 🥰.
Was talking to people in Canada. They are living under tyrannical rules. A paramedic from Canada was saying he’s seen what I’ve seen, and he’s tired of it all. I know how he feels. To an extent. What keeps us, in America, from falling into what they are currently having to.
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Hey @liz_churchill10 lwt me know where Makis is seeing patients - I'm sure Health Canada would find that fascinating.
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Hi Liz, I sadly learned that you were Canadian. This vaccine is for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and not H5N1 ("avian") influenza. You realize those are completely different viruses, right? Anyways, it may be a better use of your time to get outside and enjoy summer!.
BIRD FLU VACCINE is READY. DO NOT COMPLY. THIS IS BIOLOGICAL WARFARE.
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Vinay Prasad, a COVID contrarian, has been uninvited from giving the keynote talk at this pharmacy conference. This is the right decision.
The ACCP Board of Regents has provided an update regarding the choice for the 2023 ACCP Annual Meeting Keynote Address. Please read the update here:
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Also, @elonmusk, if you were warning people about using ventilators from the beginning, why were you supplying them in 2020? 🤔
@Rothmus I tried telling people this!. When I talked to doctors in Wuhan after the first wave hit China, their top recommendation was to avoid using intubated ventilators for extended periods at 100% O2, as it damages the lungs. I got the “you’re not a doctor”.
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Happy retraction day to @stkirsch, @JesslovesMJK and @P_McCulloughMD ! It should never have been published to begin with. Also, no, the editors are not going to "debate you, bro"
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Aseem Malhotra continues to claim the COVID vaccines cause heart attacks. I evaluate this claim in detail in this @ScienceBasedMed post:.
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@DrAseemMalhotra Hijacked a @BBCBreaking segment on statins to spread disinformation about the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and ischaemic heart disease. I'm not sure how many times you can retweet yourself before it's pathological - but I feel he has exceeded that number: 🧵
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@triciaewrightmd I'm sorry to hear that, and you should block anyone who immediately asks "did he have comorbidities" or "how old was he" - like comorbidities or older age invalidate someone's importance.
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McCullough recently had a preprint retracted - I have found the supplementary table of how they judged the causation, and it is as bad as I thought. The bias of the authors is clear.
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1) The harm wasn't caused by the hospital - they did not give the patient PNH nor parvovirus B19 infection .2) meningococcal vaccination is ABSOLUTELY required before you receive eculizumab .3) it's okay as a psychiatrist to admit this is out of your scope of practice
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@jeffreyatucker You should be embarrassed enough to delete this Tweet, Jeffrey. All of these oxygen saturations are normal at 93-98.9%, when wearing a mask. Statistically significant does NOT equal clinically significant. These changes would cause no symptoms.
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It is illegal to practice medicine without a license in Canada. You cannot "consult" and give treatment to people under the title of "doctor" without an active medical license. Ypu also cannot distribute a canine antiparasitic.
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Certain people have been telling @CDCgov that this piece by @DrHarveyRisch is damning evidence of mRNA vaccine safety. I have pointed out that the Federalist is not an accurate source of information but had people challenge me to address the content of the piece - okay
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Many thanks for uploading a 3 minute video for me so I don't have to pay Elon. Here I explain facts/falsehoods around the claims regarding Alexis Lorenze and provide some education. Please enjoy!.
How sick is this 🤡 denying this young girl is vaccine injured. This is what's wrong with the medical industry, when Dr's like this ignore vaccine injuries!. @HouseLyndseyRN @stkirsch @ChildrensHD @RobertKennedyJr @oneadds @Michell87463246
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Hey @PierreKory, the vaccine that literally prevents cancer, including young people, is your next target? Delete your account.
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A friendly reminder that an ENT surgeon has no expertise in pregnancy or the diagnosis or management of myocarditis.
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Another retraction of an ivermectin paper, thus one by Peter McCullough:.
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mRNA vaccines don't shed. This is a way to blame any symptom these doctors come across on vaccines so they can sell you their "cures." This is incredibly unscientific and shows incredible bias in thinking. Don't give these people your hard-earned money.
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There is a 0% chance that in 2024 he was "required to give COVID vaccines" - I do believe that they saw his false and misleading social media posts and that is what resulted in the termination though.
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Who wants to guess she got up and pretended she was a medical doctor? Also, "falling" is not a diagnosis, never mind a vaccine side effect.
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Now, McCullough is just straight up denying reality - numerous data have shown the COVID-19 vaccine reduces death and hospitalizations. Also, calm down, you're on Twitter and can say "Vaccine" - it's not Voldemort. Remember, this man wants to sell you supplements.
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@MartinKulldorff @RobertKennedyJr RFK Jr. is not a skeptic. You are being dishonest. He's an antivaxxer. He's antiscience:. ➡️ he doesn't believe HIV causes AIDS .➡️ He claims SARS-CoV-2 was ethnically targeted to spare Jewish and Chinese people . You are not a serious person.
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I'm more embarrassed that @MartinKulldorff is doubling down on his completely tone-deaf and embarrassing post demonstrating he has zero clue about the reality that was the COVID pandemic.
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This is not the tweet of a physician or scientist. This is the tweet of a propagandist and politician. Shame on Ladapo for stoking false claims, Florida deserves better.
Two USC basketball players experience cardiac arrest in the past year and both almost certainly were forced or misled into taking a vaccine never proven to meaningfully benefit young, healthy people, but definitely proven to cause cardiac injury….
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It is very disheartening that doctors continue to spread false statements. Blood clots in apparently healthy patients are not uncommon. The biggest risk factor is age. There are also genetic and acquired disorders of clotting.
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So now @Johnincarlisle is treading as close as he can to likening the COVID vaccines to the Nurnberg trials without explicitly saying it. A common trope amongst the anti-vaccine community and a disservice to those who suffered under the Holocaust.
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RIP Squishy 2001-2023. My heart is broken 💔. She was my little squishy.
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Hey @StevenBartlett, Aseem Malhotra's beliefs on statins and cholesterol do not align with the scientific consensus. He has not produced any groundbreaking research on the topic. His beliefs about the mRNA vaccines are patently false, they do not cause heart attacks.
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The FDA did no such thing. Doesn't stop Pierre and pals pretending that they did.
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So, I have been pretty burnt out from work throughout the pandemic and unfortunately, I will have to take a step-back from Twitter. I am leaving my content for people to reference but will not be posting for awhile (or if the app improves its moderation).
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Question: if the clots were microscopic, how did the optometrist see them without a microscope?.
@Storiesofinjury Get this - My Father went for his annual eye exam and the doctor pulled away from looking at his ocular pics and said to him, “You’re unvaxxed aren’t you?” and my Dad got wide eyed and said “Yes, how did you know?!”.Dr: “No microclots in your eyes.”.👀.
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@jeffreyatucker It was removed because it was hot garbage. Not due to a conspiracy. If the authors can fix the methodological flaws, they can repost it.
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People claiming the 9th circuit court declared "COVID vaccines are treatments and not vaccines" are misrepresenting the ruling and do not understand the evidence behind the vaccines. A court does not determine scientific fact - a 🧵
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Well, @SabinehazanMD, saying "Dr Hotez has not 'fixed his kid's autism'" is a vile comment to make. A physician who is willing to make such a comment on a public platform should reexamine their priorities. You should apologize to @PeterHotez and adjust your Twitter presence
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Oh wow, this is a doozy of misrepresentation of cancer statistics - let us go through their claims and see what the evidence actually shows. Spoiler alert: there is an ongoing trend of increased cancer in young people (<50 years-old) since the mid-90s that is continuing.
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Great! Can you link the specific document for me that addresses liver injury from the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine so we can discuss please? Thank you!.
Yes, in the Pfizer documents half of those adverse events involving liver damage took place 48 hours after the injection.
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Hey @OlooneyJohn was the leg ischaemic? Do you even know how to tell? If that clot formed during life, the leg would be ischaemic. It is clearly a post-mortem clot and you are misrepresenting clots to scare people. Maybe stop?
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Just remember, this man, who tried to scare people away from a free vaccine, could afford to drop over $2000 on medications (many not useful) for COVID-19 when he caught it.
In the fun space by @Debunk_the_Funk yesterday someone asked what the cost of the regimen was by Joe Rogan when he had COVID in September of 2021. “We really thew the kitchen sink at it, monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, z-pack, prednisone”. 1/2
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Please provide a reliable source to support this claim of a spike in millions of myocarditis cases in 2021 Mr Ealy. Thank you!
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Kory and Marik join Peter McCullough in getting their ABIM certifications revoked. It's about time.
The ivermectin-promoting FLCCC just announced in an email blast to members that two of their biggest names — Pierre Kory and Paul Marik— are having their board certifications revoked for promoting false information. Not losing their medical licenses, but very serious nonetheless.
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It appears @BretWeinstein has embraced the conspiracy theory that "poppers" and not HIV are the cause of AIDS. He claims the alternate theory is not laughable - it is. I'm a gay physician who works with HIV patients, Bret, and I have questions for you:.
Crank magnetism. Once you go down the rabbit hole of pseudoscience, quackery, and conspiracy theories in one area (e.g., #COVID19), it is nearly inevitable that you will embrace fractal wrongness in the form of multiple kinds of pseudoscience (e.g., antivax, AIDS denial, etc.).
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Anti-vax 101: make a stupid claim about vaccines, get corrected and then mention the Holocaust and then run and hide in your echo chamber by blocking the expert who corrected you. Also, don't identify that your PhD is in economics 🤣.
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The Principle Trial Ivermectin results are finally available - ivermectin made no meaningful improvements in patients with COVID 19 within 7-days (median 4 days) symptom onset at ~400 mcg/kg dosing.
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Peter Hotez developed a vaccine outside "Big Pharma" and donated it to low-income countries. What a monster! I'm sure he's never made his assistant pick up his dirty undies though. .
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I'll never get the people who think their little AR-15 is holding back the most advanced military on the planet. Dear gun lover, meet predator drones and bunker busters.
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🚩 The authors are all well-known COVID-contrarians/anti-vaxxers. There is only one pathologist among them (Hodkinson) and he has been spreading false information since the pandemic began
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Here you go Steve: Multiple videos of athletes passing out while lifting heavy weights from Feb 2020 (no vaccine):.
I have NEVER seen anything like this before. How can the entire medical community not be curious as to what is causing this?.
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🚩Citing retracted paper - they cite the online survey paper by Skidmore without noting it is retracted in the body of the conclusion. This is Academic dishonesty.
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