#  @gorskon David Gorski, MD, PhD David Gorski, MD, PhD posts on X about rfk, in the, science, if you the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::85227160/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] -67% - [--] Month [----------] +6,616% - [--] Months [----------] +1,547% - [--] Year [----------] +337% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::85227160/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -5.40% - [--] Month [---] +60% - [--] Months [---] +429% - [--] Year [---] +58% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::85227160/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.02% - [--] Month [------] -0.11% - [--] Months [------] +2% - [--] Year [------] +1.50% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::85227160/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [us election](/list/us-election) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [finance](/list/finance) [musicians](/list/musicians) [stocks](/list/stocks) [currencies](/list/currencies) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [rfk](/topic/rfk) #373, [in the](/topic/in-the), [science](/topic/science), [if you](/topic/if-you), [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [has been](/topic/has-been), [maga](/topic/maga) #3137, [health](/topic/health), [realdonaldtrump](/topic/realdonaldtrump) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@seckennedy](/creator/undefined) [@tarahaelle](/creator/undefined) [@weldeiry](/creator/undefined) [@robertkennedyjr](/creator/undefined) [@doritmi](/creator/undefined) [@vprasadmdmph](/creator/undefined) [@19joho](/creator/undefined) [@stkirsch](/creator/undefined) [@ksenapathy](/creator/undefined) [@realdonaldtrump](/creator/undefined) [@erikkain](/creator/undefined) [@drjonl](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@sciencebasedmed](/creator/undefined) [@seckennedys](/creator/undefined) [@atomskssanakan](/creator/undefined) [@stevensalzberg1](/creator/undefined) [@peterhotez](/creator/undefined) [@senbillcassidy](/creator/undefined) [@nihdirectorjay](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@r0ck3t23 Too bad I want to retire in the next 5-7 years then isnt it (Not that I believe Musks bullshit. Ive heard this story before going back to my teen years in the 1970s.)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2023046098013798601) 2026-02-15T14:45Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@PeterAttiaMD What about the part where you said you would go into withdrawal without him (Epstein) Seriously it's bad that you were apparently buddies with him even if you didn't ride the Lolita Express" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2018381048053121507) 2026-02-02T17:48Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@EricTopol @PeterAttiaMD Yeah basically. Attia is a supplement hawker now. No wonder he fits in so well with MAHA" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2018381203800314355) 2026-02-02T17:49Z 73.4K followers, 11.5K engagements "@TheModerateCase I take it you dont listen to Italian opera or songs in other languages. Sad that your horizons are so limited" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020875918743412782) 2026-02-09T15:02Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Correct. I've been warning for years that @SecKennedy's most cherished goal is to eliminate access to ALL vaccines in the US. Yet so many of my colleagues bought into his lie that he's "not antivax" but "pro-safety." Wrong. He's antivax and has been for at least two decades. Good morning. The goal of the anti-vaccine movement is not medical freedom. Thats just a lie. They literally want to ban vaccines. RFK Jr & allies have filed legal requests for the government to take shots for Covid polio and hepatitis B off the market so you have no choice. https://t.co/Fz0XkpGLEc Good morning. The goal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020882930764005808) 2026-02-09T15:30Z 73.4K followers, 46.1K engagements "The prior plausibility that ivermectin will be an effective anticancer agent is low. Yes it kills cancer cells in Petrie dishes but only at a very high concentration that is 50-100x what is safely achievable in the human bloodstream. These studies are a waste of resources. Ivermectin a macrocyclic lactone discovered in the mid-1970s plays a critical role in the treatment of a wide range of parasitic diseases in humans as well as in veterinary practice. Over the past decade researchers have explored repurposing this molecule as an anticancer Ivermectin a macrocyclic lactone discovered in the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021978254878683455) 2026-02-12T16:02Z 73.4K followers, 54.3K engagements "@jakepaul Why do you hate freedom of speech" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2023210372757324119) 2026-02-16T01:38Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "I admire his enthusiasm but "drowning out" quackery and medical misinformation with good information just doesn't work. wish him luck but I wish he'd also talk to those of us who've been at just this thing for many years like @MarkHoofnagle and others. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doctor-recruiting-doctors-to-fight-fake-health-info-on-social-media.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doctor-recruiting-doctors-to-fight-fake-health-info-on-social-media.html" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1135569210032119808) 2019-06-03T15:29Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@tarahaelle @DemFromCT @aetiology Gotta be honest here. I'm confused. Don't Tweet about her but it's OK to Tweet about her I'm getting mixed messages here. TBH I'm way more concerned about news stories with false balance failing to portray her and RFK Jr. as the antivax cranks they are than Twitter or blogs" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1139608275492773888) 2019-06-14T18:59Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @DemFromCT @aetiology Also I make no apologies for my post about Biel today. People forget for instance just HOW antivax RFK Jr. is and how antivax Biel must be if she's willing to join forces with him. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/06/14/jessica-biel-latest-celebrity-antivaxer/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/06/14/jessica-biel-latest-celebrity-antivaxer/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1139609055259975681) 2019-06-14T19:02Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @ajafari81 @NaturoDiaries The problem is when you remove the quackery from naturopathy all that's left is life coaching" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1140038162980462599) 2019-06-15T23:27Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "The Dunning-Kruger the sheer arrogance of ignorance on display here is breathtaking. Hospital systems were close to overwhelmed in several parts of the country and THAT WAS WITH THE STATES ON LOCKDOWN.π€¦β Universal & indefinite lockdowns were a misguided response to COVID-19. A lack of critical thinking cost millions of people their livelihoods. This isnt about blaming anyone but instead acknowledging this fact so that we do not repeat the same mistakes in the future. WATCH https://t.co/z8v05ORlih Universal & indefinite lockdowns were a misguided response to COVID-19. A lack of critical" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1271552693765574656) 2020-06-12T21:19Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@tarahaelle @CT_Bergstrom Yes NEVER let antivaxxers claim the word skeptic. NEVER They are NOT skeptics" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1272288886958501898) 2020-06-14T22:04Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Damn straight People who run a business that requires putting callers on hold: YOUR CHOICE OF HOLD MUSIC/MESSAGE IS NOT A TRIVIAL DECISION. People who run a business that requires putting callers on hold: YOUR CHOICE OF HOLD MUSIC/MESSAGE IS NOT A TRIVIAL DECISION" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1299389654727307265) 2020-08-28T16:53Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @Lollardfish Indeed. Imbecile is another. Idiot moron and imbecile were actual clinical terms used by doctors to describe different levels of mental retardation" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1300952336211341313) 2020-09-02T00:23Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @Lollardfish Idiot doesnt bother me as much and Ive been known to use the word on occasion but never moron or imbecile. I dont know why. The words all share the same history" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1300957706333945856) 2020-09-02T00:44Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Wow the sea lions are out in force today" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1321143883405942784) 2020-10-27T17:37Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@apoorva_nyc @naomirwolf Take it from someone who's studied and followed the antivaccine movement for nearly [--] years. It is a naive take. Personally I thought #COVID19 would decrease vaccine hesitancy but it's energized the antivaccine movement" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1336122861031972869) 2020-12-08T01:38Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Is this too snarky a response to a troll questioning my qualifications Or just right I wouldn't want to be accused of being "uncivil" or "unprofessional" after all.π @RegimeChangeBC Actually I graduated from medical school in the late 1980s fool got my PhD in the early 1990s and have been a practicing cancer surgeon and researcher since the late 1990s. What are your qualificationsπ @RegimeChangeBC Actually I graduated from medical school in the late 1980s fool got my PhD in the early 1990s and have been a practicing cancer surgeon and researcher since the late 1990s. What are your" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1337252101982990336) 2020-12-11T04:25Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "This is the completely predictable result of a President who never took governing seriously and is utterly terrible at it. So a lot of chatter happening on the slow vaccine roll out Personally I'm incredibly frustrated. Did we not know that vaccines were coming Is vaccine administration a surprise Several complex issues so lets break things down a bit Warning this is a bit of a rant Thread So a lot of chatter happening on the slow vaccine roll out Personally I'm incredibly frustrated. Did we not know that vaccines were coming Is vaccine administration a surprise Several complex issues so lets" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1343880909108486146) 2020-12-29T11:25Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@tarahaelle And I complained about feeling fatigued the next day and taking an involuntary unscheduled 3+ hour nap the next afternoon.π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1347445981084839936) 2021-01-08T07:32Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @DLeonhardt Holy hell Thats about as horrible a message you can convey when reporting about vaccines. Totally antivax dog whistling as anyone with familiarity with the antivaccine movement would know and would know not to write.ππ€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1351332853628469249) 2021-01-19T00:57Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle Its so depressing to see its depressing to see Johnny-come-latelys unaware of what has gone before and what has been learned about vaccine messaging" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1351342257601970183) 2021-01-19T01:34Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@Yr_Comrade_JP Not so much at least not around where I am. Most people in their 20s with whom I work have never heard of it and are at best maybe vaguely aware of who Monty Python are" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1365824714082574336) 2021-02-28T00:42Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "My father had it and Ive known a fair number of people whove also had it including one who almost had eye involvement. Its horrible" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1366206874761232386) 2021-03-01T02:01Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "So @facebook's brain dead algorithm strikes again locking me (an administrator) out of posting to the @ScienceBasedMed for [--] hours because I posted an article from @oracknows deconstructing a dubious treatment for #COVID19. FB your #COVID19 misinformation algorithm is π©" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1373636032575455235) 2021-03-21T14:02Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@tarahaelle @Facebook @ScienceBasedMed @oracknows @BarryKarr @PolitiFact @SkeptInquirer I'm not a reporter but you should totally pitch a story about this. All I can do is complain on Twitter (and once the ban is gone) on Facebook (without a link to the material that got me banned)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1373643851563466759) 2021-03-21T14:33Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle Yes. I think its fairly common knowledge" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1422798554540744707) 2021-08-04T05:56Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle And I thought I was obsessive when doing research for a blog post.π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1424859539720089600) 2021-08-09T22:26Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Crap. Shes not wrong. I wish she were but shes not. I finally figured it out. Whats wrong. It feels like fucking April [----] again. I finally figured it out. Whats wrong. It feels like fucking April [----] again" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1425061592895528993) 2021-08-10T11:48Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@PeterHotez I admire your optimism but I highly doubt that you could have made a difference. This is ideology tied to identity. Changing it is as difficult as changing someone's religion or political orientation" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1431766719748530177) 2021-08-28T23:52Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "If John had been paying attention to the antivaccine movement for two decades (or even just a few years) he wouldnt ask questions like this. He would also understand that the politicization of vaccine mandates started years before the pandemic starting with school mandates. 1/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1435184458483871750) 2021-09-07T10:13Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@tarahaelle No doubt. I just noted that you only have to have been paying attention a few years to realize this" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1436117088175804421) 2021-09-09T23:59Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @JohnFrost @MadPhysiologist Depends what you mean by "recent" though. Antivaxxers and @GOP-supporting Tea Party groups started aligning with each other over "mandates" at least a decade ago" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1480911236233527296) 2022-01-11T14:35Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Now I've gone and done it. It looks as though by pointing out how crypto is basically a speculative bubble/pump and dump scam that I've started to attract the attention of crypto bros telling me how "wrong" I am.π¬" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1481619273017487362) 2022-01-13T13:28Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@tarahaelle @RMCarpiano Think RFK Jr. in Harlem. Lots of Black speakers but a definitepaucityof melanin in the attendees. This is very on brand. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/10/23/harlem-vaccine-forum-rfk/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/10/23/harlem-vaccine-forum-rfk/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1484786430635384834) 2022-01-22T07:14Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @glinch72 Its the Nirvana fallacy. If an intervention is not 100% safe and effective to them its useless and dangerous" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1492833659363246083) 2022-02-13T12:10Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @xinfinity22 @AtomsksSanakan @CT_Bergstrom @JHowardBrainMD @GidMK @aetiology @GYamey Yes. It was a paper published in December that tried to smear science communicators who were frequently interviewed in the media as not being in the top 2% of their disciplines by citation indices" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1498043582611083271) 2022-02-27T21:13Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@alexbryant_ @jasonintrator @LeopoldHess I'll give one example . All the anti-trans legislation banning gender-affirming care characterize it as "experimental." That's a play straight out of the antivax playbook that LONG predates #COVID19 mRNA vaccines to characterize the childhood vaccine schedule as "experimental."" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1534632359987150848) 2022-06-08T20:24Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle It hasn't worked for me the last couple of times I tried it. I'd use it it'd appear to work and then I'd check my Twitter block list only to find that no one had been added to it. I think it's borked" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1559971972628549634) 2022-08-17T18:34Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@FormerAntivax @tarahaelle I use Safari on my computers and the Twitter app on my phone; so that wouldn't help me" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1559996564755517440) 2022-08-17T20:12Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Its been a while but I still love basking in the adulation of my fans" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1572980501836611585) 2022-09-22T16:05Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Quite predictably (painfully so) Steve Kirsch thinks he can harass me by writing about me. Dude this ain't my first rodeo and far scarier disinformation agents than you have tried. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-david-gorski-defends-the-narrative https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-david-gorski-defends-the-narrative" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1579154996914192385) 2022-10-09T17:01Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "And @drdrew's descent further and further down the antivax rabbit grift hole continues. Dr. David Wiseman Ex J&J Scientist and Drug Developer Warns of mRNA-Induced Spike Protein w/ Dr. Kelly Victory LIVE on @AskDrDrew https://t.co/5WOrIbU1jd Dr. David Wiseman Ex J&J Scientist and Drug Developer Warns of mRNA-Induced Spike Protein w/ Dr. Kelly Victory LIVE on @AskDrDrew https://t.co/5WOrIbU1jd" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1603512412157648925) 2022-12-15T22:08Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@KevinKijewski "Crushing dissent at any cost" Seriously Listen to yourself. Listen to how idiotic (or dishonest) you sound. Your whataboutism is pathetic even by the subterranean standards of @MIGOP" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979522817604341950) 2025-10-18T12:19Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@SenBillCassidy @POTUS Too bad you dont seem all that bothered that @SecKennedy is decimating the US vaccine schedule. You helped him be confirmed. You are as much to blame for the impending carnage as he is" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2008683578419237220) 2026-01-06T23:34Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "The Holocaust wasnt just Auschwitz either. It took nearly a decade to go from persecuting Jews and excluding them from society to killing them on an industrial scale. @LePapillonBlu2 Not everything is the holocaust @LePapillonBlu2 Not everything is the holocaust" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2012534957667696834) 2026-01-17T14:38Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@VigilantFox All of @billmaher's claims are of course bullshit. But then I expect that of him. He's been an antivaxxer and supporter of quackery going back at least [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013306915342655816) 2026-01-19T17:45Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "As [----] dawns look for @SecKennedy to ramp up his assault on vaccines using policy-based evidence making and altering Vaccine Court standards. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013307069714047351) 2026-01-19T17:46Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Apparently our chief fascist believes that Star Trek V was the artistic height of the franchise.π€¦π»β Of course what he really hates is that Star Trek has *always* been about diversity and overcoming differences to work together for a better future. Tragic. But its not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control. Tragic. But its not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013349201229365560) 2026-01-19T20:33Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@ValerieAnne1970 The study showed nothing of the sort given how badly it was designed executed and analyzed (if you can call it that)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013368584332824967) 2026-01-19T21:50Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@KatherineEban @gavi The reason @SecKennedy is aligning the US vaccine schedule with Denmarks thats obvious to those of us whove been following him for [--] yrs. He is antivax and wants to eliminate as many vaccines as possible. Denmark vaccinates against fewer diseases than any EU nation. Bingo" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013369616425230690) 2026-01-19T21:54Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@KatherineEban @gavi @SecKennedy Using the excuse of making the US Denmark hes slashed the US schedule by more than a third. Thats just his first big move. He wont stop there. He wont stop until hes eliminated all vaccines if he can. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013370101144211613) 2026-01-19T21:56Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "He might be correct here. This Whole Milk campaign was 100% supposed to be a Raw Milk campaign and the Admins lawyers had to inform them what a stupid idea that was. The marketing money was already gone so they pivoted to whole milk instead. Its so incredibly obvious. This Whole Milk campaign was 100% supposed to be a Raw Milk campaign and the Admins lawyers had to inform them what a stupid idea that was. The marketing money was already gone so they pivoted to whole milk instead. Its so incredibly obvious" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2013408640649052592) 2026-01-20T00:30Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@GeoRebekah @DHSgov ICE always lies" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015190240051290295) 2026-01-24T22:29Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Once again *you* are as much to blame for this as @SecKennedy. You voted to forward his nomination to the full Senate. You voted to confirm him. You violated your Hippocratic Oath and failed as a Senator and a human being. This is as much on you as it is on RFK Jr. and Milhoan. Claiming that risk from vaccines is greater than the threat from disease has led to highest rate of measles in decades. Undermining faith in polio vaccine will lead to paralyzed children. What others are doing will be blamed on President Trump. Unfair but true. Claiming that risk from vaccines is greater than the" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015560878083493925) 2026-01-25T23:02Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@SarahisCensored Bullshit. Stop lying" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015560948455514247) 2026-01-25T23:02Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@jsm2334 @MeghanEMurphy Antivaxxers frequently engage in binary thinking. If a vaccine isn't 100% effective in preventing illness to them it's "doesn't work." If it doesn't stop transmission 100% of the time it "doesn't stop transmission." It's weaponizing a lack of understanding of probability" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015562669810413930) 2026-01-25T23:09Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@pvtjokerus That's a federal agent not Pretti. Stop lying" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015562894939689128) 2026-01-25T23:10Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@michaelshermer WTF happened to you man There was a time when I respected you as a skeptic but now you seem to be an administration apologist. That isn't skepticism particularly when you blame the victim like this. Despicable and disappointing" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015563824477110470) 2026-01-25T23:13Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@StrangerDavy @michaelshermer I've been asking the same thing myself. [--] years ago I appeared on the same speaking bill with Shermer in Montreal and was starstruck to hang out with him a couple of hours the day of the talks. Now I keep asking: WTF happened to him or did I miss something all along" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015564441169916107) 2026-01-25T23:16Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@NRA In the end you will do nothing. You won't use the NRA's massive resources to file lawsuits or protest this. You will comply because all that Second Amendment fetishism about "resisting tyranny" was cosplay. You don't mind tyranny as long as the tyrant is one of yours" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015566349603426520) 2026-01-25T23:23Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@michaelshermer I mean seriously. https://x.com/kklamonty/status/2015300680479629495s=20 @NRA @C_C_Krebs https://t.co/roIwcJA4a3 https://x.com/kklamonty/status/2015300680479629495s=20 @NRA @C_C_Krebs https://t.co/roIwcJA4a3" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015566590662660369) 2026-01-25T23:24Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@SecVetAffairs Your nose is so far up Trump's rectum you can see his uvula from the inside" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015572892986044770) 2026-01-25T23:49Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@HodlMagoo I call bullshit but if that's true it would be trivial for ballistics to determine if the weapon had been fired. (I bet that it has not been fired but I don't trust ICE to do an honest investigation.)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015573209089753238) 2026-01-25T23:51Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@erikkain @Undonepuppet I swear ICE apologists seem to yearn to turn the US into Megacity One with real Judge Dredd and his fellow Judges serving as instant judge jury and executioner. Guys Judge Dredd was always meant as a satire of fascism not as a template for an actual government" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015747447977279723) 2026-01-26T11:23Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@DrNeilStone @Tim_Walz Um no. I've been studying the Holocaust as an area of interest since the 1970s. ICE strongly resembles the SA a gang of violent thugs being used to terrorize punish and kill enemies of the Party and then later the state" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015791081837785420) 2026-01-26T14:17Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@SenTomCotton I see this claim presented without evidence a lot. Tell you what. Explain to us exactly *how* better cooperation between Minnesota law enforcement and ICE would have prevented this tragedy. Give me details. I'll wait" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015792217634254973) 2026-01-26T14:21Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@allenanalysis If he and ICE would just stop kidnapping people and acting like the Gestapo we'd stop calling them kidnappers and the Gestapo. Easy" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015792502716969185) 2026-01-26T14:22Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@JazzyJ87283918 @allenanalysis @mycherieamour25 Not exactly. MAGA was never against authoritarianism. They just wanted the authoritarian who destroys democracy in the US to be one of their own. All the appeals to "freedom" were about *their* freedom alone no one else's" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015792837351055480) 2026-01-26T14:23Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Mike_Cox Ask yourself: How well did DOGE work out when Elon Musk tried it. (Hint: Not very well at all. In some cases his cuts ended up costing the government more than if he had done nothing.)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015885575929188597) 2026-01-26T20:32Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@WomanDefiner Ah yes. Obviously a crime worthy of the death penalty by summary execution by officers shooting him ten times ππ€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015951703338610702) 2026-01-27T00:55Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@MarivicVillaMD5 He's an incompetent hack who routinely publishes utter crap for "science."" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015951926043533624) 2026-01-27T00:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@mcfunny @MarivicVillaMD5 Dr. Villa is into anti-aging medicine which always raises my skeptical antennae for a quack" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015952049997787623) 2026-01-27T00:56Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "No it's obvious that @AmerAcadPeds actually cares about the health of children unlike you and your support for child labor and @SecKennedy and MAHA. Is the racket not obvious The AAP is funded by the shot makers. The docs are paid per shot. The paper decrying the new recommendations is funded in major part by pharma. https://t.co/JnSdl33JOj Is the racket not obvious The AAP is funded by the shot makers. The docs are paid per shot. The paper decrying the new recommendations is funded in major part by pharma. https://t.co/JnSdl33JOj" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015952451614933289) 2026-01-27T00:58Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@BlueBoxDave So seem to be implying that the appropriate penalty for such a "crime" is summary public execution by being shot ten times.π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015953433346330699) 2026-01-27T01:02Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Jenna_DC @NickMiroff As much as I hope this is true it's nowhere near enough. He and his boss need to face justice for their crimes" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015955527889461282) 2026-01-27T01:10Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@TheBrancaShow One little problem with your take bud: The agents didn't know he had a gun until after they tackled him and then one of them had clearly already disarmed him when his fellow ICE agents opened fire at point blank range. π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015956800407806409) 2026-01-27T01:15Z 73.4K followers, 14.1K engagements "Last week was a hellscape for vaccines with a RICO lawsuit against the AAP and the newly antivax CDC coming for your HPV and polio vaccines. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-7-what-me-worry-about-polio-and-hpv/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-7-what-me-worry-about-polio-and-hpv/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015958087027372165) 2026-01-27T01:20Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@SenMikeLee Oh but they do. If they vote together they do thanks to the filibuster. Sorry if you don't like it but it's the Senate and you're a Senator. You know the rules" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015963974366302639) 2026-01-27T01:44Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "AAP is following the scientific evidence. @SecKennedy is not. He chose to make America Denmark as far as its vaccine schedules go not because of any inherent superiority of Denmark's schedule but rather because Denmark vaccinates against the fewest diseases of any EU nation" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015964771317620739) 2026-01-27T01:47Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@mattmfm He needs to be prosecuted for his crimes. I know that won't happen at least not while Trump is still in office but in the meantime ostracization is the next best thing" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2015965029246345351) 2026-01-27T01:48Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Miseducate is more like it. Thats what antivaxxers do. CHD: WE HELP EDUCATE. @ChildrensHD https://t.co/emX8LYJ0E5 https://t.co/DX67XcJFwy CHD: WE HELP EDUCATE. @ChildrensHD https://t.co/emX8LYJ0E5 https://t.co/DX67XcJFwy" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016093815833076144) 2026-01-27T10:19Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Or maybejust maybeits appropriate to call a narrative that has the elements of a conspiracy theory and lacks any compelling evidence to support it what it is a conspiracy theory. Saying that something is a conspiracy theory is not an argument. The term is a stigma that stands in place of an argument where the case against conspiracy is too weak to prevail on merit. Saying that something is a conspiracy theory is not an argument. The term is a stigma that stands in place of an argument where the case against conspiracy is too weak to prevail on merit" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016095057816797635) 2026-01-27T10:24Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Tell me you don't understand the difference between a condition and a *diagnosis* of that condition without telling me you don't understand the difference between a condition and a *diagnosis* of that condition. Either that or Del understands but knows that his audience doesn't Doctors and so-called "scientific professionals" keep telling parents of autistic children: "Autism isn't increasing. We're just diagnosing it better." Let's pause and actually THINK about that claim. Right now nationally [--] in [--] children is being diagnosed with autism. In https://t.co/qJpmn23ZQJ Doctors and so-called" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016223512608883076) 2026-01-27T18:55Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "LOL. @drmarkhyman Seriously the dude is an antivax supplement-hawking "functional medicine" quack. I've been writing for nearly two decades about the nonsense he's been laying down for far longer than that.π€¦π»β Tough questions. Straight answers. CBS News has gathered the sharpest minds on the topics that matter most. @elliotackerman @PeterAttiaMD @AlinejadMasih @arthurbrooks Roger Carstens Caroline Chambers Clare de Boer Sir Niall Ferguson Roland Fryer Jr. @hubermanlab @coldxman https://t.co/2cQP7dADeW Tough questions. Straight answers. CBS News has gathered the sharpest minds on the topics" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016529413433688384) 2026-01-28T15:10Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Imagine using words like "functional medicine" and "holistic" unironically to describe quackery. @gorskon @drmarkhyman Imagine using prapaganda buzzwords like " antivax" unironically @gorskon @drmarkhyman Imagine using prapaganda buzzwords like " antivax" unironically" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016614889574310371) 2026-01-28T20:50Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "I've been writing about Hyman for nearly two decades. I can describe in nauseating detailwith receiptswhy he's a quack and document his history of antivax statements BTW I use my titles in my handle because it triggers people like you so easily.π @gorskon @drmarkhyman Hopefully we are approaching the time when simply calling someone names & pointing out their supposedly views in a straw-man exaggerated way is not enough to dismiss what they have to say just because the bully has some university-supplied letters after their name. @gorskon @drmarkhyman Hopefully we are approaching the time" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016615269402120253) 2026-01-28T20:52Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@ChrisCillizza Oh please. There's putting Babe Ruth at the plate and then there's putting a minor league hack at the plate" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016615833552748557) 2026-01-28T20:54Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@donaldGrahame @shallit43 @drmarkhyman "Multimedia design and development - senior UX designer" OK that's exactly whom I'd trust regarding scientific questions related to medicine and medical care.π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016694655933391116) 2026-01-29T02:07Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements ""Multimedia design and development - senior UX designer" Exactly whom I would pick as my go-to source about the science of medicine and vaccines.π€¦π»βπ€£ @shallit43 @gorskon @drmarkhyman If your vax research is as thorough as your research for your online bullying "adhominens" you don't know anything much about vaccines or science lol. Buried in my LinkedIn profile is some of my scientific & government health & safety experience. https://t.co/noTRnEkrHh @shallit43 @gorskon @drmarkhyman If your vax research is as thorough as your research for your online bullying "adhominens" you don't know" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2016694961949851903) 2026-01-29T02:08Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "That's not the reason why he lost his medical license. He lost his medical license for being a quack. As for his "study" it's so bad and was so unethical that it was quite appropriately retracted. Dr. Paul Thomas lost his license for publishing a study showing the dramatic differences in health outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. https://t.co/XKC5QJKB4B Dr. Paul Thomas lost his license for publishing a study showing the dramatic differences in health outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. https://t.co/XKC5QJKB4B" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017221829400686989) 2026-01-30T13:02Z 73.4K followers, 20.3K engagements "@IanCopeland5 @karma44921039 So cute. The anonymous troll thinks he knows enough to have found a "gotcha" that proves his conspiracy theory. I want to pat him on the head like a five-year-old child.π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017223338578391500) 2026-01-30T13:08Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Speak truth to powerπ€£ Mr. Shermers platform is far larger than ours. (We rarely get radio and TV interview gigs nor have we ever been featured in fawning articles about something like the intellect dark web.) Relatively speaking compared to us Mr. Shermer *is* power*. P.S. @ScienceBasedMed I am not "obsessed" with people's genitals. I am either asked my opinion on Trans matters or I am responding to a big media story (eg men in women's sports & spaces) no different from any other trending issue people on X post about (eg ICE). As I P.S. @ScienceBasedMed I am not "obsessed" with people's" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017611936750309489) 2026-01-31T14:52Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Of course Mr. Shermer finds it convenient to try to convince you that hes the underdog speaking truth to power because it lets him portray himself as a a Galileo-like figure. (And what did Mr. Shermer say about those who claim the mantle of Galileo)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017611943142420962) 2026-01-31T14:52Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Nah. Just science-based medicine.π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017612323716747619) 2026-01-31T14:53Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "And physicians have a *duty* not to practice substandard medicine and not to endanger their other patients. It is not coercion for a physician to decline patients whose parents wont vaccinate. It is ethics. Florida parents have an absolute right to make informed medical decisions for their children without coercion including the decision to receive or decline vaccines. It will always be unethical for pediatricians to deny care based on a parent's vaccination preferences because Florida parents have an absolute right to make informed medical decisions for their children without coercion" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017613611456147780) 2026-01-31T14:59Z 73.4K followers, 48.4K engagements "Remember how I frequently point out that when antivaxxers say informed consent what they really mean is misinformed refusal This is an example. Also shared decision-making is just the latest antivax term rebranded to mean the same thing. Risk exceeds benefit for all vaccines. If fully informed no one would take them and ethical clinicians wouldnt give them. Get rid of mandates and coercion and watch the huge Pharma vaccine gravy train go off the rails. @FLSurgeonGen @SecKennedy Risk exceeds benefit for all vaccines. If fully informed no one would take them and ethical clinicians wouldnt give" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017614188395266087) 2026-01-31T15:01Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "OK. I must admit that this made me chuckle. We all know the real causation https://t.co/sYZgn8DRPR We all know the real causation https://t.co/sYZgn8DRPR" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017630824070348829) 2026-01-31T16:07Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Hey medicine is one of the only industries left that uses FAX machines and pagers too.π€£ Its [----]. I can stream a movie on my phone with zero lag. Cars drive themselves. AI bots argue with each other on the internet. And yet the only way to compare a patients prior MRI to a new one is to send a courier two hours away to pick up a CD-ROM from another hospital. Its [----]. I can stream a movie on my phone with zero lag. Cars drive themselves. AI bots argue with each other on the internet. And yet the only way to compare a patients prior MRI to a new one is to send a courier two hours away to pick" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017631215218479247) 2026-01-31T16:09Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@NickAdamsinUSA Of all the things that never happened this is the never happenedest.π€£" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017631880032485546) 2026-01-31T16:11Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@michaelshermer @ScienceBasedMed Dr. Howard who no longer posts on X informs me that he can't DM you. He tried. He says you can DM him if you wish.π That brings up the question: Why am I still on this hellsite π€£" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017648343686504912) 2026-01-31T17:17Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "As for our supposedly being obsessed with trans issues at SBM just for yucks I looked at how much weve published pushing back against claims made by people like Mr. Shermer. Its a grand total of [--] articles the most recent of which was over [--] years ago (before @19joho)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017660415564546050) 2026-01-31T18:05Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@19joho Thats right. Until now @ScienceBasedMed has not published an article on gender or gender-affirming care since December [----]. How times I wonder has Mr. Shermer complained about woke takes on gender-affirming care and transgender people during that time" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017661029140881424) 2026-01-31T18:07Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@19joho @ScienceBasedMed I was actually a bit abashed to see that we havent written about the misinformation about gender-affirming care for that long. Thats on me" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017661262545436828) 2026-01-31T18:08Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@mcfunny @ChrisVeber1 It makes me laugh out loud that these idiots dont know the difference between the SV40 virus and the SV40 promoter. Either that or they do know but know that their followers do not (i.e. theyre lying). Take your pick" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017662063657546126) 2026-01-31T18:11Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Hank ignores the sharp rightward trend in the political center of gravity of the antivax movement that Ive been documenting at least [--] years. It began with antivaxxers reaching out to Tea Party groups in 2009-10 accelerated around [----] and was turbocharged by the pandemic. Media/social media have gone full "1984" about the anti-vax movement. They pretend it just erupted. It was there but Democrats and therefore downplayed. More kids died just in California of Whooping Cough in [----] than nationwide in [----]. Because of coastal progressives. https://t.co/zhNkOlkY2W Media/social media have gone" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017688447796859226) 2026-01-31T19:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Moreover although the stereotype of antivaxxers on the 2000s was of hippy dippy crunchy lefties on the coasts in reality theres always been a strong right wing component to the antivax movement. It just wasnt dominant then in the way that it undeniably is now" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017688450581905588) 2026-01-31T19:56Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Theres no denying that right here right now in the US the political center of gravity of the antivax movement is far right. I wrote about how we got here four () years ago. https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/28/why-is-there-now-such-an-affinity-between-antivaxxers-and-fascism/ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/28/why-is-there-now-such-an-affinity-between-antivaxxers-and-fascism/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017688452733505712) 2026-01-31T19:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Mike_Cox Guns didnt exist when Gods laws were handed to humans.π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2017696370019152017) 2026-01-31T20:27Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Of course Mark Ruffalo has a lot of talent. Rob Schneider on the other hand does not.π€£ Rob Schneider: "Mark Ruffalo could say whatever he wants against Trump and he'll still get work as an actor. But if an actor like me dares question the tribe of Democrats that's it. You're out of Hollywood." https://t.co/SadZ2Zx6eC Rob Schneider: "Mark Ruffalo could say whatever he wants against Trump and he'll still get work as an actor. But if an actor like me dares question the tribe of Democrats that's it. You're out of Hollywood." https://t.co/SadZ2Zx6eC" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2017919951009394800) 2026-02-01T11:16Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements ""Ad hominem." π Dear David @gorskon and Jon @TheDrJon When you go ad hominem you self-identify as losers. But I do appreciate the repost. π» Dear David @gorskon and Jon @TheDrJon When you go ad hominem you self-identify as losers. But I do appreciate the repost. π»" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018341613697638907) 2026-02-02T15:11Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements ".@NIHDirector_Jay has recently said that he wants to transform the @NIH into the research arm of #MAHA and a central driver of the #MAHA agenda. Lysenkoism [---] continues apace at NIH. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018342134600946102) 2026-02-02T15:13Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@jsm2334 @NIHDirector_Jay Lets just say that Im far less impressed than you. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2018483324675875036) 2026-02-03T00:35Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@BenMazer @jsm2334 @NIHDirector_Jay Yup. And when he regurgitates lab leak conspiracy theories" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2018483489771860408) 2026-02-03T00:35Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "My ears are bleeding just imagining this show. Turning Point USA has announced the performers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show: Kid Rock Brantley Gilbert Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett https://t.co/epTYU3NbmY Turning Point USA has announced the performers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show: Kid Rock Brantley Gilbert Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett https://t.co/epTYU3NbmY" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018508765260116104) 2026-02-03T02:16Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Andanother one bites the dust.π Dr. Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as Chief Science Officer at David. We remain focused on serving our customers. Dr. Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as Chief Science Officer at David. We remain focused on serving our customers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018677013091934699) 2026-02-03T13:24Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Were setting the global standard for public health Actually thats what Im afraid of because with respect to infectious diseases and public health what happens in the US wont stay in the US. Framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedys leadership the CDC has surged resources including vaccines and therapeutics nationwide to support state and local response efforts and Framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedys" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018677701859528973) 2026-02-03T13:27Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@WallStreetApes FAFO. The GOP shouldn't have tried to do a mid-decade gerrymander" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2019218970159771685) 2026-02-05T01:18Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Let's just say that @19joho's YouTube channel provides a far more reliable history of the pandemic than the @nytimes particularly given its platforming of @NIHDirector_Jay's historical revisionism. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/podcastjaybhattacharya/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/podcastjaybhattacharya/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019789680170934539) 2026-02-06T15:06Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@mattsheffield Antivax and anti-psychiatry pseudoscience often go hand and hand" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2019793120062255562) 2026-02-06T15:19Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@SBakerMD We warned everyone. Antivax and anti-psychiatry frequently go hand-in-hand and @SecKennedy is an extremist believer in both forms of pseudoscience and quackery" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2019793320516452420) 2026-02-06T15:20Z 73.4K followers, 10.6K engagements "Indeed just like the way we surgeons sometimes say that all bleeding stops. If you fast long enough - its true you will bring any disease process to a final end If you fast long enough - its true you will bring any disease process to a final end" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019793442218389549) 2026-02-06T15:20Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@VitoComedy @AlecLace Also imagine willfully ignoring hundreds of years of history of racist portrayals of Blacks as monkeys or apes" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2019876519904952625) 2026-02-06T20:51Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@ChildrensHD Maybe if pretty much all antivax papers weren't such utter crap from a scientific standpoint their authors wouldn't be dragged so badly" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2019934933964452149) 2026-02-07T00:43Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@jsm2334 @ChildrensHD Also virtually all the sorts of papers that CHD is talking about are antivax "studies" that are scientifically pure crap. Maybe if they could publish better science they wouldn't be dragged so bad but then if they could publish better they wouldn't be antivaxxers" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2019935170686587206) 2026-02-07T00:44Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Wow. Florida will let any old quack get a medical license. https://makisw.substack.com/p/breaking-news-my-florida-medical https://makisw.substack.com/p/breaking-news-my-florida-medical" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020210997303378164) 2026-02-07T19:00Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Wow. This is the biggest antivax straw man argument that I've ever seen. I'm grudgingly impressed. Deeply misguided @wapo opinion piece by Pharma leader @ScottGottliebMD . I was taught in my first-year medical school ID course that humans live in a vast ocean of microbes in our environment our skin in every body cavity. The vast majority cause no harm and some have a https://t.co/P1VPAAxlvD Deeply misguided @wapo opinion piece by Pharma leader @ScottGottliebMD . I was taught in my first-year medical school ID course that humans live in a vast ocean of microbes in our environment our skin in" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020230546844995997) 2026-02-07T20:17Z 73.4K followers, 10.7K engagements "Notice how he misses the point about his straw man: The idea that all [--] billion humans need [----] new vaccines to prevent every infection Hint: *No one* argues this. @gorskon πππ I am flattered but opposing corporate welfare for a hypothetical new EBV vaccine proposed by a pharma corporate board member is not antivax . . . https://t.co/rikbHhPT3S @gorskon πππ I am flattered but opposing corporate welfare for a hypothetical new EBV vaccine proposed by a pharma corporate board member is not antivax . . . https://t.co/rikbHhPT3S" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020272733418869055) 2026-02-07T23:05Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Graham_Wharton I doubt hed post this publicly if it hasnt happened but point taken. Ill wait" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020272951938150656) 2026-02-07T23:06Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Misrepresenting legitimate biomedical research is what antivaxxers like @SecKennedy do. Harvard's Dr. Palmer corrects RFK that he hasn't "cured" anyone with schizophrenia with a keto diet - and goes on to say MAGA is detrimental to universities like Harvard trying to advance medical science. MAGA isn't trustworthy medical advice. https://t.co/qlxTj5cDEm https://t.co/EhEdjDZ6MX Harvard's Dr. Palmer corrects RFK that he hasn't "cured" anyone with schizophrenia with a keto diet - and goes on to say MAGA is detrimental to universities like Harvard trying to advance medical science. MAGA isn't" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020275522450968751) 2026-02-07T23:16Z 73.4K followers, 18K engagements "Ouch. Could cut down on the social media posting. Just saying. https://t.co/0VH7n2Lzd7 Could cut down on the social media posting. Just saying. https://t.co/0VH7n2Lzd7" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020275940870557732) 2026-02-07T23:18Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@billifer1973 @CynicalPublius Of course hes a raging hypocrite. Nearly all these MAGA free speech bros are. For years they demanded free speech with freedom from consequences for themselves. Now that Trump is in power they are more than happy to invoke consequences for speech they dont like" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020517995345309871) 2026-02-08T15:20Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@BenMazer Ha I spent the pandemic taking on Jay Bhattacharya. Now that he's @NIHDirector_Jay (and called me a "threat to science" about a year ago after he'd been nominated I'm still criticizing the hell out of him even though I still apply for NIH funding.π€£" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020545094466613424) 2026-02-08T17:07Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@BenMazer @JeremyLamb19 Yeah same with my criticism of "Podcast Jay" Bhattacharya given that he's NIH Director now.π€£" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020545220048257309) 2026-02-08T17:08Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@StoneyHydro @WallStreetMav All the MAGA types who were ranting about "free speech" during the pandemic and the Biden administration are strangely silent about Trump's actual weaponization of the federal government to suppress speech. Instead they prefer to vent about athletes saying things they don't like" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020551152597684596) 2026-02-08T17:31Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Funny but @thackerpd says this as though it were a *bad* thing that I communicate with fellow scientists opposed to science denial like @MichaelEMann.π€£" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020856014933721225) 2026-02-09T13:43Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Quelle surpries. @thackerpd is a transphobe too and clearly didn't read @19joho's post" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020856244840366523) 2026-02-09T13:44Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@MichaelEMann @thackerpd @NaomiOreskes Im not sure anymore that he was ever a good guy" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020875206227632162) 2026-02-09T14:59Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@SaiyanMarz @timjhogan He cant even lip sync well" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020875567910764934) 2026-02-09T15:00Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@covie_93 He had the words "Only love is stronger than hate" posted on the giant screen at the end of the performance. That will do it" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020892371865522440) 2026-02-09T16:07Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@TJR_MtBiker791 @DaniJurinsky This is hilarious. Trump won. He's in power. MAGA is in power. Yet it's never enough. MAGA wants everyone to love and agree with it and when they don't MAGA throws a temper tantrum and tries to make them love them" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020893439982784920) 2026-02-09T16:11Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@danielledsouzag @KidRock Yes show love to all countries and people. After all there's no need to dust off old Bibles to love your neighbor" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020893814852821036) 2026-02-09T16:13Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@jakepaul Puerto Rico is an American territory and Bad Bunny is an American citizen you dolt" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020897511561416857) 2026-02-09T16:28Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@covie_93 Or was it "The only thing stronger than hate is love" I forget. Either way such a message is very triggering to MAGA" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020898351902810586) 2026-02-09T16:31Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@TPUSA @KidRock He also can't lip sync very well. Hell I could lip sync that song better than he did.π€£" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020898579712237604) 2026-02-09T16:32Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@VigilantFox Because if there's anyone who embodies Jesus' values and lives a Christ-like life it has to be Kid Rock.π€£π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020901345218199791) 2026-02-09T16:43Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@VigilantFox @Maggie82616346 Funny but Kid Rock can't even lip sync well" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020901463388512333) 2026-02-09T16:43Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@erikkain It was astounding and spectacular. I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into the conception choreography and rehearsals" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020901741919633610) 2026-02-09T16:44Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@NickAdamsinUSA You can't even make your lies a little bit plausible. (Hint: Bad Bunny's viewership crushed TPUSA.)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020901937814577338) 2026-02-09T16:45Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@seanmdav That crapfest took two months to put together I thought they'd just thrown it together the week before. Certainly that's how it looked" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020902269210824862) 2026-02-09T16:47Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@gerardtbaker Because MAGA hates brown people and can't stand having a Puerto Rican like Bad Bunny perform a halftime show in Spanish that celebrates Latin culture and promotes love over hate. It's just that simple" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020902846225322267) 2026-02-09T16:49Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@travisakers I assume you're being satirical but these days I never know for sure" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2020910676852539819) 2026-02-09T17:20Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@KidRock Oh please. The singing continued when the microphone was nowhere near your mouth. Your voice isn't that powerful.π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021296636849221833) 2026-02-10T18:54Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@CeeHawk Talk about missing the point of the song.π€£π€¦π»β" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021297348320592222) 2026-02-10T18:56Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@eddiespage @GlockfordFiles Yeah it is hilarious how much MAGA CHUDs have their panties in a bunch over Bad Bunny's suggestive lyrics all while ignoring lyrics by MAGA favs like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent that are outright about lusting over underaged girls" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021297897875091671) 2026-02-10T18:59Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@itsmorganariel So Your point Why is that a problem here" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021298234036019658) 2026-02-10T19:00Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@TheSWPrincess @itsmorganariel They took away Lady Gaga's Italian white card because she participated in the Bad Bunny show" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021298493571080390) 2026-02-10T19:01Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Acyn He does know that Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican and therefore an American citizen doesn't he" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021299723429175346) 2026-02-10T19:06Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "@CollinRugg Things have gotten really bad in MAGA-Land when Piers Morgan is the voice of reason" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/2021299887216775297) 2026-02-10T19:07Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "@richie__ryan @jonlemire @center4inquiry What I fear is that @realDonaldTrump will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to run @CDCgov" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/818860848940744708) 2017-01-10T16:43Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @Richie__Ryan @JonLemire @center4inquiry @realDonaldTrump @RobertKennedyJr @CDCgov No Senate confirmation required" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/818875295788859397) 2017-01-10T17:40Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@mbalter @tarahaelle Critics of Israel are way too eager to embrace old anti-Semitic tropes actually" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/898619918165434368) 2017-08-18T18:57Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @ACSHorg @pxwhittle @skepticpedi @jamiewellsmd @julemieux1 @AlexBerezow @JoshBloomACSH I've noticed for a purported public advocacy group ACSH is might touchy about certain things. Not great PR of them to lash out that way" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/913901241264230400) 2017-09-29T23:00Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @ACSHorg @DrJenGunter @HankCampbell Of that I have little doubt. I just looked at the study they cited not the others" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/913921188992139265) 2017-09-30T00:19Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@skepticpedi @JoshBloomACSH @tarahaelle @Elianok10 @ACSHorg @pxwhittle @jamiewellsmd @julemieux1 @AlexBerezow It's not that hard. Yesterday I Tweeted there was cholera in PR. I was criticized. I did more research & found I was wrong. I admitted it" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/914563502374899713) 2017-10-01T18:51Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @thackerpd @UCSF I liked the first part of the article but he lost me when he resurrected his conspiracy mongering about the @JonEntine and the @GeneticLiteracy" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/959432773827203072) 2018-02-02T14:26Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "@tarahaelle @kausikdatta22 @ksenapathy @ejwillingham The same applies to me. I only occasionally write about GMOs. I did however take on a couple of particularly bad anti-GMO studies and wrote a post comparing the anti-GMO movement to the antivaccine movement. (Hint: They share MANY similarities.)" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/959434694843658241) 2018-02-02T14:33Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements "Yes there is systemic racism in medicine. https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/06/fight-systemic-racism-in-medicine.html https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/06/fight-systemic-racism-in-medicine.html" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1004015949186523137) 2018-06-05T15:03Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@SkepticsGuide @stevennovella @SkepticalDDS @crackedscience @skepticpedi @NECSS @PrismPodcast @FinchLydia @MrMMarsh @QEDcon Maybe "class system" doesn't quite convey the idea. Maybe "celebrity system" is a better term. Or maybe a bit of a hybrid. As for the rest Twitter is Twitter. I used say Twitter is limited too but discovered it's possible to have surprisingly in depth discussions on Twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1005085282704732160) 2018-06-08T13:52Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@ksenapathy @stevennovella A better way of saying it might be that the scientific method for the most part can transcend culture" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1005150118939648000) 2018-06-08T18:10Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@ksenapathy @stevennovella Oh I've written more times than I can remember that the whole "Eastern"/"Western" dichotomy is racist as hell. It feeds into the whole caricature of the "West" (i.e. Europe) being more "rational" and the "East" (Asia) being more mystical and mysterious" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1005152193018724352) 2018-06-08T18:18Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@ksenapathy @HankCampbell Only if they're what he perceives as left wing "identity politics." π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1010281668404445184) 2018-06-22T22:01Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Yes If Trump runs in [----] whoever runs against him should have Make America Great Again as their campaign slogan If Trump runs in [----] whoever runs against him should have Make America Great Again as their campaign slogan" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1022898319545262080) 2018-07-27T17:35Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Antivax "thinking" such as it is in a nutshell. It does adjust me that whoever this is features "free thinker" on her Twitter bio" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1023178512096784384) 2018-07-28T12:09Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements ""The Wrath of Khan" is the best Star Trek movie of all. I'll fight you on that. However seeing the Apple version of it in 4K HDR on my new 4K TV I'm surprised at how dark the photography is" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1026293320547483655) 2018-08-06T02:26Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "I'm afraid "wellness" is a buzzword. It's a marketing term nothing more. It is basically meaningless and an excuse to combine all sorts of quackery with the boring evidence-based health-promoting modalities of diet exercise lifestyle etc. @gorskon We're one of them. Wellness is not the enemy of medicine. Far from it. The tough part is separating the many evidence-based activities from the fluff. @gorskon We're one of them. Wellness is not the enemy of medicine. Far from it. The tough part is separating the many evidence-based activities from the fluff" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1026837751952535553) 2018-08-07T14:29Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Steve don't know me vewy well do he @gorskon None because (a) he isn't a doctor and (b) he won't understand any of them because he doesn't have the training. Best to ignore him. @gorskon None because (a) he isn't a doctor and (b) he won't understand any of them because he doesn't have the training. Best to ignore him" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1033112336796672007) 2018-08-24T22:02Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "And so it begins 1/ https://abc13.com/health/houston-health-officials-looking-at-possible-measles-case/4070225/ https://abc13.com/health/houston-health-officials-looking-at-possible-measles-case/4070225/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1034416507495829506) 2018-08-28T12:24Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Helene Langevin is named NCCIH director. Let the quackery flowagain https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/31/helene-langevin-named-nccih-director/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/31/helene-langevin-named-nccih-director/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1035513590533505024) 2018-08-31T13:04Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@StevenSalzberg1 @NIH @nccih Actually it's $142 million now remember π https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/03/27/nih-budget-hike-comes-less-welcome-large-hike-budget-nccih/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/03/27/nih-budget-hike-comes-less-welcome-large-hike-budget-nccih/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1035532499802370050) 2018-08-31T14:19Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Racism and misogyny: A twofer" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1039151143543341058) 2018-09-10T13:58Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "In any event one gone one to go. If @cochranecollab would now get rid of Tom Jefferson that would be a big step forward in cleaning house with respect to vaccines. As for Gtzsche good riddance I say 6/6 https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-recommended-childhood-vaccine-schedules-evidence-based/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-recommended-childhood-vaccine-schedules-evidence-based/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1041403432664485893) 2018-09-16T19:08Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@michaelghead @cochranecollab @Rosewind2007 I was unaware that Gtzsche had presented at anti-vax conferences or I certainly would have blogged about it. Got any links π§" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1041405063577698309) 2018-09-16T19:14Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@BenMazer @StevenSalzberg1 @skepticalraptor @bmj_latest Finally it's not just the flu vaccine. It's HPV too. Peter Doshi is getting if anything closer to being full antivax. https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/peter-doshi-anti-vaccine-false-authority/ https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/peter-doshi-anti-vaccine-false-authority/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1044202630879358977) 2018-09-24T12:31Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Correct. If there's one vaccine that really brings out the crazy in antivaxers more than the others it's HPV vaccines because sex. Antivaxxers are particularly against Gardasil hard as they try to disguise it because its the sex vaccine. Antivaxxers are particularly against Gardasil hard as they try to disguise it because its the sex vaccine" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1048577558357430274) 2018-10-06T14:15Z 72.3K followers, [---] engagements "@ProfJerde @OrganJM @aSciEnthusiast @TheSciBabe @wjsullivan @adamconover I saw this. It's been sitting in my folder of woo waiting for the time to write about it to he right" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1050454205775970305) 2018-10-11T18:32Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "I do so love basking in the adoration of my fans. This time I get to do it with @ksenapathy. Highly amusing. https://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/2018/10/22/kavin-senapathy/ https://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/2018/10/22/kavin-senapathy/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1054437588919037958) 2018-10-22T18:21Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "There are not enough π€¦β to cover this. WTF @TheTorontoSun Why are you publishing antivaccine propaganda in your Diet and Fitness section" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1056545758613331968) 2018-10-28T13:58Z 72.3K followers, [---] engagements "Ha I wrote my doctoral dissertation on a Mac LC using MS Word [--] and EndNote Plus [--]. That's right. I'm old" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1058047307898339328) 2018-11-01T17:25Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Yep. We get this in medicine all the time. The one thing I have no patience for is dudes (it's almost *always* dudes) who spend [--] minutes on something you've been studying for 10+ years and act like they've solved Fermat's Last Theorm The one thing I have no patience for is dudes (it's almost *always* dudes) who spend [--] minutes on something you've been studying for 10+ years and act like they've solved Fermat's Last Theorm" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1059221542079361024) 2018-11-04T23:11Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Yep. I wouldn't rely on Crichton for science given his longstanding climate science denialism. He could write a good thriller with science-y elements. That was his talent. π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1059578812671909890) 2018-11-05T22:50Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "The Spanish Flu pandemic of [----] was caused by an experimental vaccine A conspiracy theory I hadnt heard ofbefore https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/11/09/spanish-flu-pandemic-of-1918-was-caused-by-experimental-vaccine/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/11/09/spanish-flu-pandemic-of-1918-was-caused-by-experimental-vaccine/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1060940276464828418) 2018-11-09T17:00Z 77.8K followers, [--] engagements "@CaulfieldTim @DugaldSeely @axel_gutmann @kenjaques Correct. Also naturopaths tend to take perfectly science-based lifestyle interventions and add pseudoscience to them" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1060950587808845825) 2018-11-09T17:41Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "I'm not reliable Not a Doctor Paul owes me an irony meter" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1063804623608266754) 2018-11-17T14:42Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "Should I buy it πππ" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1076913152212779011) 2018-12-23T18:51Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "One difference: Patton was competent. Very competent at war" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1077052144530964480) 2018-12-24T04:03Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "I suspect she saw my blog post saying that because of the holidays I'm on vacation from blogging until next week meaning that I'm unlikely to deconstruct this when I return. π Good morning Dr @gorskon I thought you might be interested in this piece Dr. @DeepakChopra wrote https://t.co/3hJnNBDqw4 Good morning Dr @gorskon I thought you might be interested in this piece Dr. @DeepakChopra wrote https://t.co/3hJnNBDqw4" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1077766517498949632) 2018-12-26T03:22Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@ksenapathy Chopra's been railing against genetic determinism as long as I've been blogging at least. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/10/17/the-trouble-with-deepak-chopra-part-3/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/10/17/the-trouble-with-deepak-chopra-part-3/" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1077790250255241216) 2018-12-26T04:56Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements "@ksenapathy That's nice of you but he really doesn't deserve it.π" [X Link](https://x.com/gorskon/status/1077812897215057921) 2018-12-26T06:26Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. 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"@r0ck3t23 Too bad I want to retire in the next 5-7 years then isnt it (Not that I believe Musks bullshit. Ive heard this story before going back to my teen years in the 1970s.)"
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"@PeterAttiaMD What about the part where you said you would go into withdrawal without him (Epstein) Seriously it's bad that you were apparently buddies with him even if you didn't ride the Lolita Express"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:48Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@EricTopol @PeterAttiaMD Yeah basically. Attia is a supplement hawker now. No wonder he fits in so well with MAHA"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:49Z 73.4K followers, 11.5K engagements
"@TheModerateCase I take it you dont listen to Italian opera or songs in other languages. Sad that your horizons are so limited"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:02Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Correct. I've been warning for years that @SecKennedy's most cherished goal is to eliminate access to ALL vaccines in the US. Yet so many of my colleagues bought into his lie that he's "not antivax" but "pro-safety." Wrong. He's antivax and has been for at least two decades. Good morning. The goal of the anti-vaccine movement is not medical freedom. Thats just a lie. They literally want to ban vaccines. RFK Jr & allies have filed legal requests for the government to take shots for Covid polio and hepatitis B off the market so you have no choice. https://t.co/Fz0XkpGLEc Good morning. The goal"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:30Z 73.4K followers, 46.1K engagements
"The prior plausibility that ivermectin will be an effective anticancer agent is low. Yes it kills cancer cells in Petrie dishes but only at a very high concentration that is 50-100x what is safely achievable in the human bloodstream. These studies are a waste of resources. Ivermectin a macrocyclic lactone discovered in the mid-1970s plays a critical role in the treatment of a wide range of parasitic diseases in humans as well as in veterinary practice. Over the past decade researchers have explored repurposing this molecule as an anticancer Ivermectin a macrocyclic lactone discovered in the"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:02Z 73.4K followers, 54.3K engagements
"@jakepaul Why do you hate freedom of speech"
X Link 2026-02-16T01:38Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"I admire his enthusiasm but "drowning out" quackery and medical misinformation with good information just doesn't work. wish him luck but I wish he'd also talk to those of us who've been at just this thing for many years like @MarkHoofnagle and others. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doctor-recruiting-doctors-to-fight-fake-health-info-on-social-media.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doctor-recruiting-doctors-to-fight-fake-health-info-on-social-media.html"
X Link 2019-06-03T15:29Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@tarahaelle @DemFromCT @aetiology Gotta be honest here. I'm confused. Don't Tweet about her but it's OK to Tweet about her I'm getting mixed messages here. TBH I'm way more concerned about news stories with false balance failing to portray her and RFK Jr. as the antivax cranks they are than Twitter or blogs"
X Link 2019-06-14T18:59Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @DemFromCT @aetiology Also I make no apologies for my post about Biel today. People forget for instance just HOW antivax RFK Jr. is and how antivax Biel must be if she's willing to join forces with him. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/06/14/jessica-biel-latest-celebrity-antivaxer/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/06/14/jessica-biel-latest-celebrity-antivaxer/"
X Link 2019-06-14T19:02Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @ajafari81 @NaturoDiaries The problem is when you remove the quackery from naturopathy all that's left is life coaching"
X Link 2019-06-15T23:27Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"The Dunning-Kruger the sheer arrogance of ignorance on display here is breathtaking. Hospital systems were close to overwhelmed in several parts of the country and THAT WAS WITH THE STATES ON LOCKDOWN.π€¦β Universal & indefinite lockdowns were a misguided response to COVID-19. A lack of critical thinking cost millions of people their livelihoods. This isnt about blaming anyone but instead acknowledging this fact so that we do not repeat the same mistakes in the future. WATCH https://t.co/z8v05ORlih Universal & indefinite lockdowns were a misguided response to COVID-19. A lack of critical"
X Link 2020-06-12T21:19Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@tarahaelle @CT_Bergstrom Yes NEVER let antivaxxers claim the word skeptic. NEVER They are NOT skeptics"
X Link 2020-06-14T22:04Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Damn straight People who run a business that requires putting callers on hold: YOUR CHOICE OF HOLD MUSIC/MESSAGE IS NOT A TRIVIAL DECISION. People who run a business that requires putting callers on hold: YOUR CHOICE OF HOLD MUSIC/MESSAGE IS NOT A TRIVIAL DECISION"
X Link 2020-08-28T16:53Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @Lollardfish Indeed. Imbecile is another. Idiot moron and imbecile were actual clinical terms used by doctors to describe different levels of mental retardation"
X Link 2020-09-02T00:23Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @Lollardfish Idiot doesnt bother me as much and Ive been known to use the word on occasion but never moron or imbecile. I dont know why. The words all share the same history"
X Link 2020-09-02T00:44Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Wow the sea lions are out in force today"
X Link 2020-10-27T17:37Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@apoorva_nyc @naomirwolf Take it from someone who's studied and followed the antivaccine movement for nearly [--] years. It is a naive take. Personally I thought #COVID19 would decrease vaccine hesitancy but it's energized the antivaccine movement"
X Link 2020-12-08T01:38Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Is this too snarky a response to a troll questioning my qualifications Or just right I wouldn't want to be accused of being "uncivil" or "unprofessional" after all.π @RegimeChangeBC Actually I graduated from medical school in the late 1980s fool got my PhD in the early 1990s and have been a practicing cancer surgeon and researcher since the late 1990s. What are your qualificationsπ @RegimeChangeBC Actually I graduated from medical school in the late 1980s fool got my PhD in the early 1990s and have been a practicing cancer surgeon and researcher since the late 1990s. What are your"
X Link 2020-12-11T04:25Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"This is the completely predictable result of a President who never took governing seriously and is utterly terrible at it. So a lot of chatter happening on the slow vaccine roll out Personally I'm incredibly frustrated. Did we not know that vaccines were coming Is vaccine administration a surprise Several complex issues so lets break things down a bit Warning this is a bit of a rant Thread So a lot of chatter happening on the slow vaccine roll out Personally I'm incredibly frustrated. Did we not know that vaccines were coming Is vaccine administration a surprise Several complex issues so lets"
X Link 2020-12-29T11:25Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@tarahaelle And I complained about feeling fatigued the next day and taking an involuntary unscheduled 3+ hour nap the next afternoon.π"
X Link 2021-01-08T07:32Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @DLeonhardt Holy hell Thats about as horrible a message you can convey when reporting about vaccines. Totally antivax dog whistling as anyone with familiarity with the antivaccine movement would know and would know not to write.ππ€¦π»β"
X Link 2021-01-19T00:57Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle Its so depressing to see its depressing to see Johnny-come-latelys unaware of what has gone before and what has been learned about vaccine messaging"
X Link 2021-01-19T01:34Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@Yr_Comrade_JP Not so much at least not around where I am. Most people in their 20s with whom I work have never heard of it and are at best maybe vaguely aware of who Monty Python are"
X Link 2021-02-28T00:42Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"My father had it and Ive known a fair number of people whove also had it including one who almost had eye involvement. Its horrible"
X Link 2021-03-01T02:01Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"So @facebook's brain dead algorithm strikes again locking me (an administrator) out of posting to the @ScienceBasedMed for [--] hours because I posted an article from @oracknows deconstructing a dubious treatment for #COVID19. FB your #COVID19 misinformation algorithm is π©"
X Link 2021-03-21T14:02Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@tarahaelle @Facebook @ScienceBasedMed @oracknows @BarryKarr @PolitiFact @SkeptInquirer I'm not a reporter but you should totally pitch a story about this. All I can do is complain on Twitter (and once the ban is gone) on Facebook (without a link to the material that got me banned)"
X Link 2021-03-21T14:33Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle Yes. I think its fairly common knowledge"
X Link 2021-08-04T05:56Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle And I thought I was obsessive when doing research for a blog post.π"
X Link 2021-08-09T22:26Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Crap. Shes not wrong. I wish she were but shes not. I finally figured it out. Whats wrong. It feels like fucking April [----] again. I finally figured it out. Whats wrong. It feels like fucking April [----] again"
X Link 2021-08-10T11:48Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@PeterHotez I admire your optimism but I highly doubt that you could have made a difference. This is ideology tied to identity. Changing it is as difficult as changing someone's religion or political orientation"
X Link 2021-08-28T23:52Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"If John had been paying attention to the antivaccine movement for two decades (or even just a few years) he wouldnt ask questions like this. He would also understand that the politicization of vaccine mandates started years before the pandemic starting with school mandates. 1/"
X Link 2021-09-07T10:13Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@tarahaelle No doubt. I just noted that you only have to have been paying attention a few years to realize this"
X Link 2021-09-09T23:59Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @JohnFrost @MadPhysiologist Depends what you mean by "recent" though. Antivaxxers and @GOP-supporting Tea Party groups started aligning with each other over "mandates" at least a decade ago"
X Link 2022-01-11T14:35Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Now I've gone and done it. It looks as though by pointing out how crypto is basically a speculative bubble/pump and dump scam that I've started to attract the attention of crypto bros telling me how "wrong" I am.π¬"
X Link 2022-01-13T13:28Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@tarahaelle @RMCarpiano Think RFK Jr. in Harlem. Lots of Black speakers but a definitepaucityof melanin in the attendees. This is very on brand. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/10/23/harlem-vaccine-forum-rfk/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/10/23/harlem-vaccine-forum-rfk/"
X Link 2022-01-22T07:14Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @glinch72 Its the Nirvana fallacy. If an intervention is not 100% safe and effective to them its useless and dangerous"
X Link 2022-02-13T12:10Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @xinfinity22 @AtomsksSanakan @CT_Bergstrom @JHowardBrainMD @GidMK @aetiology @GYamey Yes. It was a paper published in December that tried to smear science communicators who were frequently interviewed in the media as not being in the top 2% of their disciplines by citation indices"
X Link 2022-02-27T21:13Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@alexbryant_ @jasonintrator @LeopoldHess I'll give one example . All the anti-trans legislation banning gender-affirming care characterize it as "experimental." That's a play straight out of the antivax playbook that LONG predates #COVID19 mRNA vaccines to characterize the childhood vaccine schedule as "experimental.""
X Link 2022-06-08T20:24Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle It hasn't worked for me the last couple of times I tried it. I'd use it it'd appear to work and then I'd check my Twitter block list only to find that no one had been added to it. I think it's borked"
X Link 2022-08-17T18:34Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@FormerAntivax @tarahaelle I use Safari on my computers and the Twitter app on my phone; so that wouldn't help me"
X Link 2022-08-17T20:12Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Its been a while but I still love basking in the adulation of my fans"
X Link 2022-09-22T16:05Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Quite predictably (painfully so) Steve Kirsch thinks he can harass me by writing about me. Dude this ain't my first rodeo and far scarier disinformation agents than you have tried. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-david-gorski-defends-the-narrative https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-david-gorski-defends-the-narrative"
X Link 2022-10-09T17:01Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"And @drdrew's descent further and further down the antivax rabbit grift hole continues. Dr. David Wiseman Ex J&J Scientist and Drug Developer Warns of mRNA-Induced Spike Protein w/ Dr. Kelly Victory LIVE on @AskDrDrew https://t.co/5WOrIbU1jd Dr. David Wiseman Ex J&J Scientist and Drug Developer Warns of mRNA-Induced Spike Protein w/ Dr. Kelly Victory LIVE on @AskDrDrew https://t.co/5WOrIbU1jd"
X Link 2022-12-15T22:08Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@KevinKijewski "Crushing dissent at any cost" Seriously Listen to yourself. Listen to how idiotic (or dishonest) you sound. Your whataboutism is pathetic even by the subterranean standards of @MIGOP"
X Link 2025-10-18T12:19Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@SenBillCassidy @POTUS Too bad you dont seem all that bothered that @SecKennedy is decimating the US vaccine schedule. You helped him be confirmed. You are as much to blame for the impending carnage as he is"
X Link 2026-01-06T23:34Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The Holocaust wasnt just Auschwitz either. It took nearly a decade to go from persecuting Jews and excluding them from society to killing them on an industrial scale. @LePapillonBlu2 Not everything is the holocaust @LePapillonBlu2 Not everything is the holocaust"
X Link 2026-01-17T14:38Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@VigilantFox All of @billmaher's claims are of course bullshit. But then I expect that of him. He's been an antivaxxer and supporter of quackery going back at least [--] years"
X Link 2026-01-19T17:45Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As [----] dawns look for @SecKennedy to ramp up his assault on vaccines using policy-based evidence making and altering Vaccine Court standards. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/"
X Link 2026-01-19T17:46Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Apparently our chief fascist believes that Star Trek V was the artistic height of the franchise.π€¦π»β Of course what he really hates is that Star Trek has always been about diversity and overcoming differences to work together for a better future. Tragic. But its not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control. Tragic. But its not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control"
X Link 2026-01-19T20:33Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@ValerieAnne1970 The study showed nothing of the sort given how badly it was designed executed and analyzed (if you can call it that)"
X Link 2026-01-19T21:50Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@KatherineEban @gavi The reason @SecKennedy is aligning the US vaccine schedule with Denmarks thats obvious to those of us whove been following him for [--] yrs. He is antivax and wants to eliminate as many vaccines as possible. Denmark vaccinates against fewer diseases than any EU nation. Bingo"
X Link 2026-01-19T21:54Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@KatherineEban @gavi @SecKennedy Using the excuse of making the US Denmark hes slashed the US schedule by more than a third. Thats just his first big move. He wont stop there. He wont stop until hes eliminated all vaccines if he can. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-6/"
X Link 2026-01-19T21:56Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"He might be correct here. This Whole Milk campaign was 100% supposed to be a Raw Milk campaign and the Admins lawyers had to inform them what a stupid idea that was. The marketing money was already gone so they pivoted to whole milk instead. Its so incredibly obvious. This Whole Milk campaign was 100% supposed to be a Raw Milk campaign and the Admins lawyers had to inform them what a stupid idea that was. The marketing money was already gone so they pivoted to whole milk instead. Its so incredibly obvious"
X Link 2026-01-20T00:30Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@GeoRebekah @DHSgov ICE always lies"
X Link 2026-01-24T22:29Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Once again you are as much to blame for this as @SecKennedy. You voted to forward his nomination to the full Senate. You voted to confirm him. You violated your Hippocratic Oath and failed as a Senator and a human being. This is as much on you as it is on RFK Jr. and Milhoan. Claiming that risk from vaccines is greater than the threat from disease has led to highest rate of measles in decades. Undermining faith in polio vaccine will lead to paralyzed children. What others are doing will be blamed on President Trump. Unfair but true. Claiming that risk from vaccines is greater than the"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:02Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@SarahisCensored Bullshit. Stop lying"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:02Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@jsm2334 @MeghanEMurphy Antivaxxers frequently engage in binary thinking. If a vaccine isn't 100% effective in preventing illness to them it's "doesn't work." If it doesn't stop transmission 100% of the time it "doesn't stop transmission." It's weaponizing a lack of understanding of probability"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:09Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@pvtjokerus That's a federal agent not Pretti. Stop lying"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:10Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@michaelshermer WTF happened to you man There was a time when I respected you as a skeptic but now you seem to be an administration apologist. That isn't skepticism particularly when you blame the victim like this. Despicable and disappointing"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:13Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@StrangerDavy @michaelshermer I've been asking the same thing myself. [--] years ago I appeared on the same speaking bill with Shermer in Montreal and was starstruck to hang out with him a couple of hours the day of the talks. Now I keep asking: WTF happened to him or did I miss something all along"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:16Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@NRA In the end you will do nothing. You won't use the NRA's massive resources to file lawsuits or protest this. You will comply because all that Second Amendment fetishism about "resisting tyranny" was cosplay. You don't mind tyranny as long as the tyrant is one of yours"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:23Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@michaelshermer I mean seriously. https://x.com/kklamonty/status/2015300680479629495s=20 @NRA @C_C_Krebs https://t.co/roIwcJA4a3 https://x.com/kklamonty/status/2015300680479629495s=20 @NRA @C_C_Krebs https://t.co/roIwcJA4a3"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:24Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@SecVetAffairs Your nose is so far up Trump's rectum you can see his uvula from the inside"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:49Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@HodlMagoo I call bullshit but if that's true it would be trivial for ballistics to determine if the weapon had been fired. (I bet that it has not been fired but I don't trust ICE to do an honest investigation.)"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:51Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@erikkain @Undonepuppet I swear ICE apologists seem to yearn to turn the US into Megacity One with real Judge Dredd and his fellow Judges serving as instant judge jury and executioner. Guys Judge Dredd was always meant as a satire of fascism not as a template for an actual government"
X Link 2026-01-26T11:23Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@DrNeilStone @Tim_Walz Um no. I've been studying the Holocaust as an area of interest since the 1970s. ICE strongly resembles the SA a gang of violent thugs being used to terrorize punish and kill enemies of the Party and then later the state"
X Link 2026-01-26T14:17Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@SenTomCotton I see this claim presented without evidence a lot. Tell you what. Explain to us exactly how better cooperation between Minnesota law enforcement and ICE would have prevented this tragedy. Give me details. I'll wait"
X Link 2026-01-26T14:21Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@allenanalysis If he and ICE would just stop kidnapping people and acting like the Gestapo we'd stop calling them kidnappers and the Gestapo. Easy"
X Link 2026-01-26T14:22Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@JazzyJ87283918 @allenanalysis @mycherieamour25 Not exactly. MAGA was never against authoritarianism. They just wanted the authoritarian who destroys democracy in the US to be one of their own. All the appeals to "freedom" were about their freedom alone no one else's"
X Link 2026-01-26T14:23Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Mike_Cox Ask yourself: How well did DOGE work out when Elon Musk tried it. (Hint: Not very well at all. In some cases his cuts ended up costing the government more than if he had done nothing.)"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:32Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@WomanDefiner Ah yes. Obviously a crime worthy of the death penalty by summary execution by officers shooting him ten times ππ€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-01-27T00:55Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@MarivicVillaMD5 He's an incompetent hack who routinely publishes utter crap for "science.""
X Link 2026-01-27T00:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@mcfunny @MarivicVillaMD5 Dr. Villa is into anti-aging medicine which always raises my skeptical antennae for a quack"
X Link 2026-01-27T00:56Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"No it's obvious that @AmerAcadPeds actually cares about the health of children unlike you and your support for child labor and @SecKennedy and MAHA. Is the racket not obvious The AAP is funded by the shot makers. The docs are paid per shot. The paper decrying the new recommendations is funded in major part by pharma. https://t.co/JnSdl33JOj Is the racket not obvious The AAP is funded by the shot makers. The docs are paid per shot. The paper decrying the new recommendations is funded in major part by pharma. https://t.co/JnSdl33JOj"
X Link 2026-01-27T00:58Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@BlueBoxDave So seem to be implying that the appropriate penalty for such a "crime" is summary public execution by being shot ten times.π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:02Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Jenna_DC @NickMiroff As much as I hope this is true it's nowhere near enough. He and his boss need to face justice for their crimes"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:10Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@TheBrancaShow One little problem with your take bud: The agents didn't know he had a gun until after they tackled him and then one of them had clearly already disarmed him when his fellow ICE agents opened fire at point blank range. π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:15Z 73.4K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Last week was a hellscape for vaccines with a RICO lawsuit against the AAP and the newly antivax CDC coming for your HPV and polio vaccines. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-7-what-me-worry-about-polio-and-hpv/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-definitely-coming-for-your-vaccines-part-7-what-me-worry-about-polio-and-hpv/"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:20Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@SenMikeLee Oh but they do. If they vote together they do thanks to the filibuster. Sorry if you don't like it but it's the Senate and you're a Senator. You know the rules"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:44Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"AAP is following the scientific evidence. @SecKennedy is not. He chose to make America Denmark as far as its vaccine schedules go not because of any inherent superiority of Denmark's schedule but rather because Denmark vaccinates against the fewest diseases of any EU nation"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:47Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@mattmfm He needs to be prosecuted for his crimes. I know that won't happen at least not while Trump is still in office but in the meantime ostracization is the next best thing"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:48Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Miseducate is more like it. Thats what antivaxxers do. CHD: WE HELP EDUCATE. @ChildrensHD https://t.co/emX8LYJ0E5 https://t.co/DX67XcJFwy CHD: WE HELP EDUCATE. @ChildrensHD https://t.co/emX8LYJ0E5 https://t.co/DX67XcJFwy"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:19Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Or maybejust maybeits appropriate to call a narrative that has the elements of a conspiracy theory and lacks any compelling evidence to support it what it is a conspiracy theory. Saying that something is a conspiracy theory is not an argument. The term is a stigma that stands in place of an argument where the case against conspiracy is too weak to prevail on merit. Saying that something is a conspiracy theory is not an argument. The term is a stigma that stands in place of an argument where the case against conspiracy is too weak to prevail on merit"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:24Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Tell me you don't understand the difference between a condition and a diagnosis of that condition without telling me you don't understand the difference between a condition and a diagnosis of that condition. Either that or Del understands but knows that his audience doesn't Doctors and so-called "scientific professionals" keep telling parents of autistic children: "Autism isn't increasing. We're just diagnosing it better." Let's pause and actually THINK about that claim. Right now nationally [--] in [--] children is being diagnosed with autism. In https://t.co/qJpmn23ZQJ Doctors and so-called"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:55Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"LOL. @drmarkhyman Seriously the dude is an antivax supplement-hawking "functional medicine" quack. I've been writing for nearly two decades about the nonsense he's been laying down for far longer than that.π€¦π»β Tough questions. Straight answers. CBS News has gathered the sharpest minds on the topics that matter most. @elliotackerman @PeterAttiaMD @AlinejadMasih @arthurbrooks Roger Carstens Caroline Chambers Clare de Boer Sir Niall Ferguson Roland Fryer Jr. @hubermanlab @coldxman https://t.co/2cQP7dADeW Tough questions. Straight answers. CBS News has gathered the sharpest minds on the topics"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:10Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Imagine using words like "functional medicine" and "holistic" unironically to describe quackery. @gorskon @drmarkhyman Imagine using prapaganda buzzwords like " antivax" unironically @gorskon @drmarkhyman Imagine using prapaganda buzzwords like " antivax" unironically"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:50Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I've been writing about Hyman for nearly two decades. I can describe in nauseating detailwith receiptswhy he's a quack and document his history of antivax statements BTW I use my titles in my handle because it triggers people like you so easily.π @gorskon @drmarkhyman Hopefully we are approaching the time when simply calling someone names & pointing out their supposedly views in a straw-man exaggerated way is not enough to dismiss what they have to say just because the bully has some university-supplied letters after their name. @gorskon @drmarkhyman Hopefully we are approaching the time"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:52Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@ChrisCillizza Oh please. There's putting Babe Ruth at the plate and then there's putting a minor league hack at the plate"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:54Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@donaldGrahame @shallit43 @drmarkhyman "Multimedia design and development - senior UX designer" OK that's exactly whom I'd trust regarding scientific questions related to medicine and medical care.π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-01-29T02:07Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
""Multimedia design and development - senior UX designer" Exactly whom I would pick as my go-to source about the science of medicine and vaccines.π€¦π»βπ€£ @shallit43 @gorskon @drmarkhyman If your vax research is as thorough as your research for your online bullying "adhominens" you don't know anything much about vaccines or science lol. Buried in my LinkedIn profile is some of my scientific & government health & safety experience. https://t.co/noTRnEkrHh @shallit43 @gorskon @drmarkhyman If your vax research is as thorough as your research for your online bullying "adhominens" you don't know"
X Link 2026-01-29T02:08Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"That's not the reason why he lost his medical license. He lost his medical license for being a quack. As for his "study" it's so bad and was so unethical that it was quite appropriately retracted. Dr. Paul Thomas lost his license for publishing a study showing the dramatic differences in health outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. https://t.co/XKC5QJKB4B Dr. Paul Thomas lost his license for publishing a study showing the dramatic differences in health outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. https://t.co/XKC5QJKB4B"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:02Z 73.4K followers, 20.3K engagements
"@IanCopeland5 @karma44921039 So cute. The anonymous troll thinks he knows enough to have found a "gotcha" that proves his conspiracy theory. I want to pat him on the head like a five-year-old child.π"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:08Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Speak truth to powerπ€£ Mr. Shermers platform is far larger than ours. (We rarely get radio and TV interview gigs nor have we ever been featured in fawning articles about something like the intellect dark web.) Relatively speaking compared to us Mr. Shermer is power*. P.S. @ScienceBasedMed I am not "obsessed" with people's genitals. I am either asked my opinion on Trans matters or I am responding to a big media story (eg men in women's sports & spaces) no different from any other trending issue people on X post about (eg ICE). As I P.S. @ScienceBasedMed I am not "obsessed" with people's"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:52Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Of course Mr. Shermer finds it convenient to try to convince you that hes the underdog speaking truth to power because it lets him portray himself as a a Galileo-like figure. (And what did Mr. Shermer say about those who claim the mantle of Galileo)"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:52Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Nah. Just science-based medicine.π"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:53Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"And physicians have a duty not to practice substandard medicine and not to endanger their other patients. It is not coercion for a physician to decline patients whose parents wont vaccinate. It is ethics. Florida parents have an absolute right to make informed medical decisions for their children without coercion including the decision to receive or decline vaccines. It will always be unethical for pediatricians to deny care based on a parent's vaccination preferences because Florida parents have an absolute right to make informed medical decisions for their children without coercion"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:59Z 73.4K followers, 48.4K engagements
"Remember how I frequently point out that when antivaxxers say informed consent what they really mean is misinformed refusal This is an example. Also shared decision-making is just the latest antivax term rebranded to mean the same thing. Risk exceeds benefit for all vaccines. If fully informed no one would take them and ethical clinicians wouldnt give them. Get rid of mandates and coercion and watch the huge Pharma vaccine gravy train go off the rails. @FLSurgeonGen @SecKennedy Risk exceeds benefit for all vaccines. If fully informed no one would take them and ethical clinicians wouldnt give"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:01Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"OK. I must admit that this made me chuckle. We all know the real causation https://t.co/sYZgn8DRPR We all know the real causation https://t.co/sYZgn8DRPR"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:07Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Hey medicine is one of the only industries left that uses FAX machines and pagers too.π€£ Its [----]. I can stream a movie on my phone with zero lag. Cars drive themselves. AI bots argue with each other on the internet. And yet the only way to compare a patients prior MRI to a new one is to send a courier two hours away to pick up a CD-ROM from another hospital. Its [----]. I can stream a movie on my phone with zero lag. Cars drive themselves. AI bots argue with each other on the internet. And yet the only way to compare a patients prior MRI to a new one is to send a courier two hours away to pick"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:09Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@NickAdamsinUSA Of all the things that never happened this is the never happenedest.π€£"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:11Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@michaelshermer @ScienceBasedMed Dr. Howard who no longer posts on X informs me that he can't DM you. He tried. He says you can DM him if you wish.π That brings up the question: Why am I still on this hellsite π€£"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:17Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As for our supposedly being obsessed with trans issues at SBM just for yucks I looked at how much weve published pushing back against claims made by people like Mr. Shermer. Its a grand total of [--] articles the most recent of which was over [--] years ago (before @19joho)"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:05Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@19joho Thats right. Until now @ScienceBasedMed has not published an article on gender or gender-affirming care since December [----]. How times I wonder has Mr. Shermer complained about woke takes on gender-affirming care and transgender people during that time"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:07Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@19joho @ScienceBasedMed I was actually a bit abashed to see that we havent written about the misinformation about gender-affirming care for that long. Thats on me"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:08Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@mcfunny @ChrisVeber1 It makes me laugh out loud that these idiots dont know the difference between the SV40 virus and the SV40 promoter. Either that or they do know but know that their followers do not (i.e. theyre lying). Take your pick"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:11Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Hank ignores the sharp rightward trend in the political center of gravity of the antivax movement that Ive been documenting at least [--] years. It began with antivaxxers reaching out to Tea Party groups in 2009-10 accelerated around [----] and was turbocharged by the pandemic. Media/social media have gone full "1984" about the anti-vax movement. They pretend it just erupted. It was there but Democrats and therefore downplayed. More kids died just in California of Whooping Cough in [----] than nationwide in [----]. Because of coastal progressives. https://t.co/zhNkOlkY2W Media/social media have gone"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Moreover although the stereotype of antivaxxers on the 2000s was of hippy dippy crunchy lefties on the coasts in reality theres always been a strong right wing component to the antivax movement. It just wasnt dominant then in the way that it undeniably is now"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:56Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Theres no denying that right here right now in the US the political center of gravity of the antivax movement is far right. I wrote about how we got here four () years ago. https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/28/why-is-there-now-such-an-affinity-between-antivaxxers-and-fascism/ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/28/why-is-there-now-such-an-affinity-between-antivaxxers-and-fascism/"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Mike_Cox Guns didnt exist when Gods laws were handed to humans.π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-01-31T20:27Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Of course Mark Ruffalo has a lot of talent. Rob Schneider on the other hand does not.π€£ Rob Schneider: "Mark Ruffalo could say whatever he wants against Trump and he'll still get work as an actor. But if an actor like me dares question the tribe of Democrats that's it. You're out of Hollywood." https://t.co/SadZ2Zx6eC Rob Schneider: "Mark Ruffalo could say whatever he wants against Trump and he'll still get work as an actor. But if an actor like me dares question the tribe of Democrats that's it. You're out of Hollywood." https://t.co/SadZ2Zx6eC"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:16Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
""Ad hominem." π Dear David @gorskon and Jon @TheDrJon When you go ad hominem you self-identify as losers. But I do appreciate the repost. π» Dear David @gorskon and Jon @TheDrJon When you go ad hominem you self-identify as losers. But I do appreciate the repost. π»"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:11Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
".@NIHDirector_Jay has recently said that he wants to transform the @NIH into the research arm of #MAHA and a central driver of the #MAHA agenda. Lysenkoism [---] continues apace at NIH. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:13Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@jsm2334 @NIHDirector_Jay Lets just say that Im far less impressed than you. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast-jay-vs-nih/"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:35Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@BenMazer @jsm2334 @NIHDirector_Jay Yup. And when he regurgitates lab leak conspiracy theories"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:35Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"My ears are bleeding just imagining this show. Turning Point USA has announced the performers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show: Kid Rock Brantley Gilbert Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett https://t.co/epTYU3NbmY Turning Point USA has announced the performers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show: Kid Rock Brantley Gilbert Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett https://t.co/epTYU3NbmY"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:16Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Andanother one bites the dust.π Dr. Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as Chief Science Officer at David. We remain focused on serving our customers. Dr. Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as Chief Science Officer at David. We remain focused on serving our customers"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:24Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Were setting the global standard for public health Actually thats what Im afraid of because with respect to infectious diseases and public health what happens in the US wont stay in the US. Framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedys leadership the CDC has surged resources including vaccines and therapeutics nationwide to support state and local response efforts and Framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedys"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:27Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@WallStreetApes FAFO. The GOP shouldn't have tried to do a mid-decade gerrymander"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:18Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Let's just say that @19joho's YouTube channel provides a far more reliable history of the pandemic than the @nytimes particularly given its platforming of @NIHDirector_Jay's historical revisionism. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/podcastjaybhattacharya/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/podcastjaybhattacharya/"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:06Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@mattsheffield Antivax and anti-psychiatry pseudoscience often go hand and hand"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:19Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@SBakerMD We warned everyone. Antivax and anti-psychiatry frequently go hand-in-hand and @SecKennedy is an extremist believer in both forms of pseudoscience and quackery"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:20Z 73.4K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Indeed just like the way we surgeons sometimes say that all bleeding stops. If you fast long enough - its true you will bring any disease process to a final end If you fast long enough - its true you will bring any disease process to a final end"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:20Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@VitoComedy @AlecLace Also imagine willfully ignoring hundreds of years of history of racist portrayals of Blacks as monkeys or apes"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:51Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@ChildrensHD Maybe if pretty much all antivax papers weren't such utter crap from a scientific standpoint their authors wouldn't be dragged so badly"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:43Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@jsm2334 @ChildrensHD Also virtually all the sorts of papers that CHD is talking about are antivax "studies" that are scientifically pure crap. Maybe if they could publish better science they wouldn't be dragged so bad but then if they could publish better they wouldn't be antivaxxers"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:44Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Wow. Florida will let any old quack get a medical license. https://makisw.substack.com/p/breaking-news-my-florida-medical https://makisw.substack.com/p/breaking-news-my-florida-medical"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:00Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow. This is the biggest antivax straw man argument that I've ever seen. I'm grudgingly impressed. Deeply misguided @wapo opinion piece by Pharma leader @ScottGottliebMD . I was taught in my first-year medical school ID course that humans live in a vast ocean of microbes in our environment our skin in every body cavity. The vast majority cause no harm and some have a https://t.co/P1VPAAxlvD Deeply misguided @wapo opinion piece by Pharma leader @ScottGottliebMD . I was taught in my first-year medical school ID course that humans live in a vast ocean of microbes in our environment our skin in"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:17Z 73.4K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Notice how he misses the point about his straw man: The idea that all [--] billion humans need [----] new vaccines to prevent every infection Hint: No one argues this. @gorskon πππ I am flattered but opposing corporate welfare for a hypothetical new EBV vaccine proposed by a pharma corporate board member is not antivax . . . https://t.co/rikbHhPT3S @gorskon πππ I am flattered but opposing corporate welfare for a hypothetical new EBV vaccine proposed by a pharma corporate board member is not antivax . . . https://t.co/rikbHhPT3S"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:05Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Graham_Wharton I doubt hed post this publicly if it hasnt happened but point taken. Ill wait"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:06Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Misrepresenting legitimate biomedical research is what antivaxxers like @SecKennedy do. Harvard's Dr. Palmer corrects RFK that he hasn't "cured" anyone with schizophrenia with a keto diet - and goes on to say MAGA is detrimental to universities like Harvard trying to advance medical science. MAGA isn't trustworthy medical advice. https://t.co/qlxTj5cDEm https://t.co/EhEdjDZ6MX Harvard's Dr. Palmer corrects RFK that he hasn't "cured" anyone with schizophrenia with a keto diet - and goes on to say MAGA is detrimental to universities like Harvard trying to advance medical science. MAGA isn't"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:16Z 73.4K followers, 18K engagements
"Ouch. Could cut down on the social media posting. Just saying. https://t.co/0VH7n2Lzd7 Could cut down on the social media posting. Just saying. https://t.co/0VH7n2Lzd7"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:18Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@billifer1973 @CynicalPublius Of course hes a raging hypocrite. Nearly all these MAGA free speech bros are. For years they demanded free speech with freedom from consequences for themselves. Now that Trump is in power they are more than happy to invoke consequences for speech they dont like"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:20Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@BenMazer Ha I spent the pandemic taking on Jay Bhattacharya. Now that he's @NIHDirector_Jay (and called me a "threat to science" about a year ago after he'd been nominated I'm still criticizing the hell out of him even though I still apply for NIH funding.π€£"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:07Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@BenMazer @JeremyLamb19 Yeah same with my criticism of "Podcast Jay" Bhattacharya given that he's NIH Director now.π€£"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:08Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@StoneyHydro @WallStreetMav All the MAGA types who were ranting about "free speech" during the pandemic and the Biden administration are strangely silent about Trump's actual weaponization of the federal government to suppress speech. Instead they prefer to vent about athletes saying things they don't like"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:31Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Funny but @thackerpd says this as though it were a bad thing that I communicate with fellow scientists opposed to science denial like @MichaelEMann.π€£"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:43Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Quelle surpries. @thackerpd is a transphobe too and clearly didn't read @19joho's post"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:44Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@MichaelEMann @thackerpd @NaomiOreskes Im not sure anymore that he was ever a good guy"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:59Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@SaiyanMarz @timjhogan He cant even lip sync well"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:00Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@covie_93 He had the words "Only love is stronger than hate" posted on the giant screen at the end of the performance. That will do it"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:07Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@TJR_MtBiker791 @DaniJurinsky This is hilarious. Trump won. He's in power. MAGA is in power. Yet it's never enough. MAGA wants everyone to love and agree with it and when they don't MAGA throws a temper tantrum and tries to make them love them"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:11Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@danielledsouzag @KidRock Yes show love to all countries and people. After all there's no need to dust off old Bibles to love your neighbor"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:13Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@jakepaul Puerto Rico is an American territory and Bad Bunny is an American citizen you dolt"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:28Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@covie_93 Or was it "The only thing stronger than hate is love" I forget. Either way such a message is very triggering to MAGA"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:31Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@TPUSA @KidRock He also can't lip sync very well. Hell I could lip sync that song better than he did.π€£"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:32Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@VigilantFox Because if there's anyone who embodies Jesus' values and lives a Christ-like life it has to be Kid Rock.π€£π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:43Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@VigilantFox @Maggie82616346 Funny but Kid Rock can't even lip sync well"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:43Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@erikkain It was astounding and spectacular. I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into the conception choreography and rehearsals"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:44Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@NickAdamsinUSA You can't even make your lies a little bit plausible. (Hint: Bad Bunny's viewership crushed TPUSA.)"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:45Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@seanmdav That crapfest took two months to put together I thought they'd just thrown it together the week before. Certainly that's how it looked"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:47Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@gerardtbaker Because MAGA hates brown people and can't stand having a Puerto Rican like Bad Bunny perform a halftime show in Spanish that celebrates Latin culture and promotes love over hate. It's just that simple"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:49Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@travisakers I assume you're being satirical but these days I never know for sure"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:20Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@KidRock Oh please. The singing continued when the microphone was nowhere near your mouth. Your voice isn't that powerful.π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:54Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@CeeHawk Talk about missing the point of the song.π€£π€¦π»β"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:56Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@eddiespage @GlockfordFiles Yeah it is hilarious how much MAGA CHUDs have their panties in a bunch over Bad Bunny's suggestive lyrics all while ignoring lyrics by MAGA favs like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent that are outright about lusting over underaged girls"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:59Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@itsmorganariel So Your point Why is that a problem here"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:00Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@TheSWPrincess @itsmorganariel They took away Lady Gaga's Italian white card because she participated in the Bad Bunny show"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:01Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Acyn He does know that Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican and therefore an American citizen doesn't he"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:06Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@CollinRugg Things have gotten really bad in MAGA-Land when Piers Morgan is the voice of reason"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:07Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@richie__ryan @jonlemire @center4inquiry What I fear is that @realDonaldTrump will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to run @CDCgov"
X Link 2017-01-10T16:43Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @Richie__Ryan @JonLemire @center4inquiry @realDonaldTrump @RobertKennedyJr @CDCgov No Senate confirmation required"
X Link 2017-01-10T17:40Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@mbalter @tarahaelle Critics of Israel are way too eager to embrace old anti-Semitic tropes actually"
X Link 2017-08-18T18:57Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @ACSHorg @pxwhittle @skepticpedi @jamiewellsmd @julemieux1 @AlexBerezow @JoshBloomACSH I've noticed for a purported public advocacy group ACSH is might touchy about certain things. Not great PR of them to lash out that way"
X Link 2017-09-29T23:00Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @ACSHorg @DrJenGunter @HankCampbell Of that I have little doubt. I just looked at the study they cited not the others"
X Link 2017-09-30T00:19Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@skepticpedi @JoshBloomACSH @tarahaelle @Elianok10 @ACSHorg @pxwhittle @jamiewellsmd @julemieux1 @AlexBerezow It's not that hard. Yesterday I Tweeted there was cholera in PR. I was criticized. I did more research & found I was wrong. I admitted it"
X Link 2017-10-01T18:51Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @thackerpd @UCSF I liked the first part of the article but he lost me when he resurrected his conspiracy mongering about the @JonEntine and the @GeneticLiteracy"
X Link 2018-02-02T14:26Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@tarahaelle @kausikdatta22 @ksenapathy @ejwillingham The same applies to me. I only occasionally write about GMOs. I did however take on a couple of particularly bad anti-GMO studies and wrote a post comparing the anti-GMO movement to the antivaccine movement. (Hint: They share MANY similarities.)"
X Link 2018-02-02T14:33Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Yes there is systemic racism in medicine. https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/06/fight-systemic-racism-in-medicine.html https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/06/fight-systemic-racism-in-medicine.html"
X Link 2018-06-05T15:03Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@SkepticsGuide @stevennovella @SkepticalDDS @crackedscience @skepticpedi @NECSS @PrismPodcast @FinchLydia @MrMMarsh @QEDcon Maybe "class system" doesn't quite convey the idea. Maybe "celebrity system" is a better term. Or maybe a bit of a hybrid. As for the rest Twitter is Twitter. I used say Twitter is limited too but discovered it's possible to have surprisingly in depth discussions on Twitter"
X Link 2018-06-08T13:52Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@ksenapathy @stevennovella A better way of saying it might be that the scientific method for the most part can transcend culture"
X Link 2018-06-08T18:10Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@ksenapathy @stevennovella Oh I've written more times than I can remember that the whole "Eastern"/"Western" dichotomy is racist as hell. It feeds into the whole caricature of the "West" (i.e. Europe) being more "rational" and the "East" (Asia) being more mystical and mysterious"
X Link 2018-06-08T18:18Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@ksenapathy @HankCampbell Only if they're what he perceives as left wing "identity politics." π"
X Link 2018-06-22T22:01Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Yes If Trump runs in [----] whoever runs against him should have Make America Great Again as their campaign slogan If Trump runs in [----] whoever runs against him should have Make America Great Again as their campaign slogan"
X Link 2018-07-27T17:35Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Antivax "thinking" such as it is in a nutshell. It does adjust me that whoever this is features "free thinker" on her Twitter bio"
X Link 2018-07-28T12:09Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
""The Wrath of Khan" is the best Star Trek movie of all. I'll fight you on that. However seeing the Apple version of it in 4K HDR on my new 4K TV I'm surprised at how dark the photography is"
X Link 2018-08-06T02:26Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"I'm afraid "wellness" is a buzzword. It's a marketing term nothing more. It is basically meaningless and an excuse to combine all sorts of quackery with the boring evidence-based health-promoting modalities of diet exercise lifestyle etc. @gorskon We're one of them. Wellness is not the enemy of medicine. Far from it. The tough part is separating the many evidence-based activities from the fluff. @gorskon We're one of them. Wellness is not the enemy of medicine. Far from it. The tough part is separating the many evidence-based activities from the fluff"
X Link 2018-08-07T14:29Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Steve don't know me vewy well do he @gorskon None because (a) he isn't a doctor and (b) he won't understand any of them because he doesn't have the training. Best to ignore him. @gorskon None because (a) he isn't a doctor and (b) he won't understand any of them because he doesn't have the training. Best to ignore him"
X Link 2018-08-24T22:02Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"And so it begins 1/ https://abc13.com/health/houston-health-officials-looking-at-possible-measles-case/4070225/ https://abc13.com/health/houston-health-officials-looking-at-possible-measles-case/4070225/"
X Link 2018-08-28T12:24Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Helene Langevin is named NCCIH director. Let the quackery flowagain https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/31/helene-langevin-named-nccih-director/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/31/helene-langevin-named-nccih-director/"
X Link 2018-08-31T13:04Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@StevenSalzberg1 @NIH @nccih Actually it's $142 million now remember π https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/03/27/nih-budget-hike-comes-less-welcome-large-hike-budget-nccih/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/03/27/nih-budget-hike-comes-less-welcome-large-hike-budget-nccih/"
X Link 2018-08-31T14:19Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Racism and misogyny: A twofer"
X Link 2018-09-10T13:58Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"In any event one gone one to go. If @cochranecollab would now get rid of Tom Jefferson that would be a big step forward in cleaning house with respect to vaccines. As for Gtzsche good riddance I say 6/6 https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-recommended-childhood-vaccine-schedules-evidence-based/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-recommended-childhood-vaccine-schedules-evidence-based/"
X Link 2018-09-16T19:08Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@michaelghead @cochranecollab @Rosewind2007 I was unaware that Gtzsche had presented at anti-vax conferences or I certainly would have blogged about it. Got any links π§"
X Link 2018-09-16T19:14Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@BenMazer @StevenSalzberg1 @skepticalraptor @bmj_latest Finally it's not just the flu vaccine. It's HPV too. Peter Doshi is getting if anything closer to being full antivax. https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/peter-doshi-anti-vaccine-false-authority/ https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/peter-doshi-anti-vaccine-false-authority/"
X Link 2018-09-24T12:31Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Correct. If there's one vaccine that really brings out the crazy in antivaxers more than the others it's HPV vaccines because sex. Antivaxxers are particularly against Gardasil hard as they try to disguise it because its the sex vaccine. Antivaxxers are particularly against Gardasil hard as they try to disguise it because its the sex vaccine"
X Link 2018-10-06T14:15Z 72.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@ProfJerde @OrganJM @aSciEnthusiast @TheSciBabe @wjsullivan @adamconover I saw this. It's been sitting in my folder of woo waiting for the time to write about it to he right"
X Link 2018-10-11T18:32Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"I do so love basking in the adoration of my fans. This time I get to do it with @ksenapathy. Highly amusing. https://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/2018/10/22/kavin-senapathy/ https://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/2018/10/22/kavin-senapathy/"
X Link 2018-10-22T18:21Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"There are not enough π€¦β to cover this. WTF @TheTorontoSun Why are you publishing antivaccine propaganda in your Diet and Fitness section"
X Link 2018-10-28T13:58Z 72.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Ha I wrote my doctoral dissertation on a Mac LC using MS Word [--] and EndNote Plus [--]. That's right. I'm old"
X Link 2018-11-01T17:25Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Yep. We get this in medicine all the time. The one thing I have no patience for is dudes (it's almost always dudes) who spend [--] minutes on something you've been studying for 10+ years and act like they've solved Fermat's Last Theorm The one thing I have no patience for is dudes (it's almost always dudes) who spend [--] minutes on something you've been studying for 10+ years and act like they've solved Fermat's Last Theorm"
X Link 2018-11-04T23:11Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Yep. I wouldn't rely on Crichton for science given his longstanding climate science denialism. He could write a good thriller with science-y elements. That was his talent. π"
X Link 2018-11-05T22:50Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"The Spanish Flu pandemic of [----] was caused by an experimental vaccine A conspiracy theory I hadnt heard ofbefore https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/11/09/spanish-flu-pandemic-of-1918-was-caused-by-experimental-vaccine/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/11/09/spanish-flu-pandemic-of-1918-was-caused-by-experimental-vaccine/"
X Link 2018-11-09T17:00Z 77.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@CaulfieldTim @DugaldSeely @axel_gutmann @kenjaques Correct. Also naturopaths tend to take perfectly science-based lifestyle interventions and add pseudoscience to them"
X Link 2018-11-09T17:41Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"I'm not reliable Not a Doctor Paul owes me an irony meter"
X Link 2018-11-17T14:42Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Should I buy it πππ"
X Link 2018-12-23T18:51Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"One difference: Patton was competent. Very competent at war"
X Link 2018-12-24T04:03Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"I suspect she saw my blog post saying that because of the holidays I'm on vacation from blogging until next week meaning that I'm unlikely to deconstruct this when I return. π Good morning Dr @gorskon I thought you might be interested in this piece Dr. @DeepakChopra wrote https://t.co/3hJnNBDqw4 Good morning Dr @gorskon I thought you might be interested in this piece Dr. @DeepakChopra wrote https://t.co/3hJnNBDqw4"
X Link 2018-12-26T03:22Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@ksenapathy Chopra's been railing against genetic determinism as long as I've been blogging at least. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/10/17/the-trouble-with-deepak-chopra-part-3/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/10/17/the-trouble-with-deepak-chopra-part-3/"
X Link 2018-12-26T04:56Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@ksenapathy That's nice of you but he really doesn't deserve it.π"
X Link 2018-12-26T06:26Z 72.3K followers, [--] engagements
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