It would literally be an improvement to have a president pushing crystals, orbs and homeopathy than one pushing for bleach injections and heart-attack inducing drugs that lupus patients actually need.
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The reason I say this is to note how horribly gendered and sexist this country is. What Trump pushes is quack cures culturally stereotyped around men. We tolerate it in a way we would never tolerate quack cures culturally stereotyped around women.
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Marianne Williamson is a joke and everyone treats her as one, but honest to goodness Trump is a far bigger joke. At least Williamson is a self-made celebrity. Trump inherited $400 million and went bankrupt several times.
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No, David. Not everyone treats me as a joke. My career has been anything but that, perhaps not to you or to those who choose to caricature my existence. But who I am is who I am, and your misunderstanding and mudslinging does not determine what that is.
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you could do a lot of good and potentially save a lot of lives by wholly rejecting anti-vaxxers and anti-vax sentiments. It's not just right-wing anti-science promoters that get people killed.
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You have not been paying attention my friend. You, like many in the media, have run with a story that is not a description of her position. She has never questioned the science of vaccines, as a matter of fact has called for MORE science. Her only criticism has been of Big Pharma
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"we need more science to determine if vaccines are safe" is an old anti-vaxx trick, very similar to "we need more science to determine if climate change is real" or "we need more studies to determine if cigarettes *really* cause cancer." It's merchant-of-doubt stuff.
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Replying to @DavidOAtkins @tristin69
No, it’s the opposite. “Saying we need more science is an anti-vaxx trick” is actually an “anti-anyone questioning-anything-Big Pharma-says” trick. But people have memorized the line very well.

Apr 24, 2020 · 11:51 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @tristin69
Vaccines are not some big profit drug pushed by big pharma. The science around vaccines is really, really, really well-established. It's absolutely no different from oil companies saying we just need more climate research because you just can't trust those darned scientists.
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Bad analogy. We can’t trust climate scientists when they’re paid for by Big Oil, nor should we trust vaccine science when it’s all paid for by Big Pharma. But let’s stop now. We have bigger opponents to deal with than each other.
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