BREAKING: Respected scientists announce a mass exodus from Twitter after Republican billionaire Elon Musk joins an anti-vax pile-on against vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, claiming that "he's afraid of public debate because he knows he's wrong."
It all started when infamous podcaster Joe Rogan publicly challenged Hotez to a debate on vaccines. Hotez demurred but the situation quickly spiraled out of control as MAGA lunatics attacked and smeared him.
The saga culminated in far-right freaks approaching Hotez to harass him at his house, demonstrating how terrifyingly quickly Twitter encounters can turn into real life dangers.
During the flood of attacks and smears against Hotez, the alway-desperate-for-attention Musk jumped in and absurdly insisted that the researcher was "afraid of public debate" and "wrong."
Of course, Hotez is neither of those things. He said that he would go on Rogan's show but would not debate RFK Jr.. He simply knows that debating conspiracy theorists does nothing but strengthen and embolden them.
In response to the shameful incident, Michael Mina, the chief science officer at eMed and immunologist, stated that Twitter is "no longer a tool that's accelerating science. On the contrary." He is an avid Twitter user but says that he will likely leave in the next few months due to the platform's deterioration.
Mina said that Twitter is now "another big noisy mess."
Numerous other scientists and medical researchers have also told Axios that they are finding Twitter less useful by the day and find it all very "scary." The rise of anti-vax rhetoric is convincing more and more of them to finally jump ship.
At this rate, soon the only people left on Twitter will be anti-science maniacs.
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Elon is a billionaire because he lies, cheats, and steals. That’s how billionaires are made.
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Folks on, or who have children on the autism spectrum want to believe that autism comes from a vaccine. It doesn't.
It is genetic.
The Antivax movement started from a lie. When people lie, especially those with platforms, its hard to quash the lie.
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Mission accomplished?
$44bn is a bargain price to eradicate truth from discourse.
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