I do so love it when someone tells me to "read a basic #textbook" in a field where I've not only read basic textbooks, but some advanced ones as well—and as it happens, that I'm getting paid to work on *right now*. #Immunology, in this case, but it's a widespread phenomenon.
Well no, I don't love it, but it does at least provide some brief amusement. Link, for the curious: https://thinktankredux.quora.com/Im-still-going-to-try-to-keep-from-posting-about-politics-in-general-but-Ill-make-an-exception-for-matters-of-medicin?comment_id=156316551&comment_type=3
@drdrowland Yeah. Possibly a bot or paid troll rather than just a garden-variety jackass. Quora these days makes it really hard to report users, but (I think) you can still report specific posts easily enough. Of course, who wants to go down the list of hundreds of bullshit posts reporting each one?
I sure wish quora would stop platforming disinformation agents
Funny, in a discouraging way. Please try to soldier on, despite this terrible wound.
If I were to have my expertise challenged by someone whose achievement level is "studied at University of California Santa Barbara", I think I would just retreat into the woods and live as a recluse. And if the antivax challenger actually studied something specific, or was graduated by a college, or lived in a college town in Oregon, I think I would burn my Mickey Mouse Club card in shame.
@medigoth
I tried and failed to find the "report user" button
Their Quora account seems designed specifically to damage public health with vaccine disinformation