Alan Plotzker, MD

Medical specialties as Pokémon. A 🧵. 1st gen (sorry @joshmcgoo) Emergency Medicine—Ditto Changes into basically every other specialty depending on the situation. May not get all the details perfect, but gets the job done

@Agent_Mondello @agraybee That is quite literally the exact opposite of what happened. They were forced not to draw any conclusions about the obstruction case they laid out the merits of in extensive detail

@AlanPlotzker @agraybee They were forced to make an obstruction case regardless of merits.

My favorite Robert Mueller story was when he released a comprehensive report concluding that Russia helped Trump win the election but Bill Barr said "nuh uh" and the media used that as proof the libs were hysterical.

@APColemanIII @highbrow_nobrow @jathorpmfm He has not. RFK doesn’t research shit. He never has. He listens to batshit antivaxxers an repeats their batshittery

@highbrow_nobrow @jathorpmfm Just saying “false” doesn’t make it so. I’m going out on a limb and guessing that RFK has done vastly more research and spent much more time looking into it than you ever have or ever will. Do better.

RFK Jr: The polio vaccine “killed many, many more people” than polio ever did. Fact-check: False. (2023)

@PixelMimicGD @ZitoSalena @outlookninsight @atrupar Saying you need an ID to give birth is moronic. You do not

@AlanPlotzker @ZitoSalena @outlookninsight @atrupar So you are retarded and are just playing semantics. Being purposefully obtuse to make a point just shows how dishonest you are.

Sen. Dave McCormick: "You have to have ID to have a child"

@OccupiedW2583 @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk Yes, it’s unequivocal that he was far right. That’s not even vaguely a debatable point. You’re just an imbecile

@AlanPlotzker @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk “Unequivocally” They just let you type words on the net now. They can be any words at all! Incredible.

He’s such a liar

@avaritia_trades @ReichlinMelnick Time has not vindicated nativists once in American history. On the country, history shows them to be the bigoted dopes they were

@AlanPlotzker @ReichlinMelnick They weren't wrong about the hart celler act at all. They weren't wrong about the evils of hyphenated Americans, which Teddy Roosevelt wrote and spoke about often in the early 1900s. Time has vindicated their criticisms.

This stuff is basically indistinguishable from nativist propaganda 100-150 years ago against the Irish, the Italians, and the Chinese. And history should remind us that there were massacres and pogroms of Chinese immigrants in the 1880s fuels by some of this rhetoric.

@Burki677 Yep

If you ever come up against a person who denies viruses or germ theory, just ask them this question and it’ll stump them. Every. Single. Time.

@caliphofgod @MichaelRigg860 @AlastairMcA30 Those are still vaccines

@AlanPlotzker @MichaelRigg860 @AlastairMcA30 key word... traditional... but not anymore... eh?

You absolutely need the meningitis vaccine(s). Bacterial Meningitis has an INCREDIBLY high mortality and morbidity rate. The vaccines are very safe and very protective. Honestly, imagine using your time on earth to endanger children? Astonishing.

@jumpjettwit @ABridgen “Strange that people want a way to prevent a horrific, potentially deadly disease after an outbreak of that disease” Aseptic meningitis is generally a headache/neck pain that is self limited Bacterial meningitis is a severe, extremely dangerous infection. Hope this help 👍🏻

@ABridgen Strange isn't it that the first thing that thousands of young people want after a serious outbreak, to feel protected, is the vaccination?

The risk of aseptic Meningitis after the MMR vaccine. The link is to the full scientific paper. It was published in the Lancet in 1993. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@ZitoSalena @outlookninsight @atrupar So you don’t need an ID to give birth, then

@outlookninsight @atrupar You still receive emergency medical care to deliver your baby but I suspect you already knew that

@OccupiedW2583 @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk He was far right, yes. Unequivocally so But that’s not the data being referenced

@AlanPlotzker @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk “Data” that the Hortmann assassin was MAGA “Data”

@caliphofgod @ratcli39423 @AlastairMcA30 Those are all ways of exposing your immune system to a pathogen (or relevant part of it) in order to develop adaptive immunity without actually getting the thing you’re aiming to prevent/ameliorate. That’s the core concept of what a vaccine is, and has been for ages

@ratcli39423 @AlastairMcA30 I suppose you just accept the definition of what is a vaccine... just changing... to include everything from viral bodies... to bacterial poisons, to bacterial parts, or whole dead bacterial bodies... and now.. MRNA injections as all being the same thing... eh?

@caliphofgod @MichaelRigg860 @AlastairMcA30 That’s…exactly what traditional vaccines are. A killed/weakened pathogen or a relevant part of it that is used to develop adaptive immunity If this is something you didn’t know, you should consider not blathering about topics that you don’t understand the most basic aspects of

@MichaelRigg860 @AlastairMcA30 WELL apparently.. injecting you with dead of mostly dead bacteria is considered a vaccine ... so there ya go.. enjoy your injections...

@noreply369 @dilanesper “Trans-identified male” is a transphobe term that does not appear in scientific literature at all. It is not correct. The accepted and widely used terms in scientific and medical literature are trans man and trans woman. You aren’t clarifying anything, just being a dickhead

For me, it reduces confusion to use correct pronouns. "Trans-identified male/female” adds to the discussion while clearly delineating the point of contention. Your way: “Why won’t you let her into the women’s track meet?" My way: “He is a trans-identified male and belongs in the men’s division.” See?

If I do a thread about a trans woman and call her "her", and you come in my thread and "correct" me and say "you mean him", I'm probably going to block you. Beyond expressing prejudice, you are being immature and uninteresting. It adds nothing to go into threads and say that.

@JamesAButters1 @AlexLDeLuca 1. We are less than 3 months into 2026 and already at 11 2. Barack Obama was not, in fact, president for 9 years

83 Immigrant detainees died in ICE custody from fiscal year (FY) 2008 through 2016 ( Under Obama ) This figure comes from an analysis of official ICE data by the Cato Institute (a nonpartisan public policy research organization), which compiled annual death counts directly from ICE reports and cross-referenced them with admission statistics. The breakdown by fiscal year (October 1–September 30) FY 2008: 11 deaths FY 2009: 14 deaths FY 2010: 8 deaths FY 2011: 10 deaths FY 2012: 8 deaths FY 2013: 9 deaths FY 2014: 6 deaths FY 2015: 7 deaths FY 2016: 10 deaths Total: 83

Breaking: A Mexican teenager has died while in ICE custody in South Florida. He appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since Trump took office last year. miaminewtimes.com/news/mexican-t…

@OccupiedW2583 @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk Data, without scare quotes, which has already been presented to you and remains unrefuted, as you are just stomping and shouting about your feels

@AlanPlotzker @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk “Data”

@OccupiedW2583 @zumodric013 @easternair355 @elonmusk “I don’t believe in data when I have very important FEELS” would have been shorter and more to the point. The data overwhelmingly says you’re wrong, because you’re extremely wrong

@zumodric013 @AlanPlotzker @easternair355 @elonmusk I don’t waste my time finding “sources” for such obvious facts. If you need proof for such a basic truth, you’re too delusional to accept whatever facts I present. You’re in a cult bubble.

@Unsplarfable @OccupiedW2583 @easternair355 @elonmusk You have to remember that MAGA are dumb as fuck. They think Nazis were left wing, that immigrants commit lots of crime, that left wing political violence is more common than right, and that COVID deaths were a big conspiracy. They are extremely stupid people

@OccupiedW2583 @AlanPlotzker @easternair355 @elonmusk you see a guy shoot lawmakers, their spouses, children, down to their pets - and your read is that was done to 'clear the way'

@Unsplarfable @OccupiedW2583 @easternair355 @elonmusk It’s like when David Duke said he was pro-Hillary

@OccupiedW2583 @AlanPlotzker @easternair355 @elonmusk yeah hard to say whether a guy who toured the world giving anti-gay sermons & is CEO of his own ultraconservative evangelical missionary org is at all right wing when all we have to go on is all of the above & the politically motivated killing spree he committed hmm a real puzzle