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Oh good. @sciencefeedback has a fact check on that measles has longterm benefits nonsense:
In fact, it can cause longterm health problems eg hearing loss and neurological damage.
@hildabast @sciencefeedback The #MAGA cult members in #Texas who believe there are long term *benefits* from the #measles have one thing in common with the people who preferred #ivermectin or injecting bleach to getting the #mRNA #vaccine during the #COVID pandemic, and probably also those in Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple #cult who drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in Jonestown, Guyana. They are/were #PoorlyEducated.
#Resist and support high-quality #PublicEducation.
@ChemicalEyeGuy just one tiny pushback: "during the COVID pandemic" is still now.
Just because it's not politically defined as a state of emergency, doesn't change the facts of transmission or prevalence.
If that seems sus, consider HIV - definitely still a pandemic, but in most of the world it's not politically an emergency.
Also while some people are poorly educated, some have been actively mis-educated and disinformed.
in that's really quite nice to hear! 
rambly:
Oh how we good faith actors wish that all career scientists were in your boat, working in good faith and open to pushback!
It's easy for you and I to criticize bad faith scientists, but their ability to attain positions of power seems to correlate more with their ambition than with their contributions to advancing understanding reality.
the data falsification plague and "scientists" who spout misinformation from behind credentials (whether talking heads or op-eds or blogs or social media posts) are easy examples, so is the GBD