If you know anything about Stickland, you probably know that he loves guns, loves to hear himself talk and has some medically dubious views about vaccines. All three of those qualities are on display in Stickland's latest dust-up.
Our story starts, as any good Twitter story does, with Stickland replying to a tweet in which he is not tagged. This one in particular comes from Dr. Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and one of the United States' best advocates for vaccines.
Stickland, of course, latches onto a celebration of recent fundraising to equate promoting vaccination with "witchcraft."
Somehow, things go downhill from there. Another doctor, not Dr. Hotez, jumps into the thread and calls Stickland an anti-vaxer. Stickland, who, again, has just called vaccines witchcraft, insists that he is no such thing.Thanks for pointing out again how enriching witchcraft can be. Truly breathtaking how much money big pharma has to throw around.
— Jonathan Stickland (@RepStickland) September 11, 2019
The soon-to-be erstwhile state representative then explains that he, a high school dropout, knows better about when to vaccinate his kids than the medical experts.I’m not an antivaxer.
— Jonathan Stickland (@RepStickland) September 11, 2019
We have made the decision to administer certain vaccines to our children, at our desired pace/schedule. I won't let you bully me into making our private medical decisions public. Privacy matters and you big pharma shills have a long history of hateful bullying.
— Jonathan Stickland (@RepStickland) September 11, 2019
There's some back and forth between Stickland and Dr. Gorski about who's bullying whom, and then Stickland gets to what he's best at, calling the doctor a "sissy," before going for a playground insult.
Whatever you say Dr. Gayski!
— Jonathan Stickland (@RepStickland) September 11, 2019
This all went down Wednesday. Stickland has still not had the good sense to delete. Good for content's sake, at least.