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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    2. Jonathan Jarry‏Verified account @crackedscience 28 Oct 2019
      Replying to @VPrasadMDMPH

      Weighing in on this debate: 1) Tackling pseudoscience properly (not in a drive-by fashion) can teach critical thinking skills and basic scientific concepts to a public that desperately needs it.

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 28 Oct 2019
      Replying to @crackedscience @VPrasadMDMPH

      Indeed. I've learned to read the medical literature much more critically by taking on alternative medicine claims.

      1 reply 3 retweets 31 likes
    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 28 Oct 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @crackedscience @VPrasadMDMPH

      Dr. Prasad is also incorrect that there is "no evidence." Often there are many studies of various alternative medicine modalities that are touted as positive and superficially appear positive. You have to dig down deep into the methods and analyses to figure out why they are not.

      2 replies 4 retweets 34 likes
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 28 Oct 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @crackedscience @VPrasadMDMPH

      Examples include acupuncture (of course), any number of supplements and other treatments, and, yes, even homeopathy.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 28 Oct 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @crackedscience @VPrasadMDMPH

      I always think that people who present debunking pseudoscience as trivial have rarely tried, or looked into the astonishing prevalence and detrimental effect these modalities can have

      7:35 PM - 28 Oct 2019
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        1. NIH Llamas‏ @NIH_LLAMAS 28 Oct 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @gorskon and

          Prasad is both wrong in thinking it's easy, and also implying a sort of puritanical belief that something's being easy makes it shameful.

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        2. Toni Hinton  🏳️‍🌈  🗽  🌊 🗳‏ @epukane 28 Oct 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @gorskon and

          As a layperson, I think Dr. Prasad also underestimates the value of “flooding the zone” with correct information.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Oct 2019
          Replying to @epukane @GidMK and

          Yes, that's the information deficit model, which posits that people believe misinformation because of a lack of access to correct information and science and this misinformation can be countered work good inform.

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        2. 1HappyMama - Renae‏ @rtiggerm 30 Oct 2019

          Hey @The_Measles Be great if you post updates on your location from time to time so I can avoid you

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        2. PaedsHaemDoc‏ @dr_barrett Mar 18
          Replying to @GidMK @gorskon and

          Eg:Clare Craig claims FPR 57% in study she doesn’t give a proper reference to-took an hour to find what she probably is talking about , another minute to calculate the FPR as 0.8% -figure out she actually calculated the PPV lifetime to understand how people think she is crediblepic.twitter.com/xRTXfnLgv0

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        3. PaedsHaemDoc‏ @dr_barrett Mar 18
          Replying to @dr_barrett @GidMK and

          That’s preview to a coming debunk ... Brandolini s law always applies - hard to understand and debunk that which is fundamentally a flight of illogical ideashttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law …

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        1. Aluminum Shots (Vaccines) for Infants is Evil!‏ @BGLTHMND 28 Oct 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @gorskon and

          Hey! Can you help me design a study to test this hypothesis? Increased use of Aluminum containing vaccines is associated with increased mitochondrial dysfunction in children.

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