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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Haider Warraich

      Dude, where have you been? @stevennovella, @HHSkepDoc, I, and so many others have been warning about quackery, statin and antivax fear mongering, and cancer quackery for decades. Our blog, @ScienceBasedMed, is 11 years old. My personal blog is 14 years old. 1/https://twitter.com/haiderwarraich/status/1074476211580088322 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Haider Warraich @haiderwarraich
      Out Now: My Op Ed in @nytimes: #FakeNews threatens democracy but **fake medical news** threatens our lives. Are physicians and researchers ready to fight back? Is Silicon Valley liable? Featuring research from @cpgYALE @VPplenarysesh & others https://nyti.ms/2GkFLeN 
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

      I mean, I'm happy someone like @haiderwarraich for an op-ed about fake medical news, quackery, and antivax published in @nytimes, but the implication that no one in science is trying to combat this misinformation is quite simply not true. 2/

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

      In fact, there's a robust group of physicians, scientists, and science advocates out there doing what you think should be done. 3/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

      The problem is that there are too few of us, and the mainstream media don't pay much attention to us. 4/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

      Another problem is that speaking out against quackery and antivax has unpleasant and even potentially dangerous consequences. For instance, many of us have been harassed online and doxxed. 5/

      7:01 PM - 17 Dec 2018
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

          I personally have had antivaxers try to get me fired from my job and a cancer quack harass my cancer center director and dept. chair to try to get them to pressure me to shut up. Just this fall, an antivaxer threatened to sue me and my university over a blog post. 6/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

          Several of my friends have been sued for libel for calling out quackery. I've had numerous legal threats over the years and now one actual lawsuit. 7/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

          It's particularly bad for women or PoCs who speak out, because they get misogyny and racism, respectively, in their harassment by quacks. Some of us even get death threats. 8/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2018

          So, @haiderwarraich, if you want to know why more scientists and doctors don't fight this nonsense, just realize that even science education efforts, when they contradict quacks, are not without risk and possible painful consequences. 9/9

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