Sure there's a lot of unsubstantiated stuff in this. BS and worse, i.e. harmful. Yet I find it interesting: How ancient remedies are yielding cutting-edge cures, @NatGeoMag - https://on.natgeo.com/2zWdFki ht @gorskon
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Except that ancient remedies aren't yielding cutting edge cures.
@NatGeo is just plain full of crap and publishing TCM propaganda, not science.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/01/07/traditional-chinese-medicine-is-science/ …3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes -
Again, some modern medical Rx is unsupported (see: Twitter of Dr. Vinay Prasad) and some-but-not-all ancient Rx, which may or may not work, is not understood.
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Whataboutism? Really?
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you're getting too abstract!
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Replying to @ESchattner @gorskon and
David C. Norris, MD 😷N95 Retweeted David C. Norris, MD 😷N95
Got your back here, Elaine! That accusation of ‘whataboutism’ is simply crass.https://twitter.com/davidcnorrismd/status/1061010275044741120 …
David C. Norris, MD 😷N95 added,
David C. Norris, MD 😷N95 @davidcnorrismdReplying to @AshaniTW @NCIDirector @ASCOWhen nearly 10 out of 10 oncology#dosefinding methodologists believe in 1-size-fits-all dose finding
, all this CAM-bashing looks unseemly. By far the greater opportunity is to see CAM as a mirror of our own failings. Matthew 7:3. #DoseIndividualization https://twitter.com/davidcnorrismd/status/896232412262260736 …2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @davidcnorrismd @ESchattner and
Crass or not, it's not inaccurate. Instead of rebutting my argument about TCM's lack of evidence, she countered, "What about conventional medicine's lack of evidence?" That's the very DEFINITION of whataboutism. I hadn't planned on saying any more, but you tweaked me.
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Replying to @gorskon @davidcnorrismd and
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted David C. Norris, MD 😷N95
In fact, YOUR subtweet is an excellent example of whataboutism.https://twitter.com/davidcnorrismd/status/1061010275044741120 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
David C. Norris, MD 😷N95 @davidcnorrismdReplying to @AshaniTW @NCIDirector @ASCOWhen nearly 10 out of 10 oncology#dosefinding methodologists believe in 1-size-fits-all dose finding
, all this CAM-bashing looks unseemly. By far the greater opportunity is to see CAM as a mirror of our own failings. Matthew 7:3. #DoseIndividualization https://twitter.com/davidcnorrismd/status/896232412262260736 …3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @ESchattner and
Generally, the only non-bot follows I block on Twitter are those by the woo crowd—precisely out of concern they’ll read such tweets uncritically, and take them as encouragement. You may have more in common with them than you want to think, David, in light of your own misreading!
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Replying to @davidcnorrismd @gorskon and
Here’s a bit of background on
#whataboutism, FYI, which might help you employ the term precisely and judiciously. A crucial concept which we ought not dilute by careless misuse! (Glad to engage and/or demolish you whenever, outside of Elaine’s mentions ;) https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism …2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
I have been aware of the history of the term for decades, as most skeptics are. My use of it was entirely consistent with its definition: pointing out a problem with one's opponent's position in order to avoid engaging his criticism of yours.
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