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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.

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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Jane Orient, MD

    Silly doctor. Boiled down to its essence, what is a scientific theory but the current best consensus about a specific natural phenomenon (e.g., the theory of evolution, germ theory, the theory of relativity, etc.)? 1/https://twitter.com/jorient/status/1107035447601954816 …

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    Jane Orient, MD @jorient
    Replying to @gorskon @Jeanthejust and 2 others
    Consensus is the enemy of science. Particularly a fake consensus, What about the consensus on Ptolemy, or spontaneous generation, or bad air as the cause of malaria, etc.
    3:08 PM - 16 Mar 2019
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

        As for the examples you give, no one ever said the scientific consensus can't be questioned. However, scientists won't take your challenge to the consensus seriously if you can't back it up with compelling evidence. Nor should they. 2/

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

        Overthrowing or substantively modifying a scientific consensus requires evidence that conclusively shows that the existing paradigm is incomplete or in error. Just questioning because you don't like scientific conclusions ain't gonna cut it. 3/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/on-the-right-to-challenge-a-medical-or-scientific-consensus/ …

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      4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

        Indeed, all of those old consensuses, now overthrown, were changed through the scientific process and evidence. 4/

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      5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

        Just because a current scientific consensus might be radically altered in the future due to new evidence doesn’t mean that "consensus is the death of science." That's just an excuse cranks use to reject science they don't like without having to back it up with evidence. 5/

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      6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

        And, of course, scientific consensus is more often evolutionary than revolutionary, with each new theory taking into account the old theory; e.g., how relativity collapses into Newtonian physics at velocities that are a small fraction of the speed of light. 6/

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      7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 16 Mar 2019

        It saddens me to see someone like @jorient post such nonsense about science. MDs need to have a better understanding of the nature of science. Hers is poor. 7/7

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      1. Stacy Marie‏ @stacy_rie 16 Mar 2019
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        Don’t underestimate the Max Planck method through which science advances : one funeral at a time. Which I’d guess to be far more common than a scientific revolution.

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