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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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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Alieta Eck, MD

      No, to say that @AAPSonline is wrong about nearly everything is a simple, reasonable observation based on its positions, and, in particular, the dubious ideologically motivated arguments, misinformation, and bad science it uses to support those positions. 1/https://twitter.com/AlietaEck/status/1121408212987777024 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Alieta Eck, MD @AlietaEck
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle @AAPSonline
      I know what you think about the vaccine issue. But to say AAPS is wrong on everything is a cheap shot. We oppose the corporate and government takeover of medicine because this leads to substandard patient care. I must assume you champion them.
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

      Let's go way, way back to 10+ years ago, to the second time I ever wrote able @AAPSonline. There's a reason (many reasons, actually) why I said that for this group ideology trumps science-based medicine. 2/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-journal-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-ideology-trumps-science-based-medicine/ …

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

      Basically, @AAPSonline presents an Ayn Randian vision of doctors as supermen and women whose clinical judgment should be unfettered by trivial things like evidence-based guidelines, government oversight, etc. 3/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

      The @AAPSonline vision of the perfect doctor, it seems, is Dr. Thomas Hendricks from "Atlas Shrugged," a guy who withholds his genius from lesser men because he seems them undeserving. 4/https://www.alternet.org/2016/05/ayn-rands-demented-mind-understood-through-atlas-shrugged/ …

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

      The view seems to be that @AAPSonline doctors are brave mavericks who use their unfettered genius in service of their patients, and that the rest of us are sheep. 5/

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Unfortunately, the maverickiness of @AAPSonline leads it to be "vaccine choice" (in reality antivax masquerading as "choice"). 6/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Even worse, @AAPSonline even supported a child killer Akan Yurko with the lie that shaken baby syndrome is a misdiagnosis for vaccine injury. 7/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-antivaccine-lie-that-just-wont-die-shaken-baby-syndrome-is-really-due-to-vaccine-injury/ …

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          And lest @AlietaEck claim that the antivax nonsense of @AAPSonline is old news, I note that its journal JPANDS published Brian Hooker’s bogus "reanalysis" that falsely found a link between MMR and autism in African-American boys...in December. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/12/12/brian-hookers-antivaccine-pseudoscience-has-risen-from-the-dead-to-threaten-children-again/ …

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          That same maverickiness also leads @AAPSonline to publish risibly, execrably bad science claiming that abortion causes breast cancer. 9/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abortion-and-breast-cancer-the-manufactroversy-that-wont-die/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          I'm not even counting other @AAPSonline pseudoscience, like denying the conclusions of climate science that the earth is warming due to CO2 caused by human activity. 10/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hostility-towards-scientific-consensus-a-red-flag-identifying-a-crank-or-quack/ …

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          The @AAPSonline also parrots anti-immigrant misinformation, such as the claim that immigrants bring and spread disease. No wonder @realDonaldTrump likes them! 11/

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Indeed, Tom Price, Trump's first @HHSGov secretary, was an @AAPSonline member. 12/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/11/30/the-new-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-is-a-member-of-a-fringe-medical-organization-heres-what-that-means/ …

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Oh, and at that time @AAPSonline was still laying down cringeworthy antivaccine pseudoscience. 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/12/22/the-crank-medical-organization-to-which-hhs-nominee-dr-tom-price-belongs-lays-down-a-heaping-helping-of-antivaccine-pseudoscience/ …

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Oh, and did I mention how @AAPSonline published claims that vaccines are associated with sudden infant syndrome? It's not. 14/ http://jpands.org/hacienda/article25.html …

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        11. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Indeed, if anything at all, vaccines are protective against SIDS. Certainly, we can say with confidence that at least vaccination is NOT associated with increased risk of SIDS. 15/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/06/06/quoth-vox-day-vaccines-are-killing-babies/ …

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        12. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          But @AAPSonline is a true example of crank magnetism (hat tip to @MarkHoofnagle). Not only does it embrace pseudoscience, antivaccine nonsense, and quackery, but it claims that Medicare and Medicaid are unconstitutional, while rejecting evidence-based guidelines. 16/

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        13. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          Dr. Eck says @AAPSonline is against the "corporatization" of medicine, but at the same time advocates a position claiming that the free market will fix what ails medicine. Inconsistent, much? 17/

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        14. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          All of this is why I don't think it unreasonable to conclude that @AAPSonline is wrong about almost everything. 18/18

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        15. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Apr 2019

          David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Mark Hoofnagle

          Crap! I forgot to mention that @AAPSonline has promoted HIV/AIDS denialism! 18a/18https://twitter.com/markhoofnagle/status/1121412528834322432 …

          David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

          Mark Hoofnagle @MarkHoofnagle
          Replying to @AlietaEck @gorskon @AAPSonline
          Except for how they’re wrong on everything. Associating with HIV/AIDS denying, antivax, abortion/cancer linking bunch of liars suggests major deficiency in professional judgment. AAPS is so fringe a Trump appointee had to distance himself as a member. And he was a crook!
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