"I generally find criticism of alt med ideas too simple & not worth my time."
That's nice. Arrogant much?
Leave it to us plebian skeptics to deal with this sort of nonsense. Don't bother to sully yourself. No, really. Don't bother your pretty little head. We've got this.
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Replying to @gorskon @crackedscience
He says that likely because 1. He doesn’t grasp the complex nature of the problem or 2. He doesn’t have the knowledge base to discuss these ideas or 3. He is intellectually lazy and ignorant of the fact that skills needed for criticism of alt med apply globally in medicine.
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I mean, many view the alt med industry as one of the greatest current threats to public health, deserving MORE time and resources to combat, but whatever.
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Yes (obviously I agree given how much time I spend on my blog hobby), but all too many doctors take the attitude that it's somehow not much of a threat and that dealing with it is somehow beneath them.
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I agree. To ignore the harmful role that alt med plays in fostering distrust in public health and spreading misinformation is naive at best. Complicit at worst.
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Also, it's impossible not to notice how alternative medicine has infiltrated medicine itself in the form of "integrative medicine," thus corrupting the scientific basis of medical treatment.
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And previously reliable resources, such as
@ClevelandClinic and@MayoClinic have started touting this nonsense. We keep telling the public to consult reliable sources, but where did they go? How is the public to identify this pseudoscience?2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
They can start with Science-Based Medicine or Respectful Insolence. 
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I don’t know and I probably never will.
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