I have to on @TheAtlantic a decade ago, when it started becoming credulous about medical pseudoscience in the form of "integrative medicine" or CAM. 1/ https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1131514430171373568 …
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For instance, in 2011
@TheAtlHealth published an article about the "triumph" of New Age medicine. The whole piece was a credulous approving mess about the infiltration of quackery into medicine. 2/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/06/15/the-triumph-of-new-age-medicine-the-atla/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
This is not just a one-off, but definitely a trend. For instance, here's a deconstruction of another article in
@TheAtlantic promoting quackery and pseudoscience. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/07/06/the-triumph-of-new-age-medicine-part-deux-courtesy-of-the-atlantic/ …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Then there was the time
@TheAtlantic published a painfully bad article rust regurgitated the spin of advocates of chelation therapy over an expensive and basically negative clinical trial. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/09/19/apologetics-for-chelation-therapy-in-the-atlantic/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
When criticized for promoting quackery, the quacks double down. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/06/30/one-last-look-at-the-atlantics-pro-cam/ …
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Of course, during the height of the H1N1 pandemic nearly 10 years ago,
@TheAtlantic published a truly execrable article on Cochrane's Tom Jefferson, a man who takes methodolatry about the flu vaccine straight to the edge of antivax territory. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2009/10/26/when-methodolatry-strikes-over-h1n1-influenza/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
So,
@TheAtlantic and@TheAtlHealth have a decade-long history of a blind spot for pseudoscience and pseudomedicine. The H1N1 article in particular from 2009 led me to let my subscription lapse. 7/1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread
If you're surprised that @TheAtlantic is susceptible to bad science,
pseudoscience, and even outright quackery, you just haven't been paying attention the last decade or so. It's not bad most of the time, but it's bad often enough—too often, actually. 8/8
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Replying to @gorskon @TheAtlantic
A friend of mine keeps gift subscribing me the Atlantic every year. It goes straight into the trash. I'm going to have to work up the nerve to tell him to stop giving it to me.
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