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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 25 May 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Noah Smith  🐇

    Medicine too. I've said it many times. The term "Western medicine" is racist. It assumes that the "West" is far more rational and scientific than elsewhere, mainly those places with dark- or yellow-skinned people.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1132339919987269633 …

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    Noah Smith  🐇Verified account @Noahpinion
    I'm sorry, but the notion that the scientific method is some sort of inherently Western thing is bonkers. There is great science being done all over the world. It's not 1650 or whatever. How do people actually believe stuff like that?
    10:49 AM - 25 May 2019
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 May 2019

        The funny thing is that it is often proponents of traditional Chinese medicine who use the term "Western medicine" to contrast standard science-based medicine from their favored woo.

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

        David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Sci-isms

        See what I mean?https://twitter.com/MercuryTimes/status/1132347923138793473 …

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        Sci-isms @MercuryTimes
        Replying to @gorskon
        Western medicine owns "pathogen based illness", and surgery. The rest of human disease has been a Western Medicine failure Now? They want market protection from placebos? With their big share of our household income, let them earn it with results that survive in a free market.
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      2. Mermit‏ @mermitling 25 May 2019

        Are you saying there are no scientists or people doing scientific medicine in India or China or Japan?

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      2. Sci-isms‏ @MercuryTimes 25 May 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Western medicine owns "pathogen based illness", and surgery. The rest of human disease has been a Western Medicine failure Now? They want market protection from placebos? With their big share of our household income, let them earn it with results that survive in a free market.

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      3. Mermit‏ @mermitling 25 May 2019
        Replying to @MercuryTimes @gorskon

        Remind me, was it ancient wisdom or the scientific method that discovered the relationship between pelagra and niacin deficiency? Between goiters and iodine deficiency? Scurvy and bit C deficiency?

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      2. Sci-isms‏ @MercuryTimes 25 May 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        And, wasn't one of your early published scientific papers on a medicine based on a common tea made of periwinkle flowers? Periwinkle Flower tea? Hmmm. Maybe those herbalist aren't 100% wrong?

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      3. Sci-isms‏ @MercuryTimes 25 May 2019
        Replying to @MercuryTimes @gorskon

        Oh, yes it was. Oh didn't know it. As it was similar to aspirin having its roots in willow bark tea. Give me a moment...

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      2. SIT, WAIT & CONTEMPLATE‏ @HardToStaySane 25 May 2019
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        I Don't see any elements of racism in "wester medicine". In China, The term refers to medical system origined from the western hemisphere, That's all. Similar terms include western clothes 西裝,western cuisine 西餐,etc.. No implication of scienced-based or advanced etc.

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      3. SIT, WAIT & CONTEMPLATE‏ @HardToStaySane 25 May 2019
        Replying to @HardToStaySane @gorskon

        Cultural awareness or sensitivity is good, but Too much political correctness, Too much self-censorship, is Not healthy too. "If in doubt, ask", "make no assumptions".

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