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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 3 Jun 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Cephaloplod

    Yes! This! Loss of trust is a huge driver of the spread of medical misinformation and pseudoscience.https://twitter.com/ArchyToothless/status/1135574324784427008 …

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    Cephaloplod @ArchyToothless
    Replying to @gorskon
    They also fail to understand that the antivaxers don't see doctors as "legitimate" sources of information but rather a part of a corrupted profession that they are correcting through their "research." Logical arguments aren't persuasive to such a belief system.
    9:23 AM - 3 Jun 2019
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      2. Christopher Johnson‏ @ChrisJohnsonMD 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @gorskon @doritmi

        Yes, sort of. It's also well known, though, that anti-vaxers (as one example) typically have multiple conspiracy theories and thus are unlikely to have had much trust in scientific experts of any sort to lose in the first place. #deathofexpertise

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @ChrisJohnsonMD @doritmi

        Yes and no. Those multiple conspiracy theories don't usually arise until trust has started to decline.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Daniel Goldstein‏ @DrDan_Biotech 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        And how do we help the antivax folks?? We take no collective responsibility for medicine’s part in generating the current opioid crisis- claiming we just listened to pharmaceutical companies. Did anyone actually think we had non-addictive opiates? 1/2

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Daniel Goldstein‏ @DrDan_Biotech 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @DrDan_Biotech @gorskon

        We tell the public we were just a bunch of suckers and pansies to pharma... what do you expect them to think of us. Then we cut off patients cold turkey when fentanyl analogs are on the streets... ⚰️ ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️

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      1. Bob Blaskiewicz‏ @rjblaskiewicz 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @gorskon @crackedscience

        And all the problems.

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      2. Jonathan Howard‏ @JHowardBrainMD 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Antivaxxers are often portrayed as extremely gullible. And I guess those who embrace magic detox supplements are to a degree. But really they suffer from pathological doubt: everyone is lying to them and everyone has an ulterior motive.

        2 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Jun 2019
        Replying to @JHowardBrainMD

        It's more selective doubt. They trust and lionize antivaxers like RFK Jr. and Andrew Wakefield, while exhibiting extreme suspicion of legitimate medical authority.

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