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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 21 Jun 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Austin Chiang, MD MPH

    Gonna add something to what @CaulfieldTim said in the article: “...there has been too much tolerance of pseudoscience from many in the health care community. An initiative like this can help to build momentum that may nudge more in the direction of a science-informed approach.”https://twitter.com/AustinChiangMD/status/1142080357497475078 …

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    Austin Chiang, MD MPH @AustinChiangMD
    Reposting with link https://onezero.medium.com/doctors-are-braving-social-media-to-battle-medical-misinformation-c0ae9d759013 … Thanks @ozm @Medium @lemonsand again, featuring many angles from @DrAnjaliMahto @CaulfieldTim @gorskon @DrJenGunter @ZDoggMD pic.twitter.com/qX7YmNIZY9
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        I agree. It's true that doctors have been far too tolerant of quackery and pseudoscience. Indeed, 11 years ago, @drval coined a term for most doctors: "Shruggie." Basically, most doctors recognize quackery, but shrug and say little or nothing. 2/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-shruggie-awakening/ …

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        However, more insidious and dangerous is the way doctors have been embracing quackery and pseudoscience in the form of "complementary and alternative medicine" and "integrative medicine." 3/

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      4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        For example, consider homeopathy. It's what I like to call The One Quackery To Rule Them All because its principles break the laws of physics and chemistry. Most homeopathic remedies are so dilute that not a molecule remains. 4/

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      5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        You'd like to think that every doctor would shun homeopathy as the pseudoscience and quackery that it us. You'd be wrong. There is homeopathy offered in academic medical centers. 5/

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      6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        For example, @ClevelandClinic offers homeopathy and has sold homeopathic "detox" kits. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/01/18/the-ceo-of-the-cleveland-clinic-defends-its-quackademic-medicine/ …

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      7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        That's not all @ClevelandClinic offers. It also offers craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and acupuncture to children. It even offers the “energy medicine” quackery that is “therapeutic touch” to babies. 7/

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      8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        That's not all, though. In 2014, @ClevelandClinic hired Dr. Mark Hyman to start a functional medicine clinic. 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/03/01/disruptive-functional-medicine-at-the-cleveland-clinic-disrupting-medicine-by-mixing-quackery-with-it/ …

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      9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Functional medicine is a "specialty" involving testing every lab value under the sun and then getting to correct them all, while also embracing quackery, including homeopathy. 9/

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      10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Functional medicine docs basically make it up as they go along. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/04/18/the-quackery-of-so-called-functional-medicine-making-it-up-as-you-go-along/ …

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      11. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Not coincidentally, Dr. Hyman is antivax. He even wrote the foreword to @RobertKennedyJr's most recent antivax book. Does this bother @ClevelandClinic? Not at all. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/09/12/has-dr-oz-become-antivaccine/ …

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      12. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        And @ClevelandClinic promotes reiki. You have to see what it says about this form of faith healing that substitutes Eastern mysticism for Judeo-Christian religion to believe it. Read it! 12/ https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/wellness/integrative/treatments-services/reiki …

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      13. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        I pick on @ClevelandClinic, but it's far from the only example. @UCIrvineHealth, for instance, received a $200 million donation from the Samuelis. 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/09/19/quackademic-medicine-now-reigns-supreme-at-uc-irvine/ …

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      14. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        The Samuelis have long donated to UC Irvine and promoted homeopathy there. 14/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/09/26/homeopathy-at-uc-irvine-it-can-run-but-it-cant-hide/ …

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      15. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        There are many other examples of academic medical centers embracing quackery. For example, @TJUHospital, which this year went full quack by announcing a department of integrative medicine. 15/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/02/27/thomas-jefferson-university-goes-quack/ …

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      16. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        My own medical alma mater @umichmedicine has anthroposophic medicine, naturopathy, and homeopathy. 16/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/07/26/anthroposophy-homeopathy-quackademic-medicine-university-of-michigan-marches/ …

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      17. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Unfortunately, a lot of @theNCI designated comprehensive cancer centers have embraced integrative oncology quackery, including big names cancer centers like @sloan_kettering, @MDAndersonNews, and others. 17/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/12/04/integrating-pseudoscience-and-mysticism-into-oncology-in-bastions-of-evidence-based-medicine/ …

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      18. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        I wrote a Perspective article about the quackery infiltrating academic medicine for @NatureRevCancer. Maybe I need to write an update. 18/https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc3822 …

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      19. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Everywhere, physicians are embracing the quackery of acupuncture, even though it's never been shown to be more than a theatrical placebo. 19/https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/fulltext/2013/06000/Acupuncture_Is_Theatrical_Placebo.25.aspx …

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      20. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Indeed, the entire history of traditional Chinese medicine has been retconned. What we know as TCM is not ancient. Chairman Mao invented it. 20/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/ …

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      21. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Meanwhile, credulous physicians are indoctrinated into believing in pseudoscience. 21/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-integrative-oncology-scholars-program/ …

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      22. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        And this doesn't even count the proliferation of for-profit stem cell clinics, the vast majority of which are physician-run, all of which sell rank quackery. 22/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dubious-for-profit-stem-cell-clinics-co-opting-clinicaltrials-gov-as-a-marketing-tool/ …

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      23. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        So, @AustinChiangMD and others in @AHSM_org, here's what I want to know. What do you mean by "combatting medical misinformation"? As incredibly hard as they are, antivax and cancer quackery are easy. Combatting the infiltration of quackery into medicine is MUCH harder. 23/

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      24. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        I guess what I'm saying is: Beware mixed messages. It's all well and good to combat, for instance, antivax misinformation and @goop. Just be consistent and don’t promote integrative quackery. 24/

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      25. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Jun 2019

        Advocate for the most rigorous science feasible in determining the standard of care in medicine, and then communicate it while opposing all firms of pseudoscience and bad science. 25/25

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