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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.

Michigan, USA
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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. 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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      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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          Hi there is your unroll: Thread by @gorskon: "Gonna add something to what @CaulfieldTim said in the article: “...there has been too much tolerance of pseudoscience fr […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1142155098610655233.html … See you soon. 🤖

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        1. Jerry Alexandratos  🇺🇸‏ @JNAlexandratos 21 Jun 2019
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          While I'm healthy, I will advocate, rationally & peacefully. But I swear if I ever get cancer & someone offers me reiki or other BS, I will threaten to beat them with my IV pole. If I've got <6 months to live, I'm going to do the world a favor & take some of them with me as I go.

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        1. Masha Birkby‏ @MashaBirkby 21 Jun 2019
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          Thank you. At some point in my life I was into woo. Not to dangerous levels, but it was definitely affecting my life. Though it took me a few years to get out of it, your RI blog - and the commenters on it - was The Thing that started to break the chokehold. So thank you!!!

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        2. Matthew Loxton‏ @mloxton 21 Jun 2019
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          Very much agree, and have only one positive thing to say about woo. If woo is used in a complimentary way to increase the adoption and adherence of medical treatment, then I am fine with that. E.g at one VA facility, they have a clinic in which Veterans select activities /2

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        3. Matthew Loxton‏ @mloxton 21 Jun 2019
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          This might be drumming, Tai Chi, aroma-therapy, pottery, etc. In many cases, these activities practiced in a mental safe space, and overseen by VA nursing staff, are effective in getting the Veterans in a frame of mind in which they were more likely to adhere to care plans /3

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        1. Kris Amos‏ @Godspeed2 21 Jun 2019
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          You ever consider that perhaps your perspectives on non-western medical approaches are wrong, if not ignorant?

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        1. Keith DeHaas‏ @KeithDeHaas 22 Jun 2019
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          Excellent thread.

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