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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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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Sep 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted sheologian

    Sorry, but if you support licensing acupuncturists, you are NOT "pro-science."https://twitter.com/sheologian/status/1175126837011386374 …

    David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

    sheologian @sheologian
    Replying to @gorskon @koleszar_matt @MattforMichigan
    I’m very much pro-science. That said, when clients self-harm, particularly with picking their skin or cutting, going to acupuncture scratches that itch for them and is much safer. I’m glad there are licensed acupuncturists.
    12:26 PM - 20 Sep 2019
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      2. sheologian‏ @sheologian 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Great! I’m antiscience then.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @sheologian

        As you say.

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      1. Joshua Sharp‏ @JoshuaSSharp 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Meh. I'm for licensed hair-stylists too. Not because I think hair styling is health care, but because I think hair styling is an aesthetic practice with serious public health implications, and workers need to be trained how to handle it.

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      1. Blocked Macerator‏ @UKHomeopathyReg 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        But some US states insist on licensure of people who cut hair? And florists? It's seen as a revenue stream.

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      2. Dr. Beth S. Linas(she/her)‏Verified account @bethlinas 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        While data is limited on acupuncture, many in #pain and #addiction medicine support its further research for management of chronic and acute pain. @CMS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report discusses this on page 43. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pmtf-final-report-2019-05-23.pdf …

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @bethlinas @cms

        Yes, I know. They're really misguided in that, given that acupuncture is based on a prescientific understanding of human physiology and, contrary to what acupuncturists claim, has never been shown to have anything beyond nonspecific effects.

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      2. dre‏ @dustandstars 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Licensing them means a slightly greater chance in hell of upholding basic bloodborne pathogen guidelines, though. While I'm anti-woo, I'm also anti-Hep B. Like, are needle exchanges validating addiction or just trying to minimize downstream health risks?

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      3. Stimulus & Printer 500‏ @shaxmatist 21 Sep 2019
        Replying to @dustandstars @gorskon

        Same goes for abortions and cosmetic plastic surgery and a lot of procedures with no health benefit. Gorski holds a fringe view that licensure = endorsement. It isnt.

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      2. Nick Mulcahy‏ @MulcahyNick 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @gorskon

        Dawn Hershmann, MD, of Columbia U, NYC, and trialist for the National Cancer Institute would very likely disagree:https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/889817 …

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 20 Sep 2019
        Replying to @MulcahyNick

        Heheh. You really don't think I was unaware of this study, do you?https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/acupuncture-versus-breast-cancer-treatment-induced-joint-pain-spinning-another-bad-study/ …

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