Feedback that's of any use involves positive examples, not just criticism. So, again, why don't you tell us, or, better yet, show us how it's done, starting with antivaccine misinformation? Teach us. Help us. I'm dead serious.
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Replying to @gorskon @VPrasadMDMPH and
Rather telling that there's no response to this.
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Replying to @dfreedman7 @VPrasadMDMPH and
Of course there's no response other than to repeat,"Why don't you do what I think is important for a while instead of that stuff you do now that I consider so unimportant and easy?" He doesn't know and thus has no positive advice to give about countering the antivaccine movement.
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Replying to @gorskon @dfreedman7 and
The original tweet that started this makes sense. Doctors should be careful not to amplify quackery that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. Similarly, insults and mockery are likely ineffective. But this has morphed, seemingly, into doctors should not engage at all ever.
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Replying to @JHowardBrainMD @gorskon and
At the risk of getting one of those haymakers on my chin, I think I need to wade in. I've been in this industry for 20 years, and the way some of you describe it is awfully two dimensional. I'll see a couple patients this week who are in my office b/c they felt mocked elsewhere.
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Replying to @drbrignall @gorskon and
We can all agree that genuinely confused individuals should never be mocked. I regret that if I have done it.
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Replying to @JHowardBrainMD @drbrignall and
Indeed. If there's one principle I've lived by, for instance, it's that in deconstructing anecdotes involving quackery, I never mock the victims, ever. Similarly, I never mock the merely vaccine-averse. The quacks and antivax leaders (e.g. Wakefield), however, are fair game.
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I try to focus on the arguments and not the person. But at times I find that simply stating the facts of the case plainly gets perceived as an attack.
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That's very true. A lot of the reason is that the person's identit system is tied up in their belief system. Attack the belief system, and they perceive it as a personal attack.
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Replying to @gorskon @naturoheretic and
The person's self-identity is tied up in their belief system.
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