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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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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Oct 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr Paul Mackey

      I, too, find it puzzling. I don't discount the work of those who hold pharma to task and demand higher standards of evidence for conventional medical interventions. Quite the contrary! I applaud them. We should be natural allies! But for some reason we're not. 1/https://twitter.com/auscandoc/status/1189604527990702080 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc
      Replying to @dfreedman7
      I find this whole spat puzzling. Why can’t we do both? I perceive that pseudoscience debunkers on Twitter are just as critical of poor/harmful medical interventions @VPrasadMDMPH @GidMK @gorskon #yayscience
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Oct 2019

      That's why it's so disappointing to encounter such a contemptuously dismissive attitude from that group towards combatting pseudoscience in medicine. It's that kind of attitude that makes such doctors, of whom there are quite a few, part of the problem. 2/

      12:51 PM - 30 Oct 2019
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Oct 2019

          It's not just doctors like Dr. Prasad, though. A more prevalent (and also corrosive) form of that attitude is at play among many practicing doctors, academic and nonacademic. It's more akin to apathy. We call these docs "shruggies." 3/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-shruggie-awakening/ …

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Oct 2019

          Shruggies' attitude is basically to shrug their shoulders and ask, "Why bother? CAM is all obviously nonsense, and it probably doesn't do any harm." Yes, it's nonsense, but often not obviously so to many, and it does do harm. 4/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Oct 2019

          Unfortunately, none of this is new. This very attitude on the part of such doctors, be they shruggies or docs who think that docs who take on pharma are cool while those taking on quackery drool, has been a longstanding impediment to combatting pseudoscience in medicine. 5/5

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