Your comment "Alternative med feels like a landmine of product sales that may help or not" is valid, but that part of it is quite small. But it's what people (Propagandists?) focus on to attempt to discredit all of Integrative Medicine and its practitioners.
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Replying to @kenjaques @iXeno and
That is definitely a factor and point well taken. I’m a huge proponent of magnesium and float therapy and have gotten great benefit from it, yet often the usual tack is to take the goofiest thing (look up jade eggs) and use that as a way of vilifying anything “alternative.”
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Replying to @GinaMcGalliard @kenjaques and
Now as for jade eggs- of which I learned way more I expected from
@DrJenGunter... I'm no prude and sex can be very therapeutic - I have zero problem with sex toys used by solo or consenting adults, but goop made up a pseudoscientific story to sell more eggs.#SelfInflictedWound2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @iXeno @GinaMcGalliard and
Alternative medicine is aimed at women who hence bear the burden of the harms. My issue was being dunked on without being tagged. And anyone who thinks I’m “just” the “anti goop doctor” hasn’t bothered to read my work so shouldn’t be commenting on it.
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Replying to @DrJenGunter @iXeno and
Also, how many people who have been dunking on me have had to call the FBI because of threats after pieces they have written and then because they know people are listening and need the info keep writing about the subject anyway? Right. And what I do is easy? Fuck. Right. Off.
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Replying to @DrJenGunter @GinaMcGalliard and
I am big supporter Jen - I am not dunking on you deliberately, maybe this is meant for someone else - or maybe I over-stepped bounds by tagging you in on topic you know about and there are media people following the thread. Apologies - no more tags to bother you.
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Replying to @iXeno @GinaMcGalliard and
I am just replying to everyone on the thread. This isn’t directed at you.
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Replying to @DrJenGunter @iXeno and
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD
Tellingly, this whole kerfuffle erupted after the 10' dunking oncologist in question posted a dismissive Tweet about dunking on alt med on Twitter. Someone responded with a link by me. And then…https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1189729901903056896?s=21 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskonReplying to @gorskon @BrowOfJustice and 2 othersFor the record, this is the Tweet that I responded to that set me off. Go one Tweet above it, and what do you see? A Tweet that links to a post by me discussing the pseudoscience of Goop. https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1188943269410922497?s=21 …1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @DrJenGunter and
I get
@VPrasadMDMPH's point, though I don't approve of his subsequent behavior. A lot of people are hurt by medicine's "accepted" practices. People given chemo, made bankrupt by treatments that we as doctors endorsed. Vioxx and Avandia killed 200,000 people.6 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @aribindi @DrJenGunter and
You're conflating things here. Patients go bankrupt from expensive cancer treatment, whether it's based on strong or weak evidence, because they don't have adequate heal;th insurance, which is a societal problem in the only industrialized country w/o universal health insurance.
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As for our 10’ dunking oncologist's original point, no skeptic denies that there are medical practices that can cause harm and aren't supported by sufficiently strong evidence, at least none I've ever encountered in my nearly two decades of doing this.
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It's also not as though skeptics haven't been discussing the relative values of working on conventional medical practices with insufficit evidence versus alternative medicine quackery. There's a serious, thoughtful discussion to be had there, one that's been going on a long time.
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You yourself have written about specific issues in that line, in addition to writing about alternative medicine (this is obviously not for your consumption).
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