God, I hate the “Why don’t you write about what *I* think is important?” gambit. The only appropriate response is to tell the person to go F herself or this. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/05/18/john-horgan-is-skeptical-of-skeptics-or-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-versus-the-quest-for-world-peace/ …
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It’s the sort of thing skeptics get all the time. It’s basically the one using it telling the writer that what *you* care about isn’t important and what *I* care about is. 3/
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But there’s a lot more annoyingly wrong about this, for example: “What irks her isn’t actually the manipulative capitalism of Goop, but really anything that undermines her authority as a physician...” That’s truly
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Apparently, the concept that a doctor might be upset by the selling of pseudoscience for large amounts of money completely eludes Ms. Block. So she paints Dr. G’s criticism of
@goop and@GwynethPaltrow as a celebrity feud fueled by Dr. G’s doctor-as-god complex.
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Here, Ms. Block defends vaginal steaming. I laughed. Just because you didn’t burn yourself trying it one time doesn’t mean that there isn’t a significant risk of a burn, as
@DrJenGunter states. 6/pic.twitter.com/ORAT4fzf2h
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Ms. Block should try this on for size: “There are, anecdotally, many parents who are convinced that vaccines caused their children’s autism. Are you really going to argue with them? Isn’t that called gaslighting?” Can Ms. Block tell me how Ross is different from what she did? 7/pic.twitter.com/LgampcQcFT
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She won’t be able to, because it’s not different. 8/
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And she concludes with another “Why don’t you write about what *I* think is important instead of that unimportant stuff you’re passionate about?” dig. Read again my response a few Tweets up. She even links to this insulting Tweet I covered a few weeks s ago. 9/ https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1188964782184919042 …
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Also, “I am the fucking expert” was about forced birth trolls. But what are facts anyway?pic.twitter.com/cSS8qqB4Y4
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I’d forgotten about the context of that one. That makes @writingblock’s use of it disingenuous as hell.
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