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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 Dec 2019

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Ivan Oransky

      The reason @PGtzsche1 "attracted the wrong crowd” is because that “wrong crowd” recognized a kindred spirit, implacably hostile to psychiatry, flirting with the antivaccine movement (and apparently about to publish a book whose title sounds antivaccine), etc. 1/https://twitter.com/ivanoransky/status/1211652137199063040 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Ivan OranskyVerified account @ivanoransky
      "It had become clear to @iainchalmersTTi, at least, that in taking on the establishment, @PGtzsche1 had attracted the wrong crowd." https://undark.org/2019/12/30/peter-gotzsche-cochrane/ …
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      Basically, the antivaxxers who showed up at @PGtzsche1’s conference and wouldn’t stop asking questions based on antivaccine premises recognized one of their own, or at least someone who was evolving into one of their own. 2/

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

      “One questioner asked Peter Aaby...why, given the apparent abundance of studies showing that measles is actually good for you, we don’t try and study what happens when you give certain African children large doses of Vitamin C instead of 'injecting them full of toxins.'" 3/

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

      "'Could I perhaps ask also for questions about … not vaccines?' Gøtzsche asked eventually. "The next questioner promptly took the mic and said they had a question about vaccines. 'Please, please, please talk about something else now!' said Gøtzsche.” 4/

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      "'There had been plans to publish a transcript of the Q&A, but these were quickly scuttled — “too embarrassing,' Gøtzsche admitted later. The whole thing seemed to alarm him. 'We were quite disturbed by these people,' he said.” As well he should be. 5/

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      Why was @PGtzsche1 surprised and alarmed that his first Institute for Scientific Freedom meeting was full of antivaxxers demanding to ask questions about vaccines and talking over him? He shouldn’t be. 6/

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      After all, he’s been flirting with the antivax movement for years, and only pulled out of the conference hosted by @picphysicians when it came to light that @RobertKennedyJr and other “luminaries” of the antivax movement would be speaking there too. 6/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/peter-gotzsche-and-antivaxers-should-a-science-advocate-ever-speak-at-an-antivaccine-conference/ …

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      Also, @PGtzsche1 invited antipsychiatry speakers to the same conference and has been implacably hostile to pharma and pharmaceutical drugs. He wrote a book about how to "bypass doctors and seek out the best medical information via the internet.” 7/

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    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      Several of his other books have quite inflammatory titles, like “Deadly Psychiatry,” “Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime,” etc. 8/pic.twitter.com/kGKbOacxOW

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    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      His forthcoming book is entitled “Vaccines: Truth, Lies, and Controversy,” which sure as heck sounds like it’s at least going to lean antivaccine. Is it any surprise that antivaxxers think he’s one of their own? 9/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 30 Dec 2019

      Sadly, @PGtzsche1, although appropriately alarmed at the cranks he’s attracting, appears not to have the self-awareness and introspection necessary to ask WHY he attracts these people. It doesn’t occur to him that it’s because his beliefs have veered into crank territory. 10/10

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        1. provaxtexan  🇺🇸‏ @provaxtexan 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @PGtzsche1

          Both he and Aaby have basked in the glow of antivaccine adulation for years. Now they are seeing the damage it has done to their reputation and they are caught in the quicksand and can't get out

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