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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.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Daniel Goldstein

      Spare me. That is the single most ridiculous analogy I’ve seen today.🙄 A bookseller can decide to stock a violent white supremacist fantasy novel based on The Turner Diaries if it wants, and I can call out that same bookseller publicly for making the decision to stock the book.https://twitter.com/DrDan_Biotech/status/1212545083461062656 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Daniel Goldstein @DrDan_Biotech
      Replying to @gorskon @audible_com
      We are at considerable risk if we begin to “police” the marketplace of ideas. Evidently, this did not sell well/ended up as a sale item. Attacking book sellers for what they sell is very little different than book burning. Does such a book disgust me- yes. I didn’t buy it.
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020

      Let’s put it another way. Just because someone like Stack has the right to write a racist book like this does not obligate a bookseller to stock that book, much less feature it in its New Year’s Day sale. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020

      Criticizing that bookseller for deciding to stock such a book is NOT akin to book burning. There aren’t enough facepalms in existence to cover this comparison.pic.twitter.com/WshXSZwT7I

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020

      Seriously, this sort of thinking equating criticism of a booksellers’ decision to stock a hateful book with book burning basically says that you can never criticize a booksellers’ decisions to stock a book if you believe in freedom of speech.🙄

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020

      It’s a false dilemma. You can do both: Support the bookseller’s right to stock whatever he wants while criticizing him when he stocks something vile like this.

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    6. Daniel Goldstein‏ @DrDan_Biotech 1 Jan 2020
      Replying to @gorskon

      Agree- Criticism is fine- but in this day and age this tends not to stop with criticism. If there is something to criticize it is the book itself and the author. What do we do when it is no longer “socially acceptable” for a bookseller to carry a Koran or the Talmud?

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020
      Replying to @DrDan_Biotech

      Spare me. Criticizing BOTH is appropriate. There’s no reason to exempt the bookseller for CHOOSING to stock such material. Also, boycotts are just free speech and the free market at work. Why do you hate freedom?🙄

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    8. Daniel Goldstein‏ @DrDan_Biotech 1 Jan 2020
      Replying to @gorskon

      How do you feel about pharmacists refusing to give out Plan -B or contraception? Asked more broadly, do we confer upon sellers the moral responsibility to decide what consumers can obtain, or not? And if individuals are accountable in this way, how do we function?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020
      Replying to @DrDan_Biotech

      OK, I take back what I said about your book burning analogy being the most ridiculous analogy I’ve seen today. THIS analogy to pharmacists is the most ridiculous analogy I’ve seen today. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @DrDan_Biotech

      Pharmacists are bound by science, law, and ethics regarding their professional behavior. There are right and wrong answers, and a pharmacist’s refusal to fill a prescription can have adverse health consequences to as cv patient.

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        1. Daniel Goldstein‏ @DrDan_Biotech 1 Jan 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          I agree with you on this- BUT the issue is very much in play right now! Do we want retailers to make moral decisions on our behalf, and when. Society as a whole places limits on certain goods- but when do we want retailers to make these decisions?

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        1. Daniel Goldstein‏ @DrDan_Biotech 1 Jan 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          Pharmacists are a subset of retail- admittedly a special case. But we have now agreed that they should not undertake this moral decision as we want all drugs available to all people. The am not sure how booksellers have this responsibility if pharmacists do not.

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