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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 11 Feb 2020

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Saad B. Omer

      Germ theory denial is a major strain in antivaccine beliefs, and far more MDs than you’d think are open to such beliefs. They undergird antivax and alt med; you find them in antivax quacks and “integrative medicine” docs.https://twitter.com/SaadOmer3/status/1227333924650725376 …

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      Saad B. OmerVerified account @SaadOmer3
      I thought I had seen it all but then I saw a vaccine skeptic physician question germ theory at a weekend roundtable in CT! What next? physicists for the flat earth theory?
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 11 Feb 2020

      Admittedly, there are degrees of germ theory denial. Usually such docs spout “soft denial” quoting Antoine Béchamp’s “the terrain is everything,” that posts that microbes can’t cause disease in a healthy host.

      8:37 PM - 11 Feb 2020
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        2. Vincent P. Kuiper‏ @VPKuiper 11 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          They've probably never heard of "controlled human infection trials" with healthy volunteers (e.g. malaria, schistosomiasis, hookworm, typhoid, RSV, influenza and many more)

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Dr. Tara C. Smith‏Verified account @aetiology 11 Feb 2020
          Replying to @VPKuiper @gorskon

          I think some just see themselves as far too healthy for something like a mere germ to fell them. See eg Bill Maher.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Relief Belief - pronouns: smartest guy in the room‏ @ReliefBelief 11 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          Wow. You really can't beat statistics can you. We're doomed.

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        2. Blocked Macerator‏ @UKHomeopathyReg 12 Feb 2020

          Vitalism goes back a long way.

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