Remember when @PGtzsche1 got all indignant when I said he’d gone “full antivax” after having learned he was scheduled to speak on the same bill as @RobertKennedyJr at an antivax conference hosted by @picphysicians? Now he’s comparing HPV vaccines to tobacco!
1/ https://twitter.com/PGtzsche1/status/1229281441051283458 …
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Prof. Gøtzsche’s choice of comparison is particularly telling. It sure does lead me to think he’s susceptible to antivax misinformation. Even he should know that placebos don’t necessarily have to be completely inert. 3/
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Prof. Gøtzsche appears to have fallen prey to methodolatry, defined as the profane worship of the double blind, placebo controlled randomized clinical trial as the only valid method of investigation (and, apparently, saline as the only scientifically valid injection placebo). 4/
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Methodolatry is a scientific shortcoming common among
@cochranecollab scientists, as the evidence-based medicine paradigm can easily devolve into it. With Prof. Gøtzsche, we see methodolatry on steroids. 5/5Show this thread
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