This weekend, @nytimes published 2 pieces that undermined current public health advice on #coronavirus, from @DrDavidKatz. @tomfriedman, green lighted by @jimdao & @JBennet. I lost my shit yesterday on the 4 of them, but thought a more calm exposition of views might be good. 1/
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OMG - yes it is his site - links from "COuncil members"pic.twitter.com/9lrPSD17T7
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This is "beetroot and garlic" bullshit
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Yep - I can tell you about him offline he taught one of my med school classes at Yale Med...This tweet make me realize is need to start creating collections of experts we should be listening to...
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Yale, also, is a hotbed of "integrative medicine" quackery.
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Why do you call promotion of good nutrition 'quackery'? Good nutrition supports health. The medical fraternity would do well to emphasise the maintenance of health (and all practices that support this) above the application of medicines to treat illness (reactive, too late)
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This should get
@gorskon and the skeptics frothing. Manual acupuncture for migraine https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1096?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage … New trial moves acupuncture from complementary therapy to evidence based treatment - Show replies
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Oh my GOD. The NERVE of that man! Recommending that people eat healthy foods like blueberries, and chicken soup with real vegetables! Whatever next--is he going to say that one shouldn't subsist on Whoppers and McMuffins if one wants optimal health?
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Dr Katz got a god spanking from one of the Ebola experts from the NYTimes this morning on
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Good*, although I’m sure God would smack him if he could
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