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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In fact, I've been writing about Dr. Katz for a while now, starting when he first espoused a "more fluid form of evidence than many of us have imbibed from our medical educations" to justify acupuncture, homeopathy, etc.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/05/19/integrative-medicine-at-yale-a-more-flui/ …
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Indeed, Dr. Katz has been full of bad reasoning in the service of quackademic medicine for a long time. Here's an example from 2014.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/false-dilemma-of-david-katz/ …
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That's gotta really irk Dr Novella.
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BUT please note we have brilliant faculty challenging this! http://ow.ly/jsvm50ySWBw
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