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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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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Apr 2020

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr. Golf Shirt

    It’s called applied kinesiology, and, yes, it is a thing done by quacks. It’s also just as dumb as it sounds.https://twitter.com/DrGolfShirt/status/1252332325385486340 …

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    LOL WHAT?!?!?!? pic.twitter.com/t0aqKCPQu3
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      1. Wear a Mask and Stay HOME!‏ @ELAdepartmentAR 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        I'm no doctor or even doctorate. Heck I only have a degrees in history and Education. Even I know that's not how science works!

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      2. Dr. Golf Shirt‏ @DrGolfShirt 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        I am SHOCKED I’ve never heard of this before. I’m going make so much fun of it now.

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      3. David Fischer, MD‏ @IgECPD 22 Apr 2020
        Replying to @DrGolfShirt @gorskon

        To diagnose ‘allergies’ in babies there’s also ‘applied kinesiology by proxy’. An adult holds the child as well as the food and they push on the adult’s arm to demonstrate what the *baby* should avoid. And yes, it’s actually a thing...

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      1. James Lawrence‏ @ItsScienceJim 21 Apr 2020
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        These Tennis stars are Quackers

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      1. Talking Tim‏ @TalkingHeadTim 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        It works better if you hold TWO slices of bread between your fingers, with cheese in the middle, and then you eat it. It won’t help diagnose anything, but it probably will taste good.

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      1. BritInCanada‏ @C_T_Ottawa 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        Chiroquackors seem to love this too, for pushing their supplements. It’s a simple one to debunk to friends though, with the trick being removing the dowsed pressure.

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      2. Braden MacBeth‏ @Mythoclast_BM 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        Oh it's dumber than it sounds.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @Mythoclast_BM

        Of course.

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      1. Bonnie Shaljean  ☘️‏ @BonnieShaljean 21 Apr 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        He's also an anti-vaxxer. Wonder if he'll stay one when/if they come up with a vaccine for Covid19? Really disappointed to see all this. I always thought he was so classy. (Am first & foremost a Murray fan, tho.)

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      1. Sheryle L Lyman‏ @wcclyman 21 Apr 2020
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        JesusHHebrew.

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