Doctors, sadly, are just as prone to tribalism, conspiracy theories, and pseudoscience as anyone else—possibly more so because we as a profession tend to think of ourselves as the best and the brightest, who can "figure out" topics in which we have no expertise.https://twitter.com/bone00afide/status/1260976747014651905 …
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Replying to @gorskon
I finally left physician-only Facebook groups bc I couldn't take it anymore. I forgot how sheltering residency/academic life and med twitter can be.
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Replying to @dfreedman7 @gorskon
The number of PhDs involved in pushing and stoking conspiracy theories is frightening. Even more so as it gives these theories a veneer of respectability and legitimacy.
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Ph.Ds in pertinent fields? Or just in general?
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What I've observed is typically people outside their expertise. They're just flaunting the advanced degree. Like Shiva who has zero medical training
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Yeah, it's usually Dunning-Kruger, docs and PhDs expounding on disciplines outside their area of expertise but filled with hubris that makes them think they know more than they do in that area.
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