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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.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @GOP

      Yup. @RadioFreeTom is incredibly naive about conspiracy theories. When it comes to conspiracy theories, @GOP fear surpasses @TheDemocrats. It’s not even close. At worst, Dems have anti-GMO and some antivax, but @GOP long ago surpassed them in antivax.

      2 replies 3 retweets 28 likes
    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

      First, "I don't believe climate science" isn't a conspiracy theory, it's ignorance. As is being an anti-vaxxer. "Hillary Clinton drinks baby blood" in a different league. But as usual, "I must make this about my preferred politics" overwhelms everything else.

      11 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and

      Except that Mark is correct. All science denialism IS rooted in conspiracy theories. How many of would you like me to list for climate science denial Ana antivax? It’ll be a LONG Twitter thread.

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
    4. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

      I can’t roll my eyes harder.

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and

      That’s nice, but it doesn’t change that, for example, the antivaccine movement is at its heart a conspiracy theory that posits that “they” (CDC, medicine, pharma, government, etc.) “knew” that vaccines cause autism/are dangerous/are ineffective/etc. but covered it up.

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

      I'm rolling my eyes because this is liberal Twitter thing: "I agree with your point, so now let me expand your point to include Ronald Reagan and the GOP in 1952." Anti-vaxxers are conspiracy types, I agree. But not everyone who denies science is about conspiracy theories. /1

      3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @gorskon and

      Motivated reasoning is behind a lot of it. "If I believe X, I will have to do something I don't like. So therefore I will disbelieve X and all things that could possibly lead to having to believe X." This is why people think MDs don't understand diets: Because they won't diet. /2

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    8. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @gorskon and

      I will even agree with you that conservatives, whose politics are naturally more pessimistic and fearful, are more prone to conspiracism. But "everyone who won't agree me is a science-denying conspiracy theorist" is just the usual "I want what I want" politics. /3

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    9. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @gorskon and

      It's a short jump from "accept my policy preferences" to "otherwise, you're a conspiracy theorist." It's annoying as hell and it's lazy reasoning. /4x

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and

      Nice straw man ya got there. You’re conflating policy preferences with the science used to justify them. The two are NOT the same. Disagreeing with a specific policy to mitigate, for example, climate change is NOT the same as denying that human activity is causing climate change.

      2 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @RadioFreeTom and

      What you’re doing is akin to likening disagreement over, for example, which specific vaccines are safe and effective enough and beneficial to a broad enough swath of the population to be included in the CDC become schedule to the antivax claim that vaccines do more harm than good

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

          I know plenty of people who deny climate science purely because they don't want to open the door to climate solutions that would be unpleasant to them. They're not conspiracy theorists; really, they're not even science-deniers. They're just stubborn and dumb.

          3 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @gorskon and

          The people in Congress who don't want NASA collecting earth data aren't conspiracy theorists or science deniers; they don't want NASA doing that *because* they get it about science and they know what the science will tell them, so they're nipping the debate in the bud. /1

          1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
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