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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. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    4. 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
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and

      And who’s pushing those climate solutions, in their eyes? I’d bet their blame starts sounding like a conspiracy theory over liberals, “globalists,” or whoever wanting to impose their will.😏

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @RadioFreeTom and

      Also, it’s a common mistake to dismiss denialists as stupid or dumb or lazy. Many of them are not either. Stupid people aren’t very good at motivated reasoning, after all. Nor are lazy people.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

      I'll just go back to what I said about the beginning: Not everyone who disagrees with things you value are conspiracy theorists. To me, that's just lazy labeling, like "fascists" or "socialists." Some people are just ignorant, others are fearful of what they don't understand.

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    8. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @gorskon and

      Then you are missing the point about how denialism works and not paying attention to what they're saying. In the end, they have to come up with an explanation for why all these scientists are apparently lying, in concert, across the world, across dozens of journals.

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @RadioFreeTom and

      Exactly. When your beliefs are so contrary to science, you have to find a way to justify them, to explain why nearly all the scientists/experts in the world support the conventional science you reject. That almost always takes a conspiracy theory —often more than one.

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

      Yes, everyone who doesn’t understand you or who doesn’t want to heed you is a conspiracy theorist. I get it. Every guy who ever argued with his doctor about smoking and drinking is a science denier. I surrender.

      4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Sep 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and

      Given the size of this particular straw man you’ve been torching, that is probably for the better, because I’m tired too. Denialism is not about heeding one person or arguing with one’s doctor about smoking and drinking.

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

          No, it’s about agreeing with you :)

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. (((Mark)))‏ @MarkRap40434853 12 Sep 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @gorskon and

          It’s a shame that a person like yourself, intelligent educated. Is arguing with what you THINK others are saying, not what they are actually saying. Note your use of ‘absolute terms’ is a tell tale. Any sentences that as the word, Everyone, is suspect

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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