Are you kidding me? Disagreement on what constitutes the most important science is not "taking a dump on you".
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Replying to @gorskon @venkmurthy and
I mean, it’s not as though we’re in #
#scicomm and#skepticism haven’t been dealing with such indignities from our colleagues for decades who don’t consider our approach worthwhile or good science.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @venkmurthy @MedCrisis and
OK. I’ll bite. How do YOU deal with medical disinformation and conspiracy theories? Teach me your better way. Show me how it’s done. I’m always open to adding more weaponry to my armamentarium and/or replacing what doesn’t work.
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Replying to @gorskon @MedCrisis and
I don't have all the answers. I pointed to some people who I think are great and educating people about medical science as examples. I try to emulate them.
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Replying to @venkmurthy @MedCrisis and
Two out of the four of them don’t impress me in
#scicomm, at least not with respect to countering disinformation. Prasad in particular has been VERY contemptuous, dismissing debunking pseudoscience as “Michael Jordan dunking on a 7’ hoop” and utterly beneath him.1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @venkmurthy and
I disagree with 98% of
@VPrasadMDMPH’s opinions, but I think he’s kinda right on this. As an example, I have spent the better part of this pandemic fighting against *other scientists* about “COVID myocarditis”. They are more worthy to dispute than typical woo-meisters.3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @AngryCardio @venkmurthy and
No, he’s not. He dismissed debunking quackery because he thinks it’s easy, so easy that it’s far beneath his exaltedness, that it should be so obvious that it’s nonsense that it’s trivial to explain and counter. It’s not, and he is utterly clueless about what it takes,
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Replying to @gorskon @AngryCardio and
Let's turn this around
@gorskon, how do you prioritize your efforts?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Stay tuned. That’s too big a question for Twitter (for me at least, given Twitter’s lack of nuance); so I might very well have to write a post about it sometime in the next week or two.
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Replying to @gorskon @venkmurthy and
Looking forward to reading it. May have to pencil in a few hours for one of your posts.
But seriously, where I see more need is high-profile science with a big impact. For me, potential cancelation of football was a big deal—hence my concentration on “COVID myocarditis”.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @AngryCardio @gorskon and
I couldn't care less about football, but this message of myocarditis was being used to auger waves upon waves of people with heart failure and instilling inappropriate fears in people who *recovered* from COVID.
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