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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
sciencebasedmedicine.org
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2020
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    2. Venk Murthy‏ @venkmurthy 5 Nov 2020
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2020
      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
    4. Angry Cardiologist‏ @AngryCardio 5 Nov 2020
      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
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2020
      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,

      3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Venk Murthy‏ @venkmurthy 5 Nov 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @AngryCardio and

      Let's turn this around @gorskon, how do you prioritize your efforts?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2020
      Replying to @venkmurthy @AngryCardio and

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Angry Cardiologist‏ @AngryCardio 5 Nov 2020
      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
    9. Venk Murthy‏ @venkmurthy 5 Nov 2020
      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. Venk Murthy‏ @venkmurthy 5 Nov 2020
      Replying to @venkmurthy @AngryCardio and

      Plenty of rational, normal people were being harmed by bad takes on this science.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2020
      Replying to @venkmurthy @AngryCardio and

      Plenty of rational, normal people are being harmed by bad takes on masks and the promotion of #COVID19 "cures" like #Hydroxychloroquine, too. The latter of those, I remind you, was touted by a lot of otherwise reasonable academics before there was any good evidence.

      11:42 AM - 5 Nov 2020
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @venkmurthy and

          After all, how many rational, normal people caught #COVID19 because they believed antimask disinformation? How many rational, normal people spread #COVID19 to others because they believed antimask disinformation?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Venk Murthy‏ @venkmurthy 5 Nov 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @AngryCardio and

          I neither claimed that this was the height of science nor published it in a leading journal.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Richard Sever‏ @cshperspectives 5 Nov 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @venkmurthy and

          Genuine question (without wishing to get involved in a dispute): is it true to say a lot of “reasonable academics” touted HCQ as a cure? 1/2

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Richard Sever‏ @cshperspectives 5 Nov 2020
          Replying to @cshperspectives @gorskon and

          My impression was a) many non-academic MDs have touted HCQ as a cure, b) many hospital MDs used it, presumably out of desperation/hope, c) some academics considered it a potential therapy, awaiting further data, which ultimately showed it not to be. It is a) that dismays me 2/2

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