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 -
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.
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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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Replying to @venkmurthy @AngryCardio and
Plenty of rational, normal people were being harmed by bad takes on this science.
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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.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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?
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Replying to @gorskon @AngryCardio and
I neither claimed that this was the height of science nor published it in a leading journal.
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Replying to @venkmurthy @gorskon and
Medlife Crisis (Rohin) Retweeted Medlife Crisis (Rohin)
Late to the conversation & frankly just honoured to be mentioned in this company. I hope I present an amicable conclusion, but might just piss everyone off equally
To save spamming you, here it is in a separate thread:https://twitter.com/MedCrisis/status/1324459387574956040 …Medlife Crisis (Rohin) added,
Medlife Crisis (Rohin)Verified account @MedCrisisA really interesting debate about *what* scientists and doctors with a public platform should be debunking. The disagreement: is it more worthwhile to debunk quackery or systemic problems in mainstream medicine? https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1324384312851079168 …Show this thread0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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