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.
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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
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Replying to @JHowardBrainMD @gorskon and
Good point - enough said. Should I block or just put him on ignore?
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Do whatever you like.
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