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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 @venkmurthy and
Yeah, if there’s one thing that really irritates me about the sort of criticism of “debunking” often directed at skeptics, it’s the sentiment, “Why do you waste your time on that, which I consider unimportant? Why don’t you concentrate on what *I* consider important instead?”
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Replying to @gorskon @JHowardBrainMD and
Jim Hogan once pulled that gambit four years ago. It did not go over well.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/05/18/john-horgan-is-skeptical-of-skeptics-or-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-versus-the-quest-for-world-peace/ …
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Finally, I’d argue that there’s a real need for some “debunking” skills in medical academia, given the infiltration of pseudoscience and quackery there over the last three decades.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/06/03/spoon-bending-at-the-university-of-alberta-bigfoot-skepticism/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @JHowardBrainMD and
In any event, I don’t criticize, say, Dr. Prasad because he concentrates on lack of rigor in clinical trials. Good for him! It’s important work, and it’s great that he figured out how to make an academic career out of it!
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Replying to @gorskon @JHowardBrainMD and
I do, however, wish he and those who agree with him more than us skeptics would lend those of us countering medical disinformation the same respect.
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