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.
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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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Replying to @gorskon @JHowardBrainMD and
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 @JHowardBrainMD @venkmurthy and
It’s my hobby, mainly because I’ve never been able to figure out a way to make a viable academic career out of it (and only have a couple of publications in the peer reviewed literature related to it). Few have. (
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That’s the issue, actually, the lack of value given to such investigations by academia.
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