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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.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Mark Hoofnagle

      It’s true. Most doctors like @ashishkjha labor under the information deficit model of combatting disinformation, the belief that good information will drive out bad. It won’t. 1/https://twitter.com/MarkHoofnagle/status/1331212746738765827 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Mark Hoofnagle @MarkHoofnagle
      Excellent essay but I worry @ashishkjha, like most doctors, is missing the point. It wasn’t partisanship he encountered but denialism. The problem isn’t solved by promoting science but deprogramming disinfo that exploits motivated reasoning. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/hydroxychloroquine-covid.html?smid=tw-share …
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

      I mean, seriously. Those of us who have been combatting, for example, antivaccine disinformation could have warned @ashishkjha what to expect. We’ve seen this movie before many, many times. What he encountered is an old, very effective tactic used by antivaxxers. 2/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

      This tactic dates back at least to when Rep. Dan Burton ran the House Oversight Committee. Burton was antivax and believed that mercury in vaccines caused autism. He used his position to hold hearings on this false claim. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/11/23/representative-dan-burtons-last-antivaccine-hurrah-is-scheduled-for-november-29/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          Burton would stack the hearing with antivax “experts” and parents who believed that vaccines caused their child’s autism, while calling @CDCgov officials to testify. They were basically there for theater, so that Burton could castigate them for “Ignoring the problem.” 4/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          In this particular committee hearing, @ashishkjha played the role of those poor @CDCgov officials back in Burton’s heyday, that of the token skeptic/scientist there to be the punching bag for conspiracy theorists on the committee. It’s not just antivaxxers, either, who do this.5/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          Again, none of this is new. The difference is only that @ashishkjha had never encountered it before. Nor have most doctors. Only a fairly tiny minority of doctors, scientists, and skeptics who have experience with disinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories, have. 6/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          Before the pandemic, for the most part our fellow physicians viewed what we did with a combination of bemusement and disdain, seeing it as, basically, a waste of time and intellectual firepower, as “dunking on a 7’ hoop,” as one famous oncologist put it a year ago. 7/

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          If there’s one potential good outcome of the #COVID19 pandemic, it’s that it’s opened the eyes of a lot of physicians to just how harmful medical disinformation and conspiracy theories are. 8/

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          Yes, doctors had some vague idea that medical disinformation was a problem, but they didn’t realize that it could result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people through the undermining of public health measures during a deadly pandemic. Now they do. 9/

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          Just knowing isn’t enough, though. What are they going to do about it? Will those of them who bravely go into the lions’ den unprepared learn from their experience? Will they reach out to people like @MarkHoofnagle and other skeptics? We can help. 10/

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          When the #COVID19 pandemic is finally under control, will they continue to use their new knowledge and skills to combat other forms of harmful pseudoscience? 11/

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 24 Nov 2020

          At least, will they stay out of the way of those of us who were doing this sort of work before COVID and who will continue to do it after #COVID19? Or will physicians, at least, stop disdainfully viewing what we do as “dunking on a 7’ hoop”? I hope so, but doubt it. 12/12

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