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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 18 Dec 2020

      Science denialists and quacks love to abuse Koch's postulates to deny that various microorganisms are the true cause of disease; so it was inevitable (and no surprise) that they're doing it for #COVID19.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/12/18/quacks-misuse-kochs-postulates-to-deny-covid-19/ …

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

      It is amusing but also very depressing how quacks seem to think that the study of pathogens was frozen in amber at the end of the 19th century. They do so love to cite 19th century understanding of microbiology as the be-all and end-all of germ theory.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted James Root

      It’s not just germ theory deniers, either. Creationists often seem to think that evolutionary biology ceased to advance after Darwin.https://twitter.com/Rootiiij/status/1339991972828725249 …

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      James Root @Rootiiij
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      Reminds me of YEC cranks that seem to think dunking on Darwin will refute modern evolutionary theory.
      10:09 AM - 18 Dec 2020
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

          I wonder: Is there another scientific field like microbiology and evolution, in which denialist cranks think that if they can find mistakes or holes in 19th century (or even earlier) science the will discredit the entire field?

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

          D'oh! How could I have forgotten? How could I have failed to mention cancer research, given how there are people who think that the trophoblastic theory of cancer is still a thing? (It was abandoned nearly 100 years ago.)

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

          Then there's "autointoxication" theory, the idea that disease is caused by "self-toxicity" resulting from a backup of feces in the colon? 120 years ago, surgeons removed colons and dentists pulled all the teeth to "cure" mental illness...

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

          “Fallacy.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 😂🤦🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/DRk967kxeE pic.twitter.com/P50JHThy2r

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 18 Dec 2020

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          Meanwhile, they play the lamest game in the book when it’s pointed out that they came back up what they say.🤦🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/8ncFcsq4Jj 

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        1. George R.‏ @notincomunicado 18 Dec 2020
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          Yeah, that's one of my pet peeves about creationist "logic". They figure if they somehow "debunk" or personally discredit Darwin, that all of the last 161 years of evidence and research (in multiple scientific fields) will just magically vanish. It's so laughably simplistic.

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        1. Volvo Owner.Assigned Car At Birth #JKRowling rocks‏ @BluffKingHal 18 Dec 2020
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          I know a Muslim Creationist who said anyone can change Origin of Species but Allah preserves the Quran unchanged. He seemed to think OoS was Scripture. When Darwin wrote it, Mendelian genetics hadnt been discovered and of course is known to have some mistakes. It's not Holy Writ!

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        1. John Mashey‏ @JohnMashey 18 Dec 2020
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          Well, there are still flat-earthers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies … We did have this one in CA, flying his steam-powered rocket to prove Earth flat.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies …

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