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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 26 Dec 2020

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Bettina Ryll

      This has little or nothing to do with it, as the antivaccine movement has long shown. Prominent members have access, either themselves or through sympathetic contacts. They’ve long used that access to cherry pick and misrepresent the science.https://twitter.com/BettinaRyll/status/1342921143116845061 …

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      Bettina Ryll @BettinaRyll
      Maybe this is actually one on us as scientific community. As long as we insist on publishing behind paywalls and in jargon so opaque our own spouses don't get it- how can we actually *expect* anyone outside our own narrow field to know what we are doing? https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1342868819036020737 …
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 26 Dec 2020

      Open access to primary research and cranks cherry picking or misrepresenting that primary research are separate issues, and, at the very least, more open access will not mitigate the problem of cranks with big blind spots because honest understanding is not what cranks are about.

      12:21 PM - 26 Dec 2020
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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 26 Dec 2020

          I’m all for more open access. I do not, however, expect it to decrease the severity of the problem we have with cranks that I described. If anything, it might make the problem worse by making it easier to cherry pick, a risk I’m willing to take.

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        2. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 26 Dec 2020
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          Cranks and deniers work backwards. They conclude their belief is true, based on little or no evidence, and then they look for anything that supports it. They aren't interested in an objective consideration of the literature, or in finding out facts.

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        3. Bettina Ryll‏ @BettinaRyll 26 Dec 2020
          Replying to @ktibus @gorskon

          That's just a perfect description of pseudoscience. Also called 'verification'- that's what we all did in the Middle Ages. Btw, it's not black and white- cherry-picking evidence happens everywhere...That's a good book on it btwhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pseudoscience …

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        1. Marcel (he/him)‏ @mjohnsonbooks 26 Dec 2020
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          Additionally, there are intentional strategies to suppress and create doubt around science when it conflicts with political goals

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