I spend a *good* time of my life teaching patients how to reach scientific articles. After *how to find them and how to access them*. And those are the motivated ones- if you got a #Melanoma killing you, learning Science isn't that scary.
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Replying to @BettinaRyll @gorskon
So, no, Science isn't widely available let alone accessible. It's not because *trained* people know where to find it- it's were *everyone* knows how to find it. You know what google throws up wrt Science???
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Replying to @BettinaRyll @gorskon
I shall spare you the rant on jargon- and stupid medical jokes 'don't mix up my degree
blah' but if we don't teach people how to search and help them find real information, IMO we got no right to complain about people not knowing. WE MADE SURE THEY DIDN'T FIND US.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BettinaRyll
Again, we are talking about two very different things here.
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Replying to @gorskon
You cannot expect a magnificently educated population the day you need them to be educated. Without putting in the serious background work? Surely you agree there is no short-cut to knowledge....unfortunately.
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Replying to @BettinaRyll @gorskon
And as I'm at it- this anti-vaxxer talk is just now better. Labelling everyone who is worried about a new vaccine 'anti-vaxx' is just
. Vaccines are drugs. Drugs come with benefits and risks. That's why we got pharmacovigilance experts- those worriers about drug safety.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BettinaRyll
Good thing, then, that that’s not what I do—or anyone else I know. I’ve spent a whole lot of time and verbiage on how to identify antivaxxers, how to distinguish them from the vaccine averse or concerned, and how to approach each. You’re attacking a straw man.
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Replying to @gorskon
I just think we should drop the TERM all together. Because, frankly, if you were not watchful about a first vaccine against a corona virus ever with a new MOA that got trialled and approved in record speed then I'd think you just didn't understand much about drug development....
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Replying to @BettinaRyll
I’m not going to drop a term that accurately describes a movement. That’s EXACTLY what real antivaxxers want and would be a major victory for them.
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Replying to @gorskon @BettinaRyll
As for me not knowing much about drug development...

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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD
Here’s a recent thread on antivaxxers.https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1339670094625042444 …
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Replying to @gorskon @BettinaRyll
One aspect I'm interested in is how our ability to adjust and change according to evidence is peddled as a weakness by deniers, because they see at as a way of saying "You were wrong about X, how do you know you are right about this"? 1/2
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I see this as an opportunity to reach the people who aren't deniers or cranks but are just misled. We can demonstrate we only hold ideas as long as the evidence supports them, we aren't afraid of moving forward or being wrong, and the deniers etc are stuck on ideas etc
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