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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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted kill 🇵🇸 tim 🇵🇸 faust
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
Cringeworthy edits that are embarrassing for subject. But asking as someone w/o a Wikipedia pg: is it bad for a person to add updates to their pg? I can see this issue for many academics who don't have wide recognition. If anything, maybe shows his profile doesn't warrant a page?
It’s mostly that he’s really bragging on himself and going back to childhood to do so. But no, if anything is wrong with your profile or you could expand data for it, I don’t think anyone would notice or mind.
Yeah, he brings a lot on himself and his "brand" he tries too hard to cultivate, but the opening details seemed rather benign. But that latter stuff, omg. Reading that, I can only imagine how that manifests in faculty mtgs and committee assignments.
As I said, I think it explains a lot about his disdain for skeptics who deal with antivax lies and alternative medicine. After being a gunner ever since at least junior high, he voted such topics as beneath him.
For those not familiar with medical school lingo, a gunner who is overly ambitious and driven to the point where he studies incessantly because only the highest grades will do and then makes sure everyone knows about those grades.
Gunners also have a tendency to throw other students under the bus and make life miserable for any student whom they perceive as a threat to their own success. We even have cartoons about gunners.
Oops. Forgot the cartoons.pic.twitter.com/vzpfYBuJCT
Basically, Dr. Prasad shows every sign of having been a gunner.
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