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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. Richard Dawkins‏Verified account @RichardDawkins Mar 6

      Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 7
      Replying to @RichardDawkins

      I am profoundly disappointed to see a scientist whom I once admired spouting such an ignorant take. It's not as though the concept of science as a social construct is new or even particularly controversial, nor does that concept invalidate the findings of science.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

      41 replies 28 retweets 646 likes
    3. Nuno Henrique Franco‏ @Nuno_H_Franco Mar 7
      Replying to @gorskon @RichardDawkins

      I agree this is a bad take, especially considering how great of a science communicator Dawkins usually is. He probably meant 'scientific facts', which even if we were to scrap all books today, we would eventually find again to be true. But Science is more than a body of knowledge

      2 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 7
      Replying to @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

      No, he meant science. Anti-woke ideology and criticisms of some science as being biased due to racism, misogyny, etc. have rotted his brain. I suspect he's posting this in response to transgender science.

      5:36 AM - 7 Mar 2021
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        2. Nuno Henrique Franco‏ @Nuno_H_Franco Mar 7
          Replying to @gorskon @RichardDawkins

          Too much of a stretch for me to make this interpretation, based on just the tweet. It *might* be the case that it refers to something else, but judging solely on what's on the tweet, I'm fine with it at face value (taking 'science' as meaning 'knowledge'). In any case:pic.twitter.com/3cnLk7v7OV

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 7
          Replying to @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

          Anyone who's so loose with language conflating "science" with "knowledge," as Dawkins did (if you are correct), needs an education in the philosophy of science.

          3 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
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        2. yslexdia‏ @yslexdia Mar 7
          Replying to @gorskon @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

          Disagree. I think you're reading his intentions wrong. "Science's truth"

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 7
          Replying to @yslexdia @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

          Context matters. I'm simply interpreting in the context of his history over the last few years.

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        2. Colby James M Smith‏ @cjamesms Mar 7
          Replying to @gorskon @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

          That's a big assumption for such a strong criticism

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        2. Phil‏ @willbillorphil Mar 7
          Replying to @gorskon @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

          Phil Retweeted Richard Dawkins

          Here you gohttps://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1368599737696452611 …

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          Richard DawkinsVerified account @RichardDawkins
          OBVIOUSLY by “science’s truths”, I meant the truths about the real world that science aspires to find, NOT scientists’ beliefs during any particular historical era – phlogiston, etc. My point was only that there’s such a thing as objective reality – denied by postmodern pseuds.
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        2. Luke‏ @SteadyPersonal Mar 8
          Replying to @gorskon @Nuno_H_Franco @RichardDawkins

          This whole thing confuses me. As a lot of people are saying there's a difference between hard facts and things that are still being studied or that are not completely agreed on. That's how I read the original tweet, but it also seems like a lot of the objections to this tweet

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        3. Luke‏ @SteadyPersonal Mar 8
          Replying to @SteadyPersonal @gorskon and

          are saying the same exact thing? Where's the disagreement here? Is it not reasonable to say that the current ongoing scientific studies are vulnerable to societal bias, just as they have always been in every civilisation that has ever existed? We're no different

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