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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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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Michael Shermer

    This is an incredibly disappointing take. I’ve studied the Holocaust for a quarter century. The prelude to genocide is always demonization of the “other.” The Nazis could never have started, much less sustained, a campaign of persecution leading to genocide without it. 1/https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/1380974827595390979 …

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    Michael ShermerVerified account @michaelshermer
    I’m afraid I must dissent from the implications of this hypothesis of the cause of the Holocaust. Hateful words are not the problem since they’ve always been around & always will be. It’s actions, especially laws, that lead to genocide. Draw the line at actions/laws not words. https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1380948667553710081 …
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

        And how does one convince enough of the population that the “other” is an enemy who is a sufficient threat trust they must be crushed or even exterminated. 2/ https://time.com/5953263/holocaust-education-propaganda-history/ …pic.twitter.com/Lh16VftyzZ

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

        Every genocide starts this way. People don’t just decide one day to start persecuting/slaughtering their neighbors. It takes a lot to get them to do that. It took the Nazis several years even to get to Kristallnacht, and a couple more years plus war to get to the gas chambers. 3/

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      4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

        It took an unrelenting campaign of hate speech and demonization lasting years to lay the groundwork for the Holocaust. 4/

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      5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

        Mr. Shermer once did good work on the Holocaust and Holocaust denial. His book on Holocaust denial, Denying History, was excellent and inspired me. So why the disconnect? 5/

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      6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

        How could he have refuted Holocaust deniers two decades ago but not grasp the key role of hate speech and conspiracy theories (e.g., Germany would have won WWI if not for being “stabbed in the back” by Jews and Communists) in laying the groundwork? Puzzling. 6/

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      7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 10

        Maybe @deborahlipstadt or @AuschwitzMuseum can elaborate. Have you seen this take before? 7/7

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      1. Manuel J. Galvan‏ @SciSocialProbs Apr 10
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        Thanks for responding to this shockingly ill-informed take from @michaelshermer

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      1. Tim O'Connell‏ @Seiurus Apr 10
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        🤔 Wondering why a bad take from Shermer would be surprising. I'm more wondering how this bad a take could come from any relatively sentient, adult human? What are laws, if not words backed by threat of state-sponsored violence?

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      1. Kevin Kehres‏ @kevin_kehres Apr 10
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        Shermer has been .... disappointing .... for at least a decade.

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      1. Greg Shelley‏ @Ashamanic Apr 10
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        What does he think prompted the laws? Or by “implications” is he making a free speech argument?

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