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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.

Michigan, USA
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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 11

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dorothy Dent

    Would that that were actually the case! What about food and water? Those are interventions. What about activity or exercise? That’s an intervention. Without those “interventions” You can bet that even the healthiest body won’t stay healthy for long. 1/https://twitter.com/organicdot/status/1378714424526049284 …

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    Dorothy Dent @organicdot
    Replying to @Kathmarval @KayVonPaul and 46 others
    Healthy bodies need no intervention to be and stay healthy.
    7:23 AM - 11 Apr 2021
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 11

        Without the “intervention” of vaccines, even “healthy” bodies can be sickened by infectious disease and even die. Remember the influenza pandemic of 1918? That flu tended to kill the youngest and “healthiest.” 2/

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 11

        Dorothy’s attitude is quite emblematic of how quacks view nature, though. The body is “perfect” and needs no “unnatural” intervention to remain healthy. Yet, even if we avoid disease, we still all grow old, lose that health, and eventually die. THAT’s nature! 3/

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      4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 11

        It’s also emblematic of how quacks victim blame and shame. Always under their appeal to the “natural” is the idea that of you’re sick it’s your own fault for not eating the right foods, living the right lifestyle, doing the right things. 4/4

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      5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 11

        Also, it can also serve as a “just-so” narrative. If you die from an infectious disease or come down with another malady, then, previous appearances aside, you must not have been truly “healthy.” 5/5

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      2. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle Apr 11
        Replying to @gorskon

        It’s a tempting belief. It was when I was in medschool lifting with my buddy who had like 3% body fat, ate healthy, ran 50 miles/week. Didnt drink smoke or anything, he was a monk, but told me he developed essential hypertension and I was like “woah”. Yeah. Can happen to anyone.

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      3. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle Apr 11
        Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon

        In that moment you realize how much we blame the victims of disease that when an “innocent” is struck you are shocked. I had to re-evaluate my priors.

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      1. JuliaMAppleton she/her‏ @JuliaMAppleton Apr 12
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        Never seen a more white hot rage than an organic vegan marathon runner with breast cancer.

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      1. Christine Sutherland‏ @LifeworksGroup Apr 13
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        Being active and having good nutrition optimises health regardless of health status - people with chronic conditions tend to do better. Some illnesses can be prevented or reversed (eg some cases of diabetes). But neither can be regarded as medicine. People get sick anyway.

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