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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. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @NitaGhei @JohnStossel

      None of this is a good argument that libertarian ideas are responsible for this.🙄

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    2. Nita Ghei PhD, JD, Migraine-BOT‏ @NitaGhei Apr 28
      Replying to @gorskon @JohnStossel

      Libertarian ideas are what? There is a spectrum. And we might well be talking past each other. People often think AnCap when they say libertarian. Pretty sure that isn’t what Stossel means. He is not hard core. But increasing the space for peaceful and voluntary exchange is good.

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    3. Adrian Egli‏ @Adrian7745 Apr 28
      Replying to @NitaGhei @gorskon @JohnStossel

      So we are to just ignore the American libertarian embrace of Mises (the crank of praxeology), Hayek & Rothbard ideology going for decades? FFS, Stossel is barking the same crap as the Mises foundation. 🤦‍♂️https://mises.org/wire/defense-gilded-age …

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @Adrian7745 @NitaGhei @JohnStossel

      For my part, libertarians lost me when they declared war on @US_FDA and started making the BS argument that the FDA is "killing people" by being too slow to approve new drugs. And it IS a BS argument. From six years ago:https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/10/28/ebola-right-to-try-laws-and-placebo-legislation/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @gorskon @Adrian7745 and

      Then, of course, there's the way that, even before the pandemic, antivax views had found a cosy home among libertarians, such that libertarians who aren't antivaccine ended up getting attacked if they expressed support for vaccine mandates.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/12/18/why-are-antivaccinationists-so-at-home-with-libertarianism/ …

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    6. Nita Ghei PhD, JD, Migraine-BOT‏ @NitaGhei Apr 28
      Replying to @gorskon @Adrian7745 and

      The vax question is a hard one, philosophically. It’s actually a big split in the movement. I am not a big L libertarian. I vax, and fully support vaccination. Forcibly vaxing someone is a violation of NAP; but so is that that person shedding virus. So, I don’t know ?

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @NitaGhei @Adrian7745 and

      It's more than the vaccine question. Libertarians have gone so far as to claim that @US_FDA is unnecessary and that drug safety and effectiveness can be evaluated using an @Uber or @Yelp for drugs.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-vs-the-fda-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-of-the-loosening-of-drug-approval-standards/ …

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @gorskon @NitaGhei and

      Others go further and make the bonkers claim that the FDA is "killing more people than it saves" through too slow and bureaucratic drug approval. Besides the unfounded assumption that faster drug approval will save more lives, the FDA is actually faster than, for example, the EU.

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    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @gorskon @NitaGhei and

      There might have been some merit to such an argument 35 years ago, during the early part of the AIDS epidemic, but now? Not so much. If anything, drug approval standards have gone too far in the other direction and are too lax.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-versus-the-fda-part-2/ …

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    10. Nita Ghei PhD, JD, Migraine-BOT‏ @NitaGhei Apr 28
      Replying to @gorskon @Adrian7745 and

      As an intractable migraine patient I beg to differ. Chronic pain patients have been shafted by the FDA and CDC. We would be better off with a right to try.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
      Replying to @NitaGhei @Adrian7745 and

      #RightToTry was (and is) a "foot in the door" to taking away @US_FDA's power to require efficacy before approving drugs. It was dreamt up by the quackery-loving @CancerCenter and then pushed by @GoldwaterInst, neither of whom made any secret of the true intent.

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Apr 28
          Replying to @gorskon @NitaGhei and

          Basically, #RightToTry used the terminally ill as cannon fodder in the free market fundamentalist libertarian war against the FDA to make the world safe for health grift.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/06/22/as-i-predicted-the-exploitation-of-patients-under-right-to-try-begins/ …

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        3. Adrian Egli‏ @Adrian7745 Apr 28
          Replying to @gorskon @NitaGhei and

          Pay $300K to 'try' a drug that's a dud. 🤦‍♂️ This really hit bad- "There’s little evidence that ALS patients, especially those with advanced disease, will benefit ... In BrainStorm’s Phase 2 study, NurOwn was unable to slow the progression of ALS compared with a placebo."pic.twitter.com/Aswij8Texx

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