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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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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Sheena  🧙‍♀️ 🧹 🌘 ⭐️

      Sastra disappoints me. Does she remember the *rationale* used by Mark and David Geier for treating autistic children with Lupron? If she did, she might not have made such a cringeworthy comment.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️ 1/https://twitter.com/S_h_e_e_n_a_/status/1412108030313914370 …

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      Sheena  🧙‍♀️ 🧹 🌘 ⭐️ @S_h_e_e_n_a_
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @ScienceBasedMed @AbigailShrier
      Should say I found it via a comment on Evolution is True. pic.twitter.com/MDyQRDxvB2
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

      Let's review a bit. The Geiers' rationale for using Lupron to treat autism in boys was twofold. First, they viewed autistic boys as having precocious puberty, even though that is a rare condition. 2/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

      That's just bad science. Here's the pseudoscience. Their rationale was that "testosterone sheets" bind the mercury from vaccines that supposedly causes autism, preventing chelation therapy from working to remove the mercury from the brain. I kid you not.3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/04/10/the-geiers-try-to-patent-chemi/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

          It didn't matter to them that there was no convincing scientific evidence that chelation therapy does anything to help the behavioral symptoms of autism or that mercury in vaccines causes autism. 4/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

          Similarly, there was no physiological evidence that testosterone in any way binds mercury in the body, much less makes it inaccessible to chelation therapy. 5/

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

          In fact, the Geiers based their concept of “testosterone sheets” on a paper from 1968 looking at the crystal structure of testosterone and mercuric chloride derived from crystals made by boiling equimolar amounts of testosterone and mercuric chloride in hot benzene. 6/

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

          Let's just say that these conditions are far from physiologic. Even so, the Geiers speculated that testosterone binds mercury and that lowering testosterone would free up the mercury for chelation, even though there was no evidence for this concept. 7/ https://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/03/miscellaneous-mercury-nonsense.html …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 5

          THAT was the "scientific basis" for the Geiers' Lupron therapy for autism. It was pure pseudoscience. Can anyone say, "False equivalence"? Sure, I knew you could. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️8/8

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