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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 6 Mar 2018

      I used to think that there might be something to acupuncture. I really did. But the more I evaluated the evidence, the more underwhelmed I was. Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo, nothing more. Harriet Hall agrees.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/false-claims-for-acupuncture/ …

      27 replies 135 retweets 285 likes
    2. Panos Barlas‏ @DrPanosBarlas 6 Mar 2018

      No sir, listening to opinion that agrees with your life view is an easy way to a comfortable life. If you care, read credible peer review publications.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3.  🌂 ⚡️DrTangerine  🌈 🇪🇺 ✊‏ @tangerine_gl 6 Mar 2018
      Replying to @DrPanosBarlas @gorskon @EdzardErnst

      Well that publication may be peer reviewed but that doesn't not necessarily mean it's good quality (impact factor .8). Also please read up on problematic sham controls in acupuncture studies (nearly all of which were present in the studies included in this meta)...

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Panos Barlas‏ @DrPanosBarlas 6 Mar 2018
      Replying to @tangerine_gl @gorskon @EdzardErnst

      I'd like to think that I have spent enough time in sensory stimulation research to explore sham controls at length...it does not negate the fact that specific physiological effects do occur. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24322588  And the impact factor you quote beats the hell of any opinion...

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 6 Mar 2018
      Replying to @DrPanosBarlas @tangerine_gl @EdzardErnst

      You want to play that game? OK, I'll play. I realize IF ≠ quality, but you wanted this... Anesthesiology impact factor = 5.163 Nature Reviews Cancer impact factor = 37.147 Trends in Molecular Medicine impact factor = 10.732 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc3822 … http://www.cell.com/molecular-medicine/abstract/S1471-4914(14)00103-8 … 😂

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    6.  🌂 ⚡️DrTangerine  🌈 🇪🇺 ✊‏ @tangerine_gl 6 Mar 2018
      Replying to @gorskon @EdzardErnst

      Sure, but low IF journals are unfortunately full of journals that got rejected by peers from better ones (I stumbled upon some papers I reviewed, which were rejected, published in lower journals with not so much as a word changed...).

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    7. Maie Lynn Bee, PhD‏ @maie_lynn 6 Mar 2018
      Replying to @tangerine_gl @gorskon @EdzardErnst

      I reviewed a paper or a fairly high IF journal. It was absolute crap. I flat-out rejected it. Obviously I was over-ruled because it was accepted with a few changes. Last author was a pretty big deal...

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 6 Mar 2018
      Replying to @maie_lynn @tangerine_gl @EdzardErnst

      I reviewed a paper for Science I gave a horrible review, with lots of questions and requests for additional info. The senior author was a big name, and the paper was published. I didn't have the balls to outright reject it. I should have and made them publish it over my "No."

      8:51 AM - 6 Mar 2018
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