Nice opening. Nice to see you too. Regarding your deflection, I respect your point. The problem however, is that Gorski's belligerence does more harm than good. It seems to me that that was the point of the tweet.
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That's an opinion I disagree with.
@gorkson,@SBMPediatrics ,@stevennovella ,@DrJenGunter are at the forefront of combating ignorance and pseudoscience in medicine. Psuedoscience, quackery, and snake oil salespeople harm, injure , and need to be called out aggressively.2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes -
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Should stuff that is truly quackery and snake oil be called out? Yes. If you think belligerence is required in order to do so, let's just agree that we're on a different page.
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Everyone's different. I'm glad to have them fighting this fight against the intrusion of pseudoscience into medicine. Like any team, teammates have different personalities! You'd probably like
@stevennovella more. Recommend@SkepticsGuide podcast! It'd be really good for you.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Like I said, some of them are doing a good job. Some of them could be valuable additions to the "solution team". Not sure if they'd want to make that shift, they seem pretty entrenched on the debunking side. Will watch for
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Shit need debunking, yo. But yes, debunking only one aspect of combatting stuff like TCM, homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, reiki, naturopathy, etc. Hope you like
@SkepticsGuide! My favourite science based podcast. And you can read@stevennovella @https://theness.com/neurologicablog/ …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Hopefully it's not more of the same "baby with the bathwater" stuff that is so prevalent with many of these debunkers. You know -- yo, we don't have solutions but this sounds like something we saw before so it must be bad. Quackery! Pseudoscience! You know the drill
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Science and the scientific process provides the mechanism to discover the solutions, when we don't have them. Quackery and pseudoscience are not defined by "we don't know, so let's call it that". TCM, Reiki, Homeopathy, etc They are quackery due to implausibility and evidence.
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Right, and the mechanism is to improve on research results. Pretty much everyone agrees that we need a tally of medical error that has better validity and reliability than Makary et al The question is whether denouncing it or if replacing it is a better use of resources
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Replying to @mloxton @kenjaques and
Denouncing it is fine, when its construct validity is so poor. It is not convincing evidence with thoughtful methodology. Makary et al was not a study that added data, it manipulated it, and it has severe error and completely implausible results. https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/26/5/423 …
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Denouncing it is juvenile and a waste of resources. Reusing or reinterpreting existing data is fine, just like meta analysis is fine. If we want a more valid and reliable number, then the course is quite obvious - publish a study that improves on Makary
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Replying to @mloxton @kenjaques and
So let me get this clear: A better study would use none of the methodology of Makary, because the methodology is flawed and cannot provide a good number, but until that study is done, we should use the results of that flawed methodology?
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That seems to be his argument. Luckily we can both point our it’s illogical AND have a better one.
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