David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon Twitter profile

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

3 years

RIP, Bailey. You were a very good boy. The best boy.1/

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

@JaeB_so_nasty Everyone is entitled to freedom of speech by right. However, freedom OF speech does NOT mean freedom FROM consequences due to exercising that freed of speech. You say things that endanger children, people WILL criticize you harshly, as well they should.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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No, @PeterHotez is not an expert "because he says so." He's an expert because his peers in his field recognize him as an expert based on his scholarship and contributions to that field. Dismissing legitimate expertise as "self-declared" is a common tactic used by cranks.

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The absolute refusal of self-declared 'experts' to ever debate anything has continually shocked me since March 2020. You aren't an expert because you say so. You are an expert when your ideas have been reality-tested in public.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 months

If I were a woman, I would view this as yet another of the advantages of being vaccinated.

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I don’t sleep with vaccinated women

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

You mean like HIV?🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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1 year

@MikeStuchbery_ @Cobratate @GretaThunberg I sense much...compensation...for a certain anatomical shortcoming here.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

10 months

THIS is how you do it! THIS is how you call out @RobertKennedyJr for his conspiracy mongering. Quote him over and over, don’t let him claim you’re lying, and keep hammering.

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@atrupar

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RFK Jr gets mad as Wasserman Schultz quotes a number of his outrageous comments

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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@elonmusk @StationCDRKelly You do realize that Anthony Fauci does not personally choose whose grant applications get funded, right? There's a whole process, with two levels of review, a study section consisting of expert scientists to score the grants and then a council to prioritize which ones are funded.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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2 years

If a virus can rapidly evolve to evade preexisting immunity due to a vaccine, then it can also evolve to evade preexisting immunity due to a prior infection. It is magical thinking to believe otherwise.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

This particular slogan has always amused me. There’s no one who’s more about grievance and hurt feelings than @realDonaldTrump and his supporters.

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@alexnazaryan

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“Trump 2020: Fuck Your Feelings”

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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5 years

@gillibrandny @SenCoryGardner As a cancer doctor, I find this a horrifically bad idea that won't anything to decrease opioid abuse. What it will do, in contrast, is to make the lives of chronic pain sufferers much worse and make it MUCH harder for their doctors to take care of them. WTF were you thinking?

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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3 years

This is not a violation of HIPAA, which only applies to doctors, nurses, hospitals/clinics, pharmacies, health insurance, etc. Greene doesn't have to answer, but to use the claim that asking the question is a violation of HIPAA as an excuse reveals the depths of her ignorance.

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Question: Have you yourself been vaccinated? Greene: Your first question is a violation of my HIPAA rights

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

@NYPDShea NYC has one of the most extensive networks of surveillance cameras in the world. Show us the video of who left those bricks there. There’s a high probability that such video exists.

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@elonmusk @StationCDRKelly Basically, institute and center directors at the NIH are more or less rubber stamps for funding recommendations made by the study sections and advisory councils; yet you make it sound as though Fauci personally doled out money. You don't know how the NIH works.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

7 years

How convenient. So, basically, @realDonaldTrump is laying the ground to delegitimize any bad news about his administration as “fake news.”

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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@jacksonhinklle Funny how it's always "respect the troops" until any of the troops are LGBTQ+; then it's vile disrespect like this.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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5 years

@VP Stop lying. Late term abortion is rare and not infanticide. You and the @GOP liars pushing this false narrative are cynical, awful human beings.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

11 months

Don’t do it, @PeterHotez . Debating a disinformation specialist like @RobertKennedyJr in a venue where the moderator is clearly biased against you is a fool’s errand. He’ll be able to firehose and Gish gallop to his heart’s content, and no matter what happens will declare victory.

Joe Rogan

@joerogan

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Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is “misinformation” I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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1 year

@Doctor_Eric_B @drdrew But not unexpected. As I said elsewhere, either Dr. Drew doesn't know about commotio cordis, in which case he is incompetent, or he does know, in which case he is a liar. Take your pick.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

@realDonaldTrump Oh, believe me, I can’t wait to vote you out of office.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

11 months

So. Many. Paid. Blue. Checks. Blocked. Yesterday. It was glorious. Thanks, @elonmusk , for making it so easy to identify the worst trolls on your hellsite.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

11 months

I’d take it from the guy who didn’t use steroids to get jacked.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

Eric Burlison

@EricBurlison

11 months

Who would you rather get health advice from? @PeterHotez or @joerogan ?

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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5 years

@JaeB_so_nasty Also, this is one of the largest ratios I've ever seen. 😉

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

1 year

@StationCDRKelly @elonmusk What I don't understand is: Why the vitriol from Musk? Using the correct pronoun is such an easy ask. It takes so little effort to honor it. Yet Musk and his fellow transphobes treat it as some sort of existential threat. Why?

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

3 years

@LeaderMcConnell You mean like the way you refused to give President Obama's SCOTUS nominee a hearing because "it was too close to the 2016 election" and then rammed through Trump's appointment a month before the 2020 election? Now THAT drained consent and comity out of the institution!🙄

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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7 years

@Mike_P_Williams @realDonaldTrump President Obama was black. If he posted such a vid @realDonaldTrump supporters would call it thuggish and stupid, because, you know, black.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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6 years

@SenateMajLdr Says the hypocrite who made up a rule to steal a Supreme Court nomination from President Obama. Seriously, how do you live with yourself?

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

4 years

pH of over 22?😂😂😂

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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@Mike_P_Williams @realDonaldTrump Of course President Obama would never be this crass. He has more class in his pinkie fingernail than @realDonaldTrump has in his whole body.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

@Liz_Cheney @AOC Do us a favor and learn the definition of "concentration camp," because that's exactly what the US is running on its southern border. "Concentration camp" ≠ "death camp." Lots more nations than just Nazi Germany have used concentration camps.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

4 years

@LetitiaMontana That was *exactly* the correct response to protect hospital patients and staff. Buh-bye!

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

4 years

@NPR This is, of course, utterly unethical human experimentation.😡

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

1 year

@0xHustler @elonmusk A 14-year-old would come up with less obvious time-worn and downright stupid science denial tropes that I’ve heard a million times before over the last quarter century.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

Given all the badness in the world, I'm going to intersperse my Twitter rants about quackery and Donald Trump with cute pictures and videos of the 3 week old puppies my wife and I are fostering. You're welcome.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

@gillibrandny @SenCoryGardner Last year, the State of Michigan implemented a similar law. It's a disaster. It makes it harder for doctors to adequately treat patients' pain and hugely inconveniences patients. It's a horrible law. It's done nothing thus far to decrease opioid abuse.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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8 months

“I trust my immune system” is the single dumbest, most ignorant antivax trope there is. (I realize there’s a lot of competition.) A vaccine is needed for certain diseases precisely because many people’s immune systems can’t handle that disease.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

@jonathanstea

8 months

Anyone who downplays the propaganda of the anti-vaccine movement is either not paying attention or has been bamboozled.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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5 years

@IvankaTrump Comparing your father to Thomas Jefferson is particularly brain dead.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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6 months

Sadly, @elonmusk doesn't know WTF he is talking about here. He has internalized outright misinformation based on an debate that occurred among ICU docs early in the pandemic over early vs. late intubation in #COVID19 -induced pulmonary failure and is now spewing it to millions.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

@VigilantFox

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Ventilators Were a Death Sentence COVID Patients: This Was Known Early On, and They Kept Going Anyway @ElonMusk told @JoeRogan , "This [ventilators] is actually what is damaging the lungs, not COVID. It's the treatment. The cure is worse than the disease." Dr. Mercola calls this…

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

I love it when random Twitter folk lecture me about how awesome #Hydroxychloroquine is for treating #COVID19 and tell me, an MD/PhD who’s been studying the matter, that I don't know what I'm talking about.🙄

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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5 years

@TomiLahren Delete your account, you horrible person.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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1 year

@SteveFranssen One of tweet responses: 1. I’ll take “Things that never happened” for $1000, Ken, or… 2. If this happened so many times, you might be the problem.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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1 year

I keep telling you, sooner or later, anti- #CovidVaccines almost inevitably leads to just plain antivaccine.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

11 months

Once again, @RobertKennedyJr has resurrected the deceptive antivax claim that most childhood #vaccines have never been tested in randomized controlled trials with #Saline #placebo control to portray vaccines as unsafe (or at least as inadequately tested).

RFK Jr. resurrects an old antivax half-truth about “saline placebos” in randomized controlled...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has resurrected the antivax claim that the childhood vaccine schedule has never been tested in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with a saline placebo controls (and therefore...

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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2 years

@willchamberlain This is targeted harassment based on speculation. Delete your account.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

This is an excellent additional deconstruction of that awful #COVID19 hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin study by Didier Raoult. I've not changed my mind. This study goes beyond incompetence into the realm of likely scientific fraud.

Chloroquine genius Didier Raoult to save the world from COVID-19

As COVID19 pandemic rages on, French microbiologist Didier Raoult offers a cure. President Trump is convinced, but is Raoult’s research reliable, here and in general?

forbetterscience.com

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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4 years

@tkag2020_ann @McDonalds Someone this nervous and paranoid, who freaks out over a problem with her order at McDonald's, should not be a police officer.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

3 years

Seeing a frozen meat company drag @neiltyson for intellectually sloppy thinking is not something you see every day. Worse for NGT, the frozen meat company is correct.

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@steak_umm

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the irony of neil’s tweet is that by framing science itself as “true” he’s influencing people to be more skeptical of it in a time of unprecedented misinformation. science is an ever refining process to find truth, not a dogma. no matter his intent, this message isn’t helpful

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I can’t stop thinking of all the people who died in red states because of the efforts of antimaskers and antivaxxers and the craven politicians who are actively discouraging I'm really angry at all of the adults who don't see how evil this is. How can I co-exist w/ them?

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@AConcernedPare2

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I can't stop thinking about all the 5 year olds living in blue areas who will be forced to get a vaccine they don't need and then will be forced to keep masking indefinitely anyway. I'm really angry at all of the adults who don't see how evil this is. How can I co-exist w/ them?

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He's so very, very close, but doesn't realize how close he is to understanding. Yes, all of these should be free, paid for through universal health coverage.

healthbot

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@ksorbs Xenophobic and racist much, Kevin? In actuality, the countries these people come from tend to have vaccination rates as high or higher than we do in the US. You're doing nothing more than parroting the old and shameful racist lie about immigrants bringing disease. Despicable.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

This particular lie infuriates me. One more time. I'm a breast cancer surgeon. Abortion does not cause or predispose to breast cancer. We have copious evidence supporting this conclusion.

Jennifer Gunter

@DrJenGunter

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The American Association of Pro Life OB/GYNs should also be banned from @facebook if they are on there. They spread the lies connecting abortion with breast cancer and mental health issues.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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2 years

At least some old rockers support science, a nice counterpoint to their contemporaries who went antivax, like Eric Clapton and Van Morrison.

Graham Nash Slams RFK Jr. for Using His Song in Anti-Vax Rally Video

Graham Nash has slammed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for using his song "Chicago" in a promo video for the anti-vax rally set in Washington, D.C.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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This meme epitomizes the intellectual dishonesty of the "debate me bros" calling for "debates" with scientists.

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@ASFleischman

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No, homeopathy evokes hostility from skeptics because it is one of the most ridiculous forms of quackery ever conceived by the human mind.

Evidence based Medicine

@DrNancyMalik

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Homeopathy evokes hostility from its skeptics because they cannot digest its success in curing acute, chronic and epidemic diseases @drg1985 @jagrru1 @kenoftedal #autism #cease #actuallyautistic

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@realDonaldTrump You've been President for two and a half years, and you're telling us America isn't great again yet, as you promised? Didn't you say you'd make American great again right away? If you succeeded, why should you have to say it now? Clearly, by your own admission, you're a failure.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

7 years

Methinks @realDonaldTrump doth protest too much. Maybe he thinks if he keeps repeating this it will become true.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Don't believe the main stream (fake news) media.The White House is running VERY WELL. I inherited a MESS and am in the process of fixing it.

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I can’t argue with this one. I also can’t wait to see antivaxxers lose their mind over this award.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

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BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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Having unwillingly undergone a five week intensive exposure to "gender critical" arguments, I've concluded that a disturbing number of them boil down to taking "Ew, trans people ick me out" and cranking that feeling up to, "Trans people are an abomination against nature/God/etc."

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@SarahHuckabee "I stand for freedom" = "I don't care how many people die as long as I and my privileged supporters are not inconvenienced."

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

It won't cure your cancer either.

Beverly Kune ND

@WholeSelfHeal

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Want to know what distinguishes naturopathic medicine from traditional medicine? It seeks to do no harm. You can best appreciate this when you consider the harmful effects of chemotherapy. Naturopathy will not increase your risk of further health issues.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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Funny how antivaccine activists dismiss the possibility of death due to measles (~1 in 1,000) as being of little or no consequence; yet, a one in a million chance of severe reactions to a vaccine is completely unacceptable to them.

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@SpeakerMcCarthy Funny how you say this when @GOP is doing its damnedest to prevent parents of trans adolescents from accessing medically indicated gender-affirming care that they consider appropriate for their children. Basically you’re for “parental rights” only when you agree with the parents.

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2 years

The cruelty is the point. The Chief Justice should have made Gorsuch, not Sotomayor, participate remotely.

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

2 years

Nina Totenberg reports that (1) the Chief Justice asked his colleagues to mask up out of respect for Sotomayor’s health concerns, (2) only Gorsuch refused, and (3) his refusal forced Sotomayor to participate in arguments and conference remotely.

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@RudyGiuliani What happened to you? I lived in NJ during 9/11, not far from NYC You impressed the hell out of me with your leadership in the aftermath of that attack on America. Yet now you're spewing hateful and, truth be told, utterly stupid nonsense. Have you no shame, sir?

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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This is breathtakingly stupid and ignorant, even for Aaron Rodgers, and that's saying something.

The Intellectualist

@highbrow_nobrow

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Aaron Rodgers falsely suggests that Dr. Fauci created HIV with the help of the U.S. government. @keithedwards

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@Liz_Cheney @AOC I know, I know, it's far easier for @Liz_Cheney to take advantage of Americans' misunderstanding of history and what concentration camps are to rant that @AOC is saying the US government is running death camps. That doesn't change the fact that we are running concentration camps.

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Contrary to what the “ #COVID19 isn’t a threat to children” contingent says, COVID-19 is now a leading cause of death among children and the number one infectious disease killer of kids.

COVID-19 is now a leading killer of children

Contrary to what the "COVID-19 isn't a threat to children" contingent says, COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among children.

www.respectfulinsolence.com

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I’m thankful that @thebadstats watched @joerogan ’s interview with @RobertKennedyJr and dissected all his old school antivax BS so that I don’t have to suffer through it.

bad_stats 🕜💵🖨️🕣

@thebadstats

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1/ I watched Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Joe Rogan yesterday and it gave me an opportunity to look into some of the "old-school" antivax claims. First Joe Rogan let's us know that he used to think RFK Jr. was "kinda loony", but now he's a true believer in RFK's antivax claims.

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@realDonaldTrump Please stop whining. It's so embarrassing that our President, the most privileged and powerful man in the country, whines so much about EVERYTHING.

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OK, this cracked me up. Let's just put it this way. If you can't find anything in the peer-reviewed medical literature to support your antivax views, maybe you should reassess those views.

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This is even worse than I'd feared when I wrote my posts about whether we can trust the FDA and CDC any more.

NYT Politics

@nytpolitics

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In a stunning declaration of authority, Alex Azar, the health secretary, barred the nation’s health agencies, including the FDA, from signing any new rules regarding the nation’s foods, medicines, medical devices and other products, including vaccines

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@YossiGestetner @realDonaldTrump @TeamTrump @Scavino45 That wasn’t "admitting that Russian interference was a joke." Nice try, though.

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I could repeat it several times a day, and I still wouldn't be repeating it too often: Antivaccine doctors, especially antivaccine pediatricians, should lose their medical licenses.

Vincent Iannelli, MD

@AboutPediatrics

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This New York pediatrician has been publicly urging parents not to vaccinate their children in the midst of a measles outbreak. Why is he still allowed to practice medicine? #SoMeDocs #medtwitter

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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Sorry, @JessicaBiel may have the right to freedom of speech, but freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences due to exercising that right. If she's going to advocate antivax views that endanger our children, she should expect pushback, especially as a celebrity.

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Jessica Biel is getting bashed, hated & “cancelled” because she doesn’t believe in vaccinations... This toxic outrage behavior shouldn’t be acceptable. It’s disgusting. It’s okay to have different beliefs. Repeat. ITS. OKAY. TO. HAVE. DIFFERENT. BELIEFS.

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@GOP So, basically what you're saying is that @JoeBiden is listening to the concerns of teachers about whether reopening schools is safe or not and you and @realDonaldTrump are just forging ahead with reopening schools whether it's safe or not to do so. Got it.🙄🤦‍♂️

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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@tonyposnanski @Morning_Joe @JoeNBC Or a President whose signature move at his campaign rallies has been to encourage the crowds to chant "Lock her up!" about his political opponent.

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A paper suggesting that smokers were significantly less likely than nonsmokers to contract #COVID19 has been retracted because the authors failed to disclose financial ties to … the tobacco industry. D'oh!

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Clever misdirection here. First, RFK Jr. undeniably *did* compare the vaccine program and childhood vaccine mandates to death camps and the Holocaust in 2015.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

11 months

The two main lies that Corporate Media cites to make me look crazy are that I am antivaccine and that I compare the Covid mandates to the Holocaust. Thank you @nypost @LJMoynihan for letting me clarify that I’m not an anti-vaxxer. #Kennedy24

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Actually, thalidomide was not FDA-approved before these children were born. Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who had been assigned to review the application by the drug's manufacturer, wasn't convinced that the safety data were adequate and held the line. 1/

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A normal leader would take stock of a month that went this bad & think, “Maybe I should make some course corrections.” Not @realdonaldtrump .

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@jordanbpeterson Other than that it doesn’t include the 20th or 21st centuries? Didn’t you even bother to read the X-axis?🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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4 years

@realDonaldTrump Viruses don’t have nationalities, and the virus is replicating plenty good right here in the good old USA.🙄

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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2 years

All quackery leads to antivax eventually.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

4 years

It amuses me how commenters defending antivaxxer Judy Mikovits after this post about that #PlandemicDocumentary clip take me to task by saying, “She says she’s not antivax.” They must think the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

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@henryfarrell Hmmm. As someone with a @BankofAmerica account I have to wonder if maybe I should be moving my money to a bank that at least requires a viable business plan before financing an acquisition.🤦🏻‍♂️

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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@realDonaldTrump Seriously? This idiocy again? You know who also portrayed the press as the "enemy of the people"? Hitler and pretty much every despot before managing to crush a Free press and bring the press under state control.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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Tech bro turned antivaxxer @stkirsch threatened to dox and sue pseudonymous influencer @DrCanuckMD , completing his journey to the Dark Side of antivax as a litigious bully.

Steve Kirsch uses doxxing and the threat of a libel suit to silence Dr. Canuck

Tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch threatens to dox and sue Dr. Jonathan E. Canuck, becoming a litigious bully.

www.respectfulinsolence.com

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

7 years

After all, @realdonaldtrump can never admit that maybe he isn’t doing an absolutely stellar job as president thus far.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

6 months

Actually, it does because it protects against a number of diseases, antivax appeals to personal incredulity and exaggerated images notwithstanding.🙄

Natalie Ferrell

@Natalie24278613

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@doritmi @gorskon This cannot make any human healthier

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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5 years

@WalshFreedom Based on what CBP officers wrote about her on that closed Facebook group, I can't say she was wrong. Neither can you.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

3 years

@RepFischbach There is no "moving on" without accountability.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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1 year

I do like to point out every so often that, yes, in 2023 there are people who still deny germ theory. They've existed since Pasteur, and germ theory denial is intimately entwined with alternative medicine and antivax ideology.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

4 years

This is one of the most awesome photos ever!

Image of mice fighting over crumbs on subway platform wins top wildlife photography award

The mice were running toward small piles of food when the rodents started to brawl.

www.cbsnews.com

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

@MaxBoot @PostOpinions You left out from @AOC 's statement: "It’s absolutely important. And whenever I make a mistake. I say, 'Okay, this was clumsy,' and then I restate what my point was. But it’s -- it’s not the same thing as -- as the president lying about immigrants. It’s not the same thing at all."

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

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When I see a Blue Check now, I immediately know there's a 99% likelihood that it's a crank, quack, antivaxxer, and/or conspiracy theorist. But I repeat myself...

Dom Morgan

@DomMorganFL

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@gorskon When I see PhD, I immediately know it’s a totalitarian, elitist quack

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

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@Annearkist1 @NerdPyle @marceloclaure A good warning. You can *never* assume that you'll be healthy or live long enough to put off life for later. You might waste your youth and never get the chance take advantage of having "saved it for later."

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

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@DjDonnellon @elonmusk @StationCDRKelly You do realize that the grant funding process leaves a long paper trail, complete with reviewers, reviews, advisory council meetings, etc., right? Just because you don't know how the process works doesn't mean it's opaque.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

@MaxBoot I'd respond that a white man isn't always the best judge of whether another white man is racist, particularly if that other white man is a friend.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

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@SenTedCruz If that's the case, why is it that by far the majority of deaths due to political violence in this country are due to right wing violence (fascists and neo-Nazis) than left wing? Antifa doesn’t even register in the statistics. It's not even close. Yet you rant about antifa.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 years

@MaxBoot "Many Trump voters, to be sure, aren’t racists." There was a time when I believed that, but no more. If you still support Trump in 2019, after two and a half years of his racist tirades and policies, sorry, but yes you're racist.

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