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David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon.bsky.social

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Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog. (He/him)

David Gorski, MD, PhD's avatar David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social
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Seriously, if we had the FDA that these people wanted, then the FDA would be massively cutting corners in the approval of ALL drugs and devices, if we had an FDA at all anymore. After all, some "free market" conservatives tell us that we don't need an FDA.

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"Free market," "freedumb" pushing groups amuse me with their hypocrisy. Before the pandemic, people in groups like @brownstoneinst were pushing "right to try" and all sorts of measures to weaken @US_FDA, but for #CovidVaccines they complain the FDA "cut corners."

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Oh, goody. Antivaxxers are now fear mongering about EVs in addition to vaccines.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD's avatar David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Just because you succeeded once is no guarantee that you will succeed this time. (Apropos of nothing in particular...)

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You can easily win this game by modeling your strategy on the Ilitch family strategy for developing downtown Detroit. After all, they’ve already won this game in real life.

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Kinda reminds me of the old days, when RFK would liken vaccines to the Holocaust a decade ago.

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Antivaxxers have long preyed not just on children, but animals too.

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Pretty frikkin’ naive. 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

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I was less naive than this but still petty frikkin’ naive.

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Peter Tennant's avatar Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social
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Wait, is John Ioannidis still going? I thought he existed only in memory, as a cautionary tale on contrarionism!

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Yes, 2002 was a typo. It was 2022.🤦🏻‍♂️

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Antimaskers are such fine people.😬🤦🏻‍♂️🤬

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I did not know that, but it tracks.

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John Ioannis and a band of Great Barrington Declaration advocates attack a 2002 Delphi consensus statement on COVID-19 as "stacked." Besides their dubious arguments, one can't help but note the lack of ideological diversity in their author list. sciencebasedmedicine.org/panel-stacki...

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What could be the explanation for this? What could it *possibly* be?

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Edith Charles 🏳️‍⚧️ 's avatar Edith Charles 🏳️‍⚧️ @edithcharles.bsky.social
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Reminiscing on one of my favourite posts of all time (11 years ago), best read in the "my name is gladiator" speech voice

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I’m fine with this.

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So I saw my first CyberTruck in the wild today in the hospital parking structure. It’s pretty ugly and smaller than I thought it would be.

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You know it won’t be, though.

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That review article is a matter class in calling lab leak a conspiracy theory without ever actually using the term “conspiracy theory.”

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David Gorski, MD, PhD's avatar David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social
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Yup. The appearance of expertise can be very persuasive.

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It could be, however, that I’ve been seeing bad lab leak science and conspiracy theories since early February 2020. I guess I just done feel the need anymore to say that, or at least not to emphasize it. sciencebasedmedicine.org/james-lyons-...

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Gonna disagree with you here on this one. There was a time when lab leak was a legitimate scientific hypothesis and not a conspiracy theory, but that time passed as long as three years ago.

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Her whole piece is basically unjustified self-congratulatory wankery and revisionist history. I was cringing hard as I read it. Basically, it’s an exercise in hindsight bias. As we like to say in medicine, the retrospectoscope is 100% accurate.

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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Open the NYTimes this AM. Kingsbury & her team have made the Alina Chan & Zeynep Tufecki pieces into front page news. Both stories are deeply flawed. I tried to go thru both quickly over the past few days and @kgandersen.bsky.social and @gorskon.bsky.social took the Chan piece apart in detail. 1/

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I guess today is as good a day as any to bask in more of the adulation of my fans.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD's avatar David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social
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So that’s the reason I’m getting crankier.😂

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I’ll take it…😂

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Today is yet another good day to bask in the adulation of my fans.😂

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Repeat 34 times.

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There is only one cartoon for today. 😂

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I'm seriously disappointed that my name isn't anywhere on this list of 91.

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As I kept saying and keep saying, this was always going to happen. "New school" anti-COVID vaccine antivaxxers are devolving into just antivaxxers, repeating very old antivax tropes, misinformation, and lies about, for example, SIDS and vaccines and vaccines causing autism.

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Coming back to work after a three-day holiday weekend is always a good time to bask in the adulation of my adoring fans.

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Jason O. Gilbert's avatar Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social
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NEW FEATURES TODAY Bluesky: DMs X: Neo-Nazis can now pay 6 Dogecoin to get any user’s home address Threads: Everyone is now automatically following Jake from State Farm

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I swear, some quacks manage to go lower and more bonkers than even I would've predicted.

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After some personal experience with a family member who had a stroke last year, this article doesn't surprise me in the least. A Place for Mom is a predatory business that collects commissions for placement from the faculties where they place seniors. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Scott Edelman's avatar Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social
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Donald Trump wants my friends to die. Voting for him is voting against human rights and those I care about. I beg you — don’t let this cruel, heartless criminal get back where he can do more damage. He’s already done enough. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

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Sillier than either.

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Space Babies is a *very* silly episode of Doctor Who indeed.

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Thacker gonna Thack; so it’s no surprise that he’s Thacking again. Given his misogyny, it’s no surprise that his target is a woman.

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