Doc Bastard

I'm no one too special, just a regular trauma surgeon trying to save the world one idiot at a time. Evidence or it didn't happen.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

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@Mudiakingsley I hesitate to even imagine. She’s clearly aligned with RFK, and the destruction he’s wrought so far is immeasurable.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

There are thousands of physicians who would be qualified to be the US Surgeon General, so of course Donald Trump nominated Casey Means, someone who is uniquely unqualified to treat anyone, let alone EVERYONE in the country. My thoughts: https://t.co/ICWGZGiuIS

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

Behold the anti-vax evangelist.

When you contradict their mythology of COVID, they do not debate — they declare.
When you say you were there, they accuse you of lying.
When you describe hallways lined with ventilators and refrigerated trucks behind hospitals, they reply with a video of an empty clinic lobby taken at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday.
Each move is deliberate. Each designed to plant doubt.
You bring data — randomized trials, excess mortality curves, ICU capacity graphs — and they inform you that the data are fabricated. You explain how ventilators are used, and they insist you never understood them. You describe surge staffing, proning teams, tracheostomies at 2 a.m., and they counter with TikTok clips of nurses dancing for 20 seconds between codes.

The performance is the point.

They operate in a closed epistemology. If hospitals were full, it was staged.
If they were not full in a viral lull, the pandemic was fake.
If vaccines reduced admissions, the decline was natural immunity.
If admissions rose before vaccines, it was hospital fraud.
No outcome falsifies the belief. Every outcome confirms it.

This is not skepticism. It is theology.

Show them excess deaths — conspiracy.
Show them ICU occupancy — manipulated.
Show them randomized vaccine trials — rigged.
Show them global replication — coordinated fraud.
Meanwhile, they will tell you they know how to run a ventilator, despite never adjusting PEEP in refractory hypoxemia. They will mock exhausted nurses for dancing as a coping mechanism and then, in the next breath, deny the very surge conditions that made coping necessary.
They deny the fire while criticizing the smoke.
And here is the final absurdity:
They insist hospitals were empty — until the vaccine arrived. Then they insist vaccines didn’t work. The contradiction does not trouble them, because coherence was never the objective. Conversion was.
Doubt is their currency. Outrage is their marketing strategy. Certainty is their costume.

Science revises.
Medicine adapts.
Data accumulates.

But conspiracism calcifies.
And so we arrive here — where those who have never held pressure on a crashing patient accuse those who did of inventing the crash.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

@Angelsfeartogo @NicHulscher That “paper” was retracted, much to the surprise of no one. https://t.co/BaoUyOlkJe

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@AppleHelix Yes I do. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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This aged either really poorly or absolutely perfectly. I can’t decide.

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If RFK gets his way, pretty soon “thoughts and prayers” will be all we have left to fight infectious diseases.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

@doritmi Thanks, Dorit.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

Hey everyone, I still remember how to write, so I wrote something about vaccines in case anyone is still interested in silly things like facts. https://t.co/zIJYhO9gCl

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@SharpeRich94006 @jonathanstea

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@fooktheother @Fading_Meesh @jonathanstea That was very sneaky of nutrition, clean water, sanitation, and better housing to wait until just after the vaccines were introduced.

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@Scaramouche_no1 @jonathanstea That was very sneaky of clean water and sanitation to wait until just after the vaccines were developed. Amazing.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

For those of you keeping score, this is the guy who wants to Make Polio Great Again.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

A @nytimes reporter asked me, “Are you working on federal vaccine policy under an official role, such as lobbying, appointment or other authority?”

I responded: “The work our firm has done for nearly a decade, interacting with HHS and its agencies, including writing letters, petitions, and suing these agencies on behalf of our clients, remains the same. The New York Times’ disregard for objectivity regarding the products at issue and for the grievous harm they cause to some children remains the same as well.”

Unsurprisingly, NYTs did not publish my response. The truth stings.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

@sanjay_world @DrSuneelDhand And what “junk science” is that exactly?

Be specific.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

That’s how most jobs work - you get paid more for doing more.

Meanwhile you sell unregulated and unproven supplements whilst criticising doctors who are taking care of patients. YOU, sir, are the problem.

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

@GottaBeDrD You deny that the medical establishment makes more money from more patient volume/procedures/meds?

#perverseincentives

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

If RFK gets his way, pretty soon “thoughts and prayers” will be all we have left to fight infectious diseases.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

@sanjay_world @DrSuneelDhand To protect my family from anti-science activists who would seek to do them harm. That isn’t a difficult concept to grasp.

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@HaDMaP_LLC I’ve spent a lot longer than that listening to him. If you really want to know the cause of autism, it’s organic food.

And if you believe that, then there are plenty of other correlations that also don’t equal causation.

[Doc Bastard @DocBastard]

@HaDMaP_LLC You seem entirely confused. No one ever said natural immunity isn’t real, only that you have to survive the illness to get it. And anyone who said ivermectin is only for animals was lying. The rest is pure transphobia that I will ignore with alacrity.

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@HaDMaP_LLC What a fascinating take. I assume you have some evidence that 95% of doctors around the world do this and are only interested in money, and that vaccines are “poisoning” children.

I’ll wait.

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@CpnpDan The incentive shouldn’t be profit, especially to the tune of billions per year at the expense of patients. The incentive should be to help treat/cure disease.

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As it turns out, these 2 things can be true simultaneously:
1) For-profit pharma and insurance companies are evil.
2) Doctors are doing the best they can to take care of people within this broken system.

Oh, & doctors who sell supplements & “detox kits” are in the former group.

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@Angelsfeartogo @amuse Absolutely not. While it may be somewhat amusing, it neither concerns nor affects me.