Doc Doxie

Cancer Immunologist | PhD | Black Autistic I Skeptic | Rubik Cube Aficionado | One Piece Enthusiast | Angela Bassett Stan | Ancestor in Training#BlackinSTEM

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@jwats716 The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong tonight lol. This is like a grad student trying to tell a tenured research professor how to write a grant. Haven’t even gotten to the starting line but trying to check people’s expertise.

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@jwats716 One of these days yall gonna get tired enough to stop giving him mics lol

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@jwats716 Every day…every space is the GAY agenda with these people. Obsession 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

Man this is amazing. When I studied metastatic melanoma people had months after diagnosis.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

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[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@truckasaurus83 This gotta be a troll 😩🤦🏾‍♂️

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@rodimusprime Yeah it’s JJK. Character is nobara kugisaki.

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@notcapnamerica Durand vocal agility and range is ridiculous. I didn’t think this would be a serious debate lol.

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

My mom owns a cleaning business. I never forgot the look she got from her client when she told her I got into a top five Ph.D. research program. Not an isolated event. Had two part time jobs, worked in a research lab, and near top of my class for undergrad. Racist don’t care🤷🏾‍♂️

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

One of the things I continue to find remarkable in this debate is how many people look at Black students scoring in the 95th percentile on the MCAT — often higher than the average matriculant at most American medical schools — and still conclude they were admitted “only because of race.”

These are objectively elite academic performers. Many scored higher than applicants admitted to excellent medical schools across the country.

And yet some people persist in speaking as though the mere existence of Black students at Yale is proof that standards collapsed and that unnamed “more deserving” Asian applicants were robbed.

At that point, the conversation is no longer about MCAT scores. It is about an inability to imagine that highly accomplished Black students belong in elite institutions.

What also fascinates me is how quickly social media pundits become absolute authorities on physician selection, while dismissing the judgment of admissions committees at institutions that have spent generations training world-class physicians and scientists.

Medicine is harder — and more human — than sorting percentiles on a spreadsheet.

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@drterrysimpson @RaveenTheDream My mom owns a cleaning business. I never forgot the look she got from her client when she told her I got into a top five Ph.D. research program. Not an isolated event. Had two part time jobs, worked in a research lab, and near top of my class for undergrad. Racist don’t care🤷🏾‍♂️

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@YounisJoseph Honestly think this app has the most rampant denial of evidence based research. Unfortunately I do see more laymen becoming aware b/c of “podcast bros” lack science literacy. What I take from it is grifters gonna grift.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

You were not called racist merely for disagreeing about admissions policy.

You were called racist because you repeatedly framed minority physicians as inherently “less qualified” based largely on statistical differences in standardized test scores while dismissing the substantial evidence that diverse physician workforces improve trust, access, preventive care, and outcomes.

And notice the sleight of hand you keep performing:
you convert “race may be one factor among many in holistic admissions” into “race alone replaces qualifications.”

That is not my argument. It is the caricature required to sustain yours.

Medical schools already evaluate applicants on dozens of dimensions beyond MCAT and GPA. They always have. Your outrage only appears when diversity becomes one of those considerations.

That is why this conversation keeps circling back to race whether you admit it or not.

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

The risk of Hantavirus causing a pandemic are very slim.

Not that it matters.

You guys aren't gonna take a vaccine or mask/social distance so why get worked up...

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@wheetz @NBCNews @PragObots I think they are just trying to drive traffic to the article. The contents are much more measured about its lack of contagiousness. The R0, or basic reproduction number, is still very low compared to more contagious virus's like COVID and measles.

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

You guys are really concerned about Hantavirus, a very inefficiently transferred virus that impacts less than 100 people per year.

But you're not concerned about Bird Flu, which is highly contagious and has already impacted millions of birds and mammals, and is positioned to jump to humans.

Or COVID, which killed millions.

The cognitive dissonance is breath taking...

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@notcapnamerica I had one. Loved that guy. Could never have more than one though, b/c that grooming bill adds up.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

No I don’t think so, usually hantaviruses are not as transmissible person-to-person as coronaviruses, but it’s another reminder of the risk of global infections emerging due to climate change, globalization, and why it’s reckless to defund @WHO @CDCgov

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@its1stclassCAM It’s interesting he thinks he can get back to these relationships like it’s gonna be business as usual. She wasn’t doing him any favors in this interview by coddling him.

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@jwats716 I need to know what incentives him to act this way. Has this routine rlly worked on a woman? 🤨

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@notcapnamerica Season 2 lost me. It was kinda boring for lack of better words.

[Doc Doxie @Doc_Doxie]

@SandyBro20th I think some uninformed black people are hoping the dissolution of VRC is gonna ultimately coordinate black pple to move in the interest of their specific issue. But I think for some black people like Clarence Thomas they think black people are at their best surviving adversity