ScienceBasedMed

Science-Based Medicine is a group blog exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine

[ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed]

@sayerjigmi @RWMaloneMD Poor Sayer Ji. He's just parroting an old alternative medicine trope that quacks have long weaponized against pharmaceuticals and that @SecKennedy is now weaponizing against vaccines. https://t.co/Uop48Ft7xk

[ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed]

@sayerjigmi @RWMaloneMD Poor Sayer Ji. He's just parroting an old alternative medicine trope that quacks have long weaponized against pharmaceuticals and that @SecKennedy is now weaponizing against vaccines. https://t.co/Uop48Ft7xk

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

Seriously, though, shame on @bmj_latest/@bmj_company for having published @thackerpd's dishonest "journalism" on the @pfizer RCT of its #CovidVaccine. Former BMJ editor @fgodlee should be forever embarrassed for having published it./end https://t.co/bJJD0hXvBZ

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

OTOH, he has admitted one of his errors, grudgingly, as this screenshot shows. Amusingly, he is either oblivious that @AliNeitzelMD is obviously trolling him or intentionally ignoring the troll in order to feed his credulous readers a narrative that he's somehow "won."

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

An actual honest and ethical journalist would have added a note saying that he had altered the text to correct an error and explaining what the error had been. Of course, as a journalist @thackerpd appears to be neither honest nor ethical.

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

Well, @thackerpd is the conspiracy monger gift that keeps on giving. Today, I noticed that he had quietly altered the text to remove the error without mentioning that he was correcting an error. Here are the before-and-after screenshots.

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

Yesterday, I wrote about how @thackerpd had dishonestly smeared @AliNeitzelMD as somehow "not a physician." In my post, I noted that Thacker was so sloppy that he seemed to think that I reside in Wisconsin when my state of residence is Michigan. https://t.co/xdTD1ozFY9

[ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed]

Antivaxxer @stkirsch apparently wants to make like Dino and Luigi in a classic Monty Python sketch and threaten @TeWhatuOra with releasing protected health information from the stolen database that he has. https://t.co/NRAQGF8FfI

[(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi]

@OKAYFINE_Music @ScienceBasedMed @han_francis Imagining that the people correcting anti-vaccine misinformation are taking money from big Pharma to do it will not make anti-vaccine misinformation less wrong; just make you wrong on another thing.

I hope you read the post.

[(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi]

@OKAYFINE_Music @ScienceBasedMed @han_francis Again, wanting to imagine that the people correcting you are paid isn’t going to make you less wrong.
We took this picture in a public street to make fun of antivaccine shill claims. Maybe we should have realized people who fall for antivaccine misinformation won’t get this.

[Orac @oracknows]

While I'm at it, you might enjoy this post too. 😂 https://t.co/wMQ9OEiDGS

[Orac @oracknows]

You've commented exactly once on my blog, and I let it publish after my antispam automoderation had held it up because you were a new commenter. Here's the link. https://t.co/aw9mbePGWG

[Orac @oracknows]

I'm using a dormant and rarely (now) used account because my main one was blocked by Mr. Kirsch and I want him to see this: Dude, you were *never* blocked on my blog. Ever. Nor did I delete *any* attempt by you to comment on any of the posts I've written about you.

[Australian Skeptics @AustSkeptics]

No evidence IV vitamin drips can treat infertility https://t.co/LUoje19yKd by @PharmacistScott via @ScienceBasedMed

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

The hallmark of a good parody account is that I wasn't quite sure whether this was a parody until I clicked on the handle and checked to see if it was a parody account or not.

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

Holy hell. I'm having flashbacks to antivax 2006!

[(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi]

https://t.co/1s5HOaeWkh: Repackaging an old narrative about conventional medicine versus alternative medicine for #COVID19 https://t.co/njqzqKMrrj via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon

[(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi]

Retracted papers about #COVID19 are more highly cited than they should be, but not because they should not have been retracted; if anything, not enough bad papers are retracted. https://t.co/YllNk2RKQp via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

The latest big thing among all the hippest COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers is nattokinase, which is claimed to bust clots and "detox" spike protein. https://t.co/9Xr3ntFcVk

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

Precisely. And they don’t seem to realize that they are using *exactly* the same arguments antivaxxers used to use about measles and pertussis vaccines with respect to portraying a vaccine-preventable disease as “natural” and virtually “harmless” and the vaccine more dangerous.