PhD in Professional Alarmism. “America’s Favorite Nutritionist”, childhood nickname “The Alarm BelI; sold useless breast milk Test$; Parody of a Parody Account.
PhDing Principles of Public Health
📍SHAME😳
📍BLAME😡
📍ALARM🚨
📍Hot Takes 🔔 are more effective than “Nuanced Takes” 😴
📍Make it Political🤯
📍DESTROY Political Opponents💀
(Or at least not so subtly wish 🦠🤒 on any who mock you)
📍Remember.❤️
We’re ALL in this Together❗️
I've never been at a medical conference where the results have been greeted with a standing ovation
Tremendous breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment
Through science
Hard work, rigorous research, clinical trials.
Science
Not the quack pseudoscience of social media
Oh man, I would love this- I’m a huge Cosmo Jarvis fan. I think Jarvis is excellent in Shōgun & he’s also perhaps the best performance in last year’s Warfare, which I just wrote about yesterday. This dude can really act- I think his ceiling is as high as any young actor out there
I am an elitist when it comes to medicine, research, and training. The amusing part of this argument is that it quietly depends on the very system it is attacking.
“Science is being democratized” sounds noble right up until someone’s appendix ruptures, their child develops meningitis, or they arrive in septic shock. At that moment, people stop searching for “scientific communicators” and start searching for the most rigorously trained clinician in the building.
No serious physician believes a prescription pad itself is proof of wisdom. The prescription pad is simply one small consequence of surviving a brutally difficult educational and clinical process designed to separate confidence from competence.
And yes, medicine changes. Constantly. Physicians know this better than anyone because we are forced to retrain our thinking over and over as evidence evolves. That is precisely what evidence-based medicine is: a system built around correcting itself when data overturns prior beliefs.
What is being “democratized” online is often not science, but confidence. A microphone, a supplement code, a podcast studio, and a large following can now create the illusion of expertise without the burden of accountability. If a physician is wrong, patients can be harmed, lawsuits happen, licenses are reviewed, hospitals intervene, peers scrutinize the decision. When an influencer is wrong, they usually just upload another video.
Clinical experience is not infallible. Of course not. But neither is reading abstracts without context, misunderstanding statistics, confusing mechanism for outcomes, or mistaking contrarianism for insight.
The irony is that the same people mocking “authority” almost always cite studies they themselves lack the training to critically interpret in full clinical context. Or incomplete training.
Medicine should absolutely be questioned. That is how science advances. But there is an enormous difference between skepticism and performative anti-establishment posturing masquerading as intellectual courage.
A prescription pad is not critical thinking. Neither is a ring light.
@PatsyDiabetes Are you wearing a surgical mask….and you’re claiming you’re THAT concerned about a …(checks notes)…”double pandemic”
🙄
Spare us your “Outrage”
@tonyver45@DrNeilStone Correct.
It’s a grift.
They are TELLING you it’s a Grift when the first thing you see on their site is that they sell supplements.