David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon.bsky.social

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

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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.

Always wanted a game set in Auckland

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

JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:

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

People who push the idea that vaccinating pets against rabies is a scam should be hunted down like the monstrous vermin they are.

The Big Scam: Rabies Vaccination - Dogs Naturallywww.dogsnaturallymagazine.com Let's talk about the truth about required vaccinations, particularly the big scam around the rabies vaccination ... and keep your dog safe.

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

5/5 It turned out that Trump was right and I was a naive fool. Trump carried around Supreme Court justices in his pocket like so many nickels & dimes.

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Wait, is John Ioannidis still going? I thought he existed only in memory, as a cautionary tale on contrarionism!

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...

“‘Panel stacking”: John Ioannidis versus a Delphi consensus statement on COVID-19sciencebasedmedicine.org My former science idol John Ioannidis has published a paper citing a Delphi consensus statement on COVID-19 as evidence that the scientific community is "biased" against his anti-"lockdown" pro-virus ...

Antimaskers are such fine people.😬🤦🏻‍♂️🤬

"After Shari Stuart tried to explain that she has Stage 4 breast cancer and a weakened immune system, Stuart said the man called her a “f---ing liberal” and insisted masks were now illegal. He later coughed on her and said he hoped the cancer would kill her." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Masks are going from mandated to criminalized in some stateswww.washingtonpost.com Lawmakers in North Carolina and New York say mask bans in response to pro-Palestinian protests would not target medical mask wearing, but critics are skeptical.

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

i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans | Cornell Chroniclenews.cornell.edu Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.

Excellent! We got John P. Moore and @gregggonsalves.bsky.social to do a critique of those awful pieces on COVID19 and lab leak. Let's just say, it is not flattering. sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-is-the-n...

Why is The New York Times now promoting an anti-science agenda?sciencebasedmedicine.org This essay stems from concerns about two editorials published in The New York Times recently. We felt that they were problematic in that the past is viewed through a blurred prism to produce revisioni...

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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

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.

Reflexology used in the AI example in your Sequoia preview? This is not the way, Apple. www.apple.com/macos/macos-...

Yup. The appearance of expertise can be very persuasive.

Triple whammy of poor science communication here. Chan has clout as a PhD (though her expertise is not in virology/pandemics), amplified by space in the NYT, and influential NYT columnist Kristof then amplifies her. This is why the public thinks the "lab leak" evidence is stronger than it is.

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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/

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

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I am glad @gorskon.bsky.social takes the time to deconstruct the complete fiasco that was the NY Times op-ed on COVID origins this week. Kathleen Kingsbury, Patrick Healy & Times' columnists like Nick Kristof who amplified this nonsense should be ashamed. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/06/08/t...

The New York Times goes all in on "lab leak"www.respectfulinsolence.com Earlier this week, the New York Times op-ed page ran an article by Alina Chan rehashing lab leak conspiracy theories. WTF happened?

So that’s the reason I’m getting crankier.😂

it's not the aging itself that makes you grumpy as you get older. it's the way you have to scroll more and more for your birth year on any drop down menus.

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

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There is only one cartoon for today. 😂

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

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.

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

Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute has let his inner Alex Jones conspiracy freak flag fly high. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-ultimate...

The ultimate COVID-19 antivax conspiracy theory, courtesy of the Brownstone Institute and Jeffrey Tuckersciencebasedmedicine.org I've long argued that antivax beliefs, indeed all science denial, is conspiracy theory. Leave it to The Brownstone Institute's Jeffery Tucker to make my point better for me than I ever could. Of cours...

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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

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

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...

Senior-care referral site ‘A Place for Mom’ stays mum on neglectwww.washingtonpost.com In some states, more than a third of facilities recommended by the popular website have been cited for substandard care, The Washington Post found.

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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...

Trump vows to reverse transgender student protections ‘on day one’thehill.com Former President Trump said Friday he would roll back transgender student protections enacted last month by the Biden administration “on day one” of his presidency if he is reelected in November. T…

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

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.

Twitter Files blogger Paul Thacker is back in my 📥, wanting to speak to the manager. Here are bits from the latest bad faith inquiry from the bullshit industrial complex, shared to show how it works. He claims to have “whistleblower” docs showing I secretly run election ops for DoD This is a lie.