#Quackery

Hacsi Horvath

givethemseeds

Q: Why does WPATH insist that if kids or adults claim to be "trans," they REALLY ARE "trans," and that psychotherapy is pointless?A: It's because WPATH slavishly follows the stupid

Fiona Quigley

FionaQuigs

Science, advocacy, and quackery in nutritional books: analysis of conflicting advice and purported claims of nutritional best-sellersTop 100 best-selling books identified & assessed for their claims. 1/6#Publichealth #SupportNotStigma h

Medlife Crisis (Rohin)

MedCrisis

A really interesting debate about *what* scientists and doctors with a public platform should be debunking.The disagreement: is it more worthwhile to debunk quackery or systemic problems in mainstream medicine?https://twitter.com/gorskon/st

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

I think civil discourse is great.However social media itself encourages outrage culture. Without a concerted effort by social media platforms to discourage this, outrage culture will continue.Thread1/n And responding to

Chhadmabeshi

MuChhadmabeshi

On #Ayurveda being called quackery. Of the 121 prescription drugs in use today for cancer treatment, 90 are derived from plants. At least 877 small-molecule drugs introduced worldwide between 1981

Yashar Ali 🐘

yashar

Madonna posted the video of Dr. Stella Immanuel, the physician who falsely stated that hydroxychloroquine is a cure for Covid-19 and that masks don’t help to reduce transmissionIn her caption,

(Cyriac) Abby Philips

drabbyphilips

1I followed @FitTuber advise and got all these #Ayurveda medicines which he outright claimed are '#safer', ''#effective' than conventional prescription drugs for day to day use. These will be tested

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

We have to deal with the Republicans before we can deal with the Russians. The GOP is actively at war against America.https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1353106833381068801 We need answers and justice.https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/statu

Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ

sankrant

Western medicine is not “evidence-based medicine.” It is authority-based medicine. It must be certified by the Church of medicine, a controlled ecosystem, to be valid.Anything not certified is “heresy” aka

Tracy King

tkingdot

A thread. Ten years ago, critical thinking peaked. The organised skepticism movement was successfully imported from USA to UK (mainly by me) and the UK media was getting pretty good

Sudhanwa Pathak

pathaksudh

There seems to be a vertical division among #medtwitterindia about Ayurveda. One group derides Ayurveda altogether, and jump to lable other modern practitioners as if they are endorses of quackery.

Dr. Om Lakhani, MD, DNB (ENDO)

omlakhani

This year I had decided NOT to start a fight on Twitter. But @RemaNagarajan you asked for it.A few years back I received several emails and phone calls from a

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

I love how @ChrisMasterjohn’s arguments for why RCTs are not necessary for health interventions is that RCTs are not used to make decisions in everyday life, so why should we

ProductBootcampTim

PostFactSojourn

Mainline conservatives have learned that you can endorse or quietly accept a person and advance their views without having to openly advance their views. Ellen's reasoning here is why they

I Am Disabled.

thespinsterymc

TW: Child abuse, child death.I’m having so many conflicting emotions about this story. While these parents are unequivocally abusive, I’m also not a fan of using incarceration to punish child

David Gorski, MD, PhD

gorskon

You should see what antivaxxers and cancer quacks routinely do and have done to me (and fellow science communicators) over the last 16 years. A recap:1.) I've had many complaints

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