Pediatric/newborn hospitalist (views my own), contributor to Science-Based Medicine. Born on the bayou, just not yesterday. #NSNNNsciencebasedmedicine.org Boston adjacentJoined July 2018
After thousands of young people died of Covid, prominent doctors here told them not to fear death.
Since they don’t think death is a big deal, should we listen to their opinions on vaccine side effects, or really anything at all?
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/literaldeath-2/
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1/ Two years ago today, on 4/25/22, Twitter’s Board accepted Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at $54.20/share.
As an ex-director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve watched what Musk has done since then.
And today is my last post on this platform.
I’m leaving.
🧵>>>
If you ever worry that you have too much faith in our ability to weed out the nonsense in medical science, and to prevent parents from being fooled by said nonsense, just read about kinesiology taping babies.
Northern Exposure is a good show, but it is definitely a product of the early 90s. Some episodes are extremely racist and homophobic. Season 3 episode 21 adds disgusting misogyny.
The main character goes to a medical conference hoping to hook up with a pediatrician and says:
“It’s the only NMIBC therapy that rhymes with my last name, and that’s important to me and my fans.”
Nogapendekin spokesperson Mandy Patinkin https://t.co/l53aBloSxc
A silly article that takes abject pseudoscience seriously and equates it with the psychological construct of “grounding” as if they are even remotely similar. There is some good information in here but still just embarrassing stuff from the old CC.
A silly article that takes abject pseudoscience seriously and equates it with the psychological construct of “grounding” as if they are even remotely similar. There is some good information in here but still just embarrassing stuff from the old CC.
Yes. Anyone genuinely committed to *evidence-based* research knows you can't just go around demanding subject-blinded randomised controlled trials of everything: there's stacks of evidence that in some situations it's not a valid method.
Standard example is the 1980s AZT trials,
Yes. Anyone genuinely committed to *evidence-based* research knows you can't just go around demanding subject-blinded randomised controlled trials of everything: there's stacks of evidence that in some situations it's not a valid method.
Standard example is the 1980s AZT trials,
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