#sciencebasedmedicine — Public Fediverse posts
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"You never heard of [diseases] before 1989" - says some guy in charge of US HHS - https://youtu.be/uGo6xLLinjM?si=b_RuxA-kzg02OoUo #RFKJR #HHS #USHHS #VaccineConspiracies #CriticalThinking #ScienceBasedMedicine #quacks #quackery #RFK #SGU #SkepticsGuide #Science
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"You never heard of [diseases] before 1989" - says some guy in charge of US HHS - https://youtu.be/uGo6xLLinjM?si=b_RuxA-kzg02OoUo #RFKJR #HHS #USHHS #VaccineConspiracies #CriticalThinking #ScienceBasedMedicine #quacks #quackery #RFK #SGU #SkepticsGuide #Science
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Doctor Reacts To New US Vaccine Schedule - https://youtu.be/pJZvYeJvUnk?si=JS7cFHmzkuhjI-Kd #vaccines #DoctorMike #VaccineSchedule #USVaccineSchedule #MedicalMisinformation #AntiVaxxers #CriticalThinking #ScienceBasedMedicine
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Doctor Reacts To New US Vaccine Schedule - https://youtu.be/pJZvYeJvUnk?si=JS7cFHmzkuhjI-Kd #vaccines #DoctorMike #VaccineSchedule #USVaccineSchedule #MedicalMisinformation #AntiVaxxers #CriticalThinking #ScienceBasedMedicine
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#ScienceBasedMedicine can be read via scheduled downloads for #CalibreEBook :-)
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#ScienceBasedMedicine can be read via scheduled downloads for #CalibreEBook :-)
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/fda-official-youtube-videos?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other ““It’s really important to remember [#Prasad’s] past words in order to gauge his current and future credibility, and that was the mission of my YouTube channel, to record what these doctors [Prasad and others] said,” Howard said.
Although the videos Howard collected were often only viewed “dozens” of times, Howard included them in his online articles that appeared on the #ScienceBasedMedicine blog. Now those video links are dead. (1/2)
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I am a Private Citizen Seeking to Hold My Government Accountable. Dr. #VinayPrasad, a Government Doctor, Killed My YouTube Channel. | #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadlovescensorship/ “Dr. Prasad is a key leader of the #FDA. It’s his job to be open and transparent with the citizens he serves. And though he refuses to answer questions from journalists and skip meetings with the industry he regulates, he has enough free time to seek out and erase his videos from a barely visible #YouTube channel.”
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I am a Private Citizen Seeking to Hold My Government Accountable. Dr. #VinayPrasad, a Government Doctor, Killed My YouTube Channel. | #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadlovescensorship/ “Dr. Prasad is a key leader of the #FDA. It’s his job to be open and transparent with the citizens he serves. And though he refuses to answer questions from journalists and skip meetings with the industry he regulates, he has enough free time to seek out and erase his videos from a barely visible #YouTube channel.”
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@anathema_device
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The area of "traditional medicine" seems so enturbulated.
Differing cultural paradigms of reality, a continuum stretching from 'consumer goods and services' through 'health supplements' to 'commercialised medicine' to 'current standard medicine'.
And with #ScienceBasedMedicine competing with #EvidenceBasedMedicine (EBM sounded so good until 'Masks don't work' & the Cass Report). -
@anathema_device
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The area of "traditional medicine" seems so enturbulated.
Differing cultural paradigms of reality, a continuum stretching from 'consumer goods and services' through 'health supplements' to 'commercialised medicine' to 'current standard medicine'.
And with #ScienceBasedMedicine competing with #EvidenceBasedMedicine (EBM sounded so good until 'Masks don't work' & the Cass Report). -
They're trying to make sure it doesn't wear a mask or use gender support medicine?
World tag team Adjective-Medicine 2025 championships:
#EvidenceBasedMedicine & #PoliticisedMedicine
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They're trying to make sure it doesn't wear a mask or use gender support medicine?
World tag team Adjective-Medicine 2025 championships:
#EvidenceBasedMedicine & #PoliticisedMedicine
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#RFKJr. recommends weird chemical treatments from big business that just cover up symptoms, while ignoring a holistic process that boosts the immune system to prevent disease before it starts.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/bigsuppla
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#RFKJr. recommends weird chemical treatments from big business that just cover up symptoms, while ignoring a holistic process that boosts the immune system to prevent disease before it starts.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/bigsuppla
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Apple Cider Vinegar | Science-Based Medicine by Steven Novella
I just watched the new Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the story of Belle Gibson, an Australian woman who launched a wellness business based largely on the false claim that she had survived “terminal brain cancer”. It is worth a watch, and overall I feel the writers (this is a fictionalized version, not a documentary) captured the industry of fake cancer cures and their victims very well. I have some quibbles, which I will get to, but in the end the telling serves the viewer well.
The series focuses mainly on three young women, including Gibson and two fictional characters facing serious cancer diagnoses. Together they represent different aspects of the wellness industry, and specifically the industry of dubious cancer treatments. David Gorski actually captured this spectrum quite well in his article, True believers, entrepreneurs, and scammers in alternative medicine. All are represented in this show.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/apple-cider-vinegar/
#SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine #skepticism #wellness #scam #medicine #science
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Apple Cider Vinegar | Science-Based Medicine by Steven Novella
I just watched the new Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the story of Belle Gibson, an Australian woman who launched a wellness business based largely on the false claim that she had survived “terminal brain cancer”. It is worth a watch, and overall I feel the writers (this is a fictionalized version, not a documentary) captured the industry of fake cancer cures and their victims very well. I have some quibbles, which I will get to, but in the end the telling serves the viewer well.
The series focuses mainly on three young women, including Gibson and two fictional characters facing serious cancer diagnoses. Together they represent different aspects of the wellness industry, and specifically the industry of dubious cancer treatments. David Gorski actually captured this spectrum quite well in his article, True believers, entrepreneurs, and scammers in alternative medicine. All are represented in this show.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/apple-cider-vinegar/
#SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine #skepticism #wellness #scam #medicine #science
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Infectious disease doctor considers the likely effects of the "MAHA" (RFK destroys health care) movement:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-i-know-it-and-i-feel-fine/ -
Infectious disease doctor considers the likely effects of the "MAHA" (RFK destroys health care) movement:
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The Telepathy Tapes – More FC Pseudoscience | Science-Based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-telepathy-tapes-more-fc-pseudoscience/
#autism #facilitatedCommunication #skepticism #SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine
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The Telepathy Tapes – More FC Pseudoscience | Science-Based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-telepathy-tapes-more-fc-pseudoscience/
#autism #facilitatedCommunication #skepticism #SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine
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The Trashing of Science by Robert F Kennedy Jr | Science-Based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-trashing-of-science-by-robert-f-kennedy-jr/
#SBM #scienceBasedMedicine #RFK #vaccines #science #skepticism
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The Trashing of Science by Robert F Kennedy Jr | Science-Based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-trashing-of-science-by-robert-f-kennedy-jr/
#SBM #scienceBasedMedicine #RFK #vaccines #science #skepticism
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Suggested questions for Donald Trump’s health nominees during confirmation hearings | #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/suggested-questions-for-donald-trumps-health-nominees-during-confirmation-hearings/ “It won’t be long before we’re treated to the spectacle of Senators grilling antivax nominees like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS) and Dr. Dave Weldon (CDC). We exist to serve, which is why I’m suggesting some questions for Senators to ask all of Trump’s health picks.” Via @gorskon
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Suggested questions from @gorskon.bsky.social for Donald Trump’s health nominees during confirmation hearings | #sciencebasedmedicine | sciencebasedmedicine.org/suggested-qu...
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#ZDoggMD on #RFKJr.’s Rise: “I’m Talking About Like These #ScienceBasedMedicine Guys” https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/notourfault/ “No one faulted Dr. Damania for “talking to someone like a Vinay #Prasad.” I’d be happy to talk to Dr. Prasad about his pandemic pronouncements. Instead we faulted Dr. #Damania for praising, legitimizing, and amplifying someone like a Vinay Prasad. In contrast, we at #SBM accurately informed our readers that Dr. Prasad spread copious misinformation and repeatedly gushed over RFK Jr.”
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#RFKJr. is now an extinction-level threat to federal #publichealth programs and science-based health policy | #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-now-an-extinction-level-threat-to-federal-public-health-programs-and-science-based-health-policy/ “Over the last week it’s become very clear that, were RFK Jr. to be put in charge of the federal health apparatus, either as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) or in some “czar” role, it would be an extinction-level threat to science-based federal health policy, which would be replaced with pseudoscience, quackery, and conspiracy.”
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If RFK Jr. Turns the CDC Into An #AntiVaxx Propaganda Outfit, I Don’t Want To Hear a Peep From Some “Respectable” Doctors | #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/notapeep/ “#Disinformation agents like Mr. Kennedy purposefully confuse the public, robbing them of their ability to know truth from fiction. Doctors who feel people have the right to be informed about basic facts when it comes to their health, have no problem speaking out against Mr. Kennedy.
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Did you know? Homeopathy is bunkum.
It was developed by this German dude before we had the germ theory of disease. (Don't blame him - medicine sucked balls at the time. Like, way worse than now.)
Its theories violate the laws of physics.
"There has been mixed results from clinical studies of homeopathy, but a clear trend when all the evidence is reviewed — the better designed the study the less likely there is to be any effect, and the best designed studies are negative. Homeopathy, it turns out, is no more effective than placebo (an inactive treatment)." --Science-based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/homeopathy/Most homeopathic treatments are harmless because they're just sugar water. However, some have traces of active substances that can do harm. I once had a homeopathic remedy meant to sooth and cheer me up render me a confused, angry, irritable mess for a whole day. Just an anecdote, but hey, homeopaths love anecdotes. It was years ago, I don't recall the exact substance.
At least, unlike with chiropracty, you're unlikely to have your vertebra accidentally snapped.
Save your money! Don't buy into homeopathy.
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Did you know? Homeopathy is bunkum.
It was developed by this German dude before we had the germ theory of disease. (Don't blame him - medicine sucked balls at the time. Like, way worse than now.)
Its theories violate the laws of physics.
"There has been mixed results from clinical studies of homeopathy, but a clear trend when all the evidence is reviewed — the better designed the study the less likely there is to be any effect, and the best designed studies are negative. Homeopathy, it turns out, is no more effective than placebo (an inactive treatment)." --Science-based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/homeopathy/Most homeopathic treatments are harmless because they're just sugar water. However, some have traces of active substances that can do harm. I once had a homeopathic remedy meant to sooth and cheer me up render me a confused, angry, irritable mess for a whole day. Just an anecdote, but hey, homeopaths love anecdotes. It was years ago, I don't recall the exact substance.
At least, unlike with chiropracty, you're unlikely to have your vertebra accidentally snapped.
Save your money! Don't buy into homeopathy.
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#WeWantThemInfected Doctors Sanewashed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will He Reward Them With Appointments at the #CDC, #FDA, and #NIH? | #RFKJ #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/notadrill/ “Donald J. Trump plans to name his former rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, a one-time Democrat, as honorary co-chairs of a presidential transition team that will help him select the policies and personnel of any second Trump administration, according to a campaign senior adviser.
That’s terrifying.”
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#WeWantThemInfected Doctors Sanewashed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will He Reward Them With Appointments at the #CDC, #FDA, and #NIH? | #RFKJ #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/notadrill/ “Donald J. Trump plans to name his former rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, a one-time Democrat, as honorary co-chairs of a presidential transition team that will help him select the policies and personnel of any second Trump administration, according to a campaign senior adviser.
That’s terrifying.”
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What we know about treating Long COVID
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What we know about treating Long COVID
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A Phony Invitation for “Discussion and #Debate” | #ScienceBasedMedicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fakedebate/
A 2013 article but succinctly addresses the “why won’t they debate misinformerX?” false argument.
“A Phony Invitation for “Discussion and Debate”
Phony calls for “discussion and debate” about vaccinating children create the illusion that discussion and debate hasn’t already occurred.” #COVID #Vaccination #Pediatrics #Misinformation
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Science Based Medicine:
The Hypocrisy Is The Point. Doctors Who Said Not To Mix Politics & Medicine.
Hypocritical articles on politics and medicine weren’t really about politics and medicine, they were a message- the standards we set for you, don’t apply to us and everyone knows it.
by: Jonathan Howard
"Indeed, many We Want Them Infected doctors mixed politics and medicine openly and freely since the start of the pandemic. Scientists, namely Dr. Ioannidis himself, tried to influence politicians as early as March 2020, as Stephenie Lee documented in her article An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/thepoint/
#ScienceBasedMedicine #skepticism #COVID #hypocracy #conservative #politics #healthcare
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Science Based Medicine:
The Hypocrisy Is The Point. Doctors Who Said Not To Mix Politics & Medicine.
Hypocritical articles on politics and medicine weren’t really about politics and medicine, they were a message- the standards we set for you, don’t apply to us and everyone knows it.
by: Jonathan Howard
"Indeed, many We Want Them Infected doctors mixed politics and medicine openly and freely since the start of the pandemic. Scientists, namely Dr. Ioannidis himself, tried to influence politicians as early as March 2020, as Stephenie Lee documented in her article An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/thepoint/
#ScienceBasedMedicine #skepticism #COVID #hypocracy #conservative #politics #healthcare
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Donald Trump bragged that “right-to-try” has saved thousands of lives. It hasn’t.
"In other words, five years after its passage, right-to-try has been a spectacular failure. It does not do what its proponents claimed that it would do. It provides no advantage or benefit above and beyond what the FDA expanded access program provides in terms of letting seriously or terminally ill patients access promising investigational drugs not yet approved by the FDA. It is a sham, and a cruel one, as I’ve argued all along. The only “good” it might do is for unscrupulous companies that want to use it as a profit center or facilitate its use as a profit center. It is thus indeed fortunate that right-to-try has been such an abject failure thus far, as it could have been harming thousands of patients but thus far has not.
Unfortunately, should Trump be elected President again, the same forces that pushed for right-to-try want to “improve” it:
The slow uptake has led some of the law’s biggest proponents to call on Trump to expand upon the program in his first 100 days if he’s elected in November, likely reopening the debate into the FDA’s role in the oversight of access to experimental treatments. Right to Try supporters want Trump to encourage drug manufacturers to participate through incentives and benefits, and Trump’s campaign said he is open to changes to the law".
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/whatever-happened-to-right-to-try/
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Donald Trump bragged that “right-to-try” has saved thousands of lives. It hasn’t.
"In other words, five years after its passage, right-to-try has been a spectacular failure. It does not do what its proponents claimed that it would do. It provides no advantage or benefit above and beyond what the FDA expanded access program provides in terms of letting seriously or terminally ill patients access promising investigational drugs not yet approved by the FDA. It is a sham, and a cruel one, as I’ve argued all along. The only “good” it might do is for unscrupulous companies that want to use it as a profit center or facilitate its use as a profit center. It is thus indeed fortunate that right-to-try has been such an abject failure thus far, as it could have been harming thousands of patients but thus far has not.
Unfortunately, should Trump be elected President again, the same forces that pushed for right-to-try want to “improve” it:
The slow uptake has led some of the law’s biggest proponents to call on Trump to expand upon the program in his first 100 days if he’s elected in November, likely reopening the debate into the FDA’s role in the oversight of access to experimental treatments. Right to Try supporters want Trump to encourage drug manufacturers to participate through incentives and benefits, and Trump’s campaign said he is open to changes to the law".
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/whatever-happened-to-right-to-try/
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Maybe related;
I've found multiple groupings around #Homeopathy.#EvidenceBasedMedicine says (perhaps) "We need large RandomControlledTrails to determine it's efficacy".
#ScienceBasedMedicine want to reject it's use as it's claimed mechanism is entirely fanciful.
#Skeptics follow #SBM .
#Clinicians (some) see (some) good outcomes and don't care if they're #PlaceboEffect #Placebo or not.
#PleasedUsers get results they want.
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Maybe related;
I've found multiple groupings around #Homeopathy.#EvidenceBasedMedicine says (perhaps) "We need large RandomControlledTrails to determine it's efficacy".
#ScienceBasedMedicine want to reject it's use as it's claimed mechanism is entirely fanciful.
#Skeptics follow #SBM .
#Clinicians (some) see (some) good outcomes and don't care if they're #PlaceboEffect #Placebo or not.
#PleasedUsers get results they want.
#DisappointedUsers try but aren't satisfied. -
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There are academics / scientists who distinguish between #EBM #EvidenceBasedMedicine and #SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine.EBM seems to fetishise #RandomControlledTrails #RCTs as the #GoldStandard and has given us at least the #Cochrane review on #Masking by #TomJefferson.
And, I think, also the #CassReport into medical care for young transgender people. Here AIUI over relevant 700 studies were rejected on the basis that they weren't RCTs leaving 2 RTCs considered.
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There are academics / scientists who distinguish between #EBM #EvidenceBasedMedicine and #SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine.EBM seems to fetishise #RandomControlledTrails #RCTs as the #GoldStandard and has given us at least the #Cochrane review on #Masking by #TomJefferson.
And, I think, also the #CassReport into medical care for young transgender people. Here AIUI over relevant 700 studies were rejected on the basis that they weren't RCTs leaving 2 RTCs considered.
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@spamless OK, I did read it. The "Thailand Medical News" summary appears to be poorly AI-written.
I clicked through to the actual paper. The author gives credence to the long-refuted idea that SARS-CoV-2 is in vivo reverse-transcribed into DNA and incorporated into the genome. To repeat: this is known not to happen. Therefore, the author is a crank and to be ignored. I am mentioning @gorskon here because I read about this crankery first at #ScienceBasedMedicine.
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@spamless OK, I did read it. The "Thailand Medical News" summary appears to be poorly AI-written.
I clicked through to the actual paper. The author gives credence to the long-refuted idea that SARS-CoV-2 is in vivo reverse-transcribed into DNA and incorporated into the genome. To repeat: this is known not to happen. Therefore, the author is a crank and to be ignored. I am mentioning @gorskon here because I read about this crankery first at #ScienceBasedMedicine.
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When scientists have different takes on topics of public importance, universities should organize open and civilized debates to pursue the truth.” #ScienceBasedMedicine (2/2)
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@ChemicalEyeGuy @StopForTea "I have already voted for Evidence-based Medicine, which advocates a hard-nosed look at available evidence - as opposed to personal experience or conventional wisdom - when deciding on patient care."
Voted? Is there a mechanism for popular decision-making?
The Science-Based Medicine blog (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org) argues that EBM is failing for various reasons, notably methodolatry.
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@ChemicalEyeGuy @StopForTea "I have already voted for Evidence-based Medicine, which advocates a hard-nosed look at available evidence - as opposed to personal experience or conventional wisdom - when deciding on patient care."
Voted? Is there a mechanism for popular decision-making?
The Science-Based Medicine blog (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org) argues that EBM is failing for various reasons, notably methodolatry.
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I don't have a dog in this fight but the data for #ketamine for treatment resistant #depression are intriguing but not there yet.
A good recent two part review of the evidence:
https://therapeuticseducation.org/episode-558-from-hallucinations-to-healing-the-ketamine-evidence/
#bestsciencemedicinepodcast
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@mattotcha
As a #familyphysician , I'd love to try an #AI assistant to help look up information on diagnosis and management. Searching #uptodate #dynamed and #pubmed is very limited and too time consuming for some cases.
Searching on #clinicalkey or #tufts university's library is horribly ineffective most of the time
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All those false positives ("indidentalomas") from full body #MRI will get expensive workups and then follow up studies that will be paid by the rest of us via higher insurance premiums and taxes.
Get some data first please. Failing that, add a special tax on these to cover the extra workups upfront instead of socializing their false positive costs to everyone.
#medmastodon #costsofcare #radiology #evidencebasedmedicine #ebm #sbm #sciencebasedmedicine
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Contrary to what the "COVID-19 isn't a threat to children" contingent says, COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among children. Yet "not antivax" doctors continue, either unknowingly or knowingly, recycle old antivax tropes to argue against vaccinating children against this disease, writes @gorskon for #ScienceBasedMedicine. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-among-children-but-that-doesnt-stop-some-of-my-colleagues-from-arguing-against-vaccinating-them/
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https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/treating-nightmares-with-a-smart-watch/ Treating Nightmares with a Smart Watch #ptsd #veterans #ScienceBasedMedicine
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Last week, our founder Dr. Steven Novella discussed what the #sciencebasedmedicine blog has accomplished over the last 15 years. I’m going to discuss lessons learned, what has changed, and remaining huge challenges. Unfortunately, after the pandemic, our position in 2022 reminds me even more than ever of Aragorn at the Black Gate of Mordor, but that does not mean things are hopeless. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/after-15-years-of-sbm-lessons-learned-and-what-the-future-holds/
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After 15 years, what's the status of @sciencebasedmed? What's the difference between SBM and EBM? #sciencebasedmedicine #evidencebasedmedicine #SBM #EBM https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/15-years-of-sbm/