David Gorski, MD, PhD
@gorskon.bsky.social
Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine and deconstructing quackery. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog (sciencebasedmedicine.org). X/Twitter & Threads: @gorskon. (He/him)
Not secret in the UK, I know, but little known in the US.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Not secret in the UK, I know, but little known in the US.
Let me just point out that I first wrote about Donald Trump saying this sort of thing in 2007. It is nothing new, and he's long been influenced by antivax narratives...
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Let me just point out that I first wrote about Donald Trump saying this sort of thing in 2007. It is nothing new, and he's long been influenced by antivax narratives...
Notice @ama-assn.org’s social media hashtag: #FightingForDocs. Not patients. Docs. The AMA is and has always been a trade organization lobbying to protect the economic interests of physicians, not patients.
July 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Notice @ama-assn.org’s social media hashtag: #FightingForDocs. Not patients. Docs. The AMA is and has always been a trade organization lobbying to protect the economic interests of physicians, not patients.
Just for yucks I asked ChatGPT to provide me his bibliography.
June 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Just for yucks I asked ChatGPT to provide me his bibliography.
Good on @ascocancer.bsky.social for hosting a talk emphasizing that gender-affirming care *is* healthcare and that surgeons and oncologists need to understand the issues behind it to provide optimal care.
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Good on @ascocancer.bsky.social for hosting a talk emphasizing that gender-affirming care *is* healthcare and that surgeons and oncologists need to understand the issues behind it to provide optimal care.
When antivaxxers say "informed consent," what they really mean is misinformed refusal." thebarbedwire.com/2025/03/07/m...
March 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When antivaxxers say "informed consent," what they really mean is misinformed refusal." thebarbedwire.com/2025/03/07/m...
Welp, Michael Shermer, besides having embraced transphobic conspiracy theories, now thinks that Jay Bhattacharya will be great for the NIH, apparently because he got along with him fabulously at a conference and didn't detect any evidence of him being a crank.
March 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Welp, Michael Shermer, besides having embraced transphobic conspiracy theories, now thinks that Jay Bhattacharya will be great for the NIH, apparently because he got along with him fabulously at a conference and didn't detect any evidence of him being a crank.
Here’s a FB post of a local Polish restaurant. Dammit, Trump, you said there’d be affordable eggs! I want my paczkis!
February 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here’s a FB post of a local Polish restaurant. Dammit, Trump, you said there’d be affordable eggs! I want my paczkis!
This is a very old antivax trope. Antivaxxers have even written a children’s book about it.
February 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is a very old antivax trope. Antivaxxers have even written a children’s book about it.
Yep. The only appropriate response to nonsense like god is…
February 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Yep. The only appropriate response to nonsense like god is…
Hmmmm. It is very, very tempting to try to sign up to review manuscripts for this “journal.”😈
February 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hmmmm. It is very, very tempting to try to sign up to review manuscripts for this “journal.”😈
Since Trump took office, I take my schadenfreude where I can get it, in this case antivaxxer lamenting Trump cozying up with Larry Ellison, who wants to use AI to design cancer vaccines.
January 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Since Trump took office, I take my schadenfreude where I can get it, in this case antivaxxer lamenting Trump cozying up with Larry Ellison, who wants to use AI to design cancer vaccines.
Go away, @linkedin.com. You’re drunk if you think this is the sort of ad I’d be interested in.😂
January 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Go away, @linkedin.com. You’re drunk if you think this is the sort of ad I’d be interested in.😂
For instance, the claims that vaccines “permanently alter your DNA long predate mRNA vaccines” and are just a modern variant based on newer science of old fears of vaccines turning you into a cow.
December 14, 2024 at 12:42 AM
For instance, the claims that vaccines “permanently alter your DNA long predate mRNA vaccines” and are just a modern variant based on newer science of old fears of vaccines turning you into a cow.
This has become a narrative that I've been seeing among conservative-leaning self-proclaimed science advocates.
November 30, 2024 at 3:56 PM
This has become a narrative that I've been seeing among conservative-leaning self-proclaimed science advocates.
So...repeal the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the FDA, passed in 1962 in the wake of the thalidomide scandal, that required the FDA to require high level evidence of efficacy as well as safety? Cool, cool, cool.
November 27, 2024 at 4:16 AM
So...repeal the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the FDA, passed in 1962 in the wake of the thalidomide scandal, that required the FDA to require high level evidence of efficacy as well as safety? Cool, cool, cool.
So...repeal the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the FDA Act, which were passed in 1962 in the wake of the thalidomide scandal? Cool, cool, cool...
November 27, 2024 at 3:55 AM
So...repeal the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the FDA Act, which were passed in 1962 in the wake of the thalidomide scandal? Cool, cool, cool...
So...repeal the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the FDA Act passed in 1962 in the wake of the thalidomide scandal? Cool, cool, cool.🤦🏻♂️
November 27, 2024 at 3:35 AM
So...repeal the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the FDA Act passed in 1962 in the wake of the thalidomide scandal? Cool, cool, cool.🤦🏻♂️
So our nominee for HHS Secretary founded an org that just published a fear mongering and conspiracy theory filled book like this. it should terrify you that someone whose organization publishes dreck like this will soon be in charge of all non-military federal health programs.
November 27, 2024 at 3:28 AM
So our nominee for HHS Secretary founded an org that just published a fear mongering and conspiracy theory filled book like this. it should terrify you that someone whose organization publishes dreck like this will soon be in charge of all non-military federal health programs.
Now that I'm here more, I should continue my tradition started on X, the hellsite formerly known as Twitter, of basking in the adulation of my fans.
November 26, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Now that I'm here more, I should continue my tradition started on X, the hellsite formerly known as Twitter, of basking in the adulation of my fans.
Wait, what? How’d I get to over 10K followers without my having noticed it until now?
November 24, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Wait, what? How’d I get to over 10K followers without my having noticed it until now?
Can’t sleep either, eh? Me neither. 😂
November 8, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Can’t sleep either, eh? Me neither. 😂
It just so happens that today was a light enough day for me that I was able to walk the mile from my cancer center to the Wayne State University main campus to see speak about what he thinks that freedom really is.
October 23, 2024 at 4:24 PM
It just so happens that today was a light enough day for me that I was able to walk the mile from my cancer center to the Wayne State University main campus to see speak about what he thinks that freedom really is.
I'm so sorry. I miss my girl, too. (It's been over a week since we had to say goodbye to her due to her incurable cancer.)
August 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
I'm so sorry. I miss my girl, too. (It's been over a week since we had to say goodbye to her due to her incurable cancer.)