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5 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Indeed. Worse, when this is pointed out to the doctors paddling with the current, inevitably they blame those of us trying to beat back against it for not doing science communication right, as if we are contributing to the river's flow. 1/
The doctors who prefer to rest rather than row have always been with us. Prepandemic, writing for @ScienceBasedMed, @drval coined the term "shruggie" to describe such doctors, most of whom just have a hard time believing how bad the misinformation is. 2/
Shruggies are bad enough, but at least they usually don't actively make things worse. Docs who start paddling with the flow of the river do. And then they blame those trying to stem the tide of misinformation for having "done science communication wrong." 3/3
I should have included what provoked this thread. 4/4
I also forgot to include the link to the @ScienceBasedMed post from 2008 by @drval introducing the term "shruggie." 5/5 sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-shruggie-awa…
And then there's this...🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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