🧵 on Dana Parish and Steven Phillips and their "charities"; A tale of social media, quackery, and the unhinged conspiracism on numerous topics that is embedded in it. Parish is a former patient of Phillips and says she suffered chronic lyme until she did her own diagnosis and found an ILADS doctor who instantly knew she had chronic lyme, a conditions her rheumatologist said didn't exist.

A lot of people have the misfortune of following @fitterhappierAJ
and while he often says things I agree with (like when he is responding to Monica Gandhi), he is mainly just playing a speculation game. 1/n The game works kinda like this.
1.) Read papers to generate somewhat scientific speculation.
2.) Give yourself credit when something at least seems to support it
3.) Rest knowing that few people understand the 'rules of evidence' in the domain of immunology
2/n

What will you do with a negative Abbott BinaxNOW result when you suspect COVID-19?

This test catches some infections and might be a net benefit but what if your test is negative? Will you be confident that your close contacts are safe? Maybe. Maybe not.
1/ BinaxNow is a rapid antigen test, giving a result in 20 minutes. That is its main selling point. Waiting for a PCR result to come back is not just a personal agony, but a threat to containment of transmission. A day of delay is a potential day the virus has had to spread. 2/

@TheAtlantic you've done it now. I've had to make a video about Vinay Prasad based solely on his online presence. @AtomsksSanakan @BlockedByVinay @JHowardBrainMD
Why focus on only the online presence? Why not read the papers he's published in the medical journals? The public do not read or necessarily have access to his research or have the right previous knowledge to judge it. I want to judge his science communication.