Public health advocate. PhD Biomedical Eng. Information security professional. Teach @fanshwecollege.
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Oct 29, 2019 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
There seems to be a recent trend of self-important Twitter personalities attempting to devalue the work of people who challenge popular pseudoscience. These arguments are either ignorant or lacking sufficient nuance. Please take a moment to listen to my story. 1/
I went deep into the pseudoscience rabbit hole several years ago during my PhD. It wasn't a particular interest of mine at the time, but a colleague of mine alerted me to a popular local health guru selling fake cancer treatments to a large audience of patients and the public. 2/
Mar 4, 2019 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
Regardless of her mental capacity, Dena Churchill is not an outlier; there are chiropractors across Canada who share the same misinformation and put the public at risk. In fact, Dena Churchill wrote a book chapter for the current Vice President of Ontario's regulatory College. 1/
That's right, Liz Anderson-Peacock (@drlizap) - the current Vice President of the College of Chiropractors of Ontario - sells a book with a chapter contributed by prolific anti-vax chiropractor Dena Churchill who discusses the chiropractic "Universal Intelligence" woo. 2/
