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Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog. (He/him.) Also at https://t.co/2LecwK3CP9.

11 books
Book Cover for: Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?, Neil Z. Miller

Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?

Neil Z. Miller
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

Since #COVID19, in the antivax world everything old is new again. That’s right, Gary S. Goldman and Neil Z. Miller are back to defend their 2011 infant mortality “study” and RFK Jr. is flogging it as slam-dunk “evidence” that vaccines kill babies. https://t.co/5zbkT8y6Di

Paperback, 2015

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy, Jack Handey

Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy

Jack Handey
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

Geez. Now he's beome a low rent science version of Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts."🙄 https://t.co/3GmvJ17YFd

Paperback, 1993

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

@19joho @jeffreyatucker Actually, the heroes of Atlas Shrugged, the ones Ayn Rand presented as the the admirable "makers," were the despicable ones. My favorite example is Dr. Hendricks, a neurosurgeon who claimed to have developed a cure/preventative for all strokes but wouldn't share it. Why?

Paperback, Mass Market, 1996

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, Michael Shermer

Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational

Michael Shermer
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

It's the hubris leading to the belief that *you* can't become a conspiracy theorist (because your critical thinking skills are so awesome) that explains how former "leaders" of the skeptic movement (e.g., Michael Shermer) can go all-in on conspiracy theories about #CRT and trans.

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong, Paul A. Offit

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

Paul A. Offit
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

@KaraKarlson @sophiacbess @bijans @notdred It doesn't come as too surprising to me after the chapter on Rachel Carson in his book "Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong," which was pattered on the seven deadly sins. In it, he parroted right wing tropes about Rachel Carson and DDT. https://t.co/Py5oWUwUfQ

Hardcover, 2017

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Alkaline: Dr. Robert O Young's pH Diet & Mindset, Robert O. Young

Alkaline: Dr. Robert O Young's pH Diet & Mindset

Robert O. Young
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

If anyone remembers Robert O. Young and his "alkaline lifestyle" quackery, basically this was his message. To him, cancer was the body's reaction to try to get rid of cells "spoilt" by acid. His solution? An "alkaline" diet, of course.

Paperback, 2020

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Plandemic: Fear Is the Virus. Truth Is the Cure., Mikki Willis

Plandemic: Fear Is the Virus. Truth Is the Cure.

Mikki Willis
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

Mikki Willis of "#Plandemic" fame is back, and this time he's flogging conspiracy theories about #ivermectin as a "suppressed" cure for #COVID19. https://t.co/q4l8YzNze3

Hardcover, 2021

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Robert Mendelsohn

Confessions of a Medical Heretic

Robert Mendelsohn
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

@DisabilityStor1 Well yes. I first learned that over 40 years ago in college when I first encountered Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn and his book Confessions of a Medical Heretic

Paperback, 1990

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Book Cover for: Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury--A Known Neurotoxin--From Vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy

Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury--A Known Neurotoxin--From Vaccines

Robert F. Kennedy
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

That anniversary snuck up on me. It's been 25 years since Andrew Wakeful published his atrocious case series that, along with thimerosal fear mongering by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a few years later, formed the basis of the pre-pandemic antivax movement. https://t.co/awGJLqjimU

Hardcover, 2014

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley
David Gorski, MD, PhDDavid Gorski, MD, PhD

@AtomsksSanakan @Florin_Uncovers @JoshRosenau @Corp_Raider99 @pathogenetics @MJnanostretch @PhilippMarkolin @jbloom_lab @past_is_future @stuartjdneil @nailbomb3 @_everythingism @c0nc0rdance It's a shame, actually. I quite enjoyed Ridley's "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters." I had no idea when I read it what a science-denying crank he was. It almost makes me want to go back and read it again to see if I missed indications in the book.

Paperback, 2006

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