David Henry Gorski is an American surgical oncologist and professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine.[1] He specializes in breast cancer surgery at the Karmanos Cancer Institute.[2] Gorski is an outspoken skeptic and critic of alternative medicine and the anti-vaccination movement. A prolific blogger, he writes as Orac at Respectful Insolence, and as himself at Science-Based Medicine where he is the managing editor.[3][4][5]
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David Henry Gorski is an American surgical oncologist and professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He specializes in breast cancer...
generally a quack and a shill by science bloggers." One such blogger, DavidGorski of ScienceBlogs, called Natural News "one of the most wretched hives...
Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021. DavidGorski (27 January 2020). "How can we counter misinformation from "chemo truthers"...
prominent promoter. DavidGorski has written that FM is not well-defined and performs "expensive and generally unnecessary tests". Gorski says FM's vagueness...
example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. DavidGorski writes that reiki vies with homeopathy to be the "one quackery that rules...
philosophers, including Michael Shermer, Michael Ruse, Edzard Ernst, DavidGorski, and Simon Singh have criticized anthroposophy's application in the areas...
from placebo. Acupuncture has been called 'theatrical placebo', and DavidGorski argues that when acupuncture proponents advocate 'harnessing of placebo...
placebo. Pharmacologist David Colquhoun writes that cupping is "laughable... and utterly implausible." Practicing surgeon DavidGorski observes that "it's...
13, 2023. Gorski, David (February 4, 2013). "Epigenetics: It doesn't mean what quacks think it means". Science-Based Medicine. Gorski, David (June 13,...
supplements". Of Mercola's marketing techniques, surgical oncologist DavidGorski says it "mixes the boring, sensible health advice with pseudoscientific...
products of digestion, dead cells, chemicals from pollution and bacteria DavidGorski (23 May 2011). "Fashionably toxic". Science-Based Medicine. Archived...
Method may help aid rehabilitation of people with upper limb complaints. DavidGorski has written that the Method bears similarities to faith healing, is like...
blessings, then you will feel more blessed. Science-based medicine advocate DavidGorski describes Northrup as "...a woo-friendly gynecologist who has some very...
program for AIDS that has no supporting empirical data". He is placed by DavidGorski among the "quacks", "cranks" and "purveyors of woo", and described as...
gene-targeted cancer therapy", which has stirred further controversy. DavidGorski argues that the concept of "personalised cancer therapy" is "more of...
the disease and downplaying the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. DavidGorski, in Science-Based Medicine, described Weinstein as a prominent "COVID-19...
like Maher has put children at unnecessary risk. Surgical Oncologist DavidGorski criticized Maher's claims about vaccines several times on ScienceBlogs...
vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic". The rally was criticized by DavidGorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for...
interventions are used to improve fatigue in adult cancer patients. DavidGorski has described integrative medicine as an attempt to bring pseudoscience...
enhances the healing process underway in that same tissue. Critics, such as DavidGorski, call proponent's claims of the technique altering body tissue's vibrational...
infection. DavidGorski criticized the book noting that the biggest single risk factor for COVID-19 infection is age, which people cannot change. Gorski said...
Clinical Investigation (EJCI). In an article in Science-Based Medicine, DavidGorski said that the EJCI article included ad hominem criticisms against a co-author...
Ernst and other physicians and scientists including Simon Singh and DavidGorski have characterized anthroposophic medicine as pseudoscientific quackery...
prognosis has been reported to be more favourable. Surgical oncologist DavidGorski has written that, without treatment, most succumb to the disease within...
stitches a pseudoscientific horror story with the faces of the deceased." DavidGorski of Science-Based Medicine referred to the film as a "pseudodocumentary"...
claims lack scientific support, and are disputed by medical doctors. DavidGorski, a cancer surgeon and research scientist, evaluated the science sections...
order to pursue a theory that has no basis in biology." For example, DavidGorski criticized Brian M. Berman, founder of the University of Maryland Center...
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