Dr. Gorski
"David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, where he also serves as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician as well as an Associate Professor of Surgery and member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology at Wayne State University."
Dr. Gorski has one credential that caught my eye. As you may or may not know I loathe alternative medicine ("alt-universe") in terms of their pseudoscientific views on the trappings of illnesses, treatments and how the body functions. They take these troglodytic views and spew them as fact. The public believes them because they have initials after their last names and because they (the public) believe that all of medicine is in some sort of secret society (complete with rings and a secret handshake) that wants only money and will not tell them (the public) the 'truth' on simple treatments. Ask some of the women that have used alternative therapy for their breast cancer...oh wait you can't! Their dead!
Back to Dr. Gorski. What caught my eye is the absolute disdain the "alt-universe" has for him. They try to impune his credibility with argumentum ad personum, not with fact. When I see that, that tells me they are afraid of him because he can expose them for the snake-oil salesman they are. By the way, I do not agree with everything Dr. Gorski says. I don't have to and I shouldn't because not only am I a physician with my own views and experiences (and yes, I do read the majority of the research that comes out, germane to me) but I am a human being with a brain that functions (ask my wife, she will dispute that fact from time to time). Only sheep follow blindly, ask the Obama voters...But, I digress. Here are some examples of the "alt-universe's" hatred for him (taken from the link above):
1: "You know, I was reading the oracknows site the other night & you know how all the pro-poisoning people are - they have this little skeptics circle or whatnot. "
The author of the above blog has great credentials (snort) and has your best interest at heart. That's why he sells Magnesium with SRT! SRT stands for "sustained release technology." And it's patented, don't ya know! Wow! It must be amazing, it even costs $114.97 (plus S&H) for 4 bottles. Wow! It's got that cool "SRT" moniker and it's expensive. It must be good!
The fact is, you can by a product, over-the-counter, called "SloMag" for about $8-$15…or you can show your idiocy and spend the money for the patented “SRT” Man, if only drug companies were that smart!
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There are way too many for me to list or even care to discuss.
Let’s get to the meat and potatoes of this. Cell phones do not cause “brain cancer” There have two MAJOR studies that say they have not and show why they do not. If you want to read the details, click on the title of this heading. The bottom line is that people get brain tumors and people also use cell phones. There has not been an increase in brain tumors in correlation to the increase in cell phone usage. Also, the technology has gotten better in order to pick up smaller tumors. This in no way correlates to cell phones.
Let’s use an example “if I eat carrots then I will dies from something.” Yes, that prima facia statement is true. “If you eat carrots then you will die”, is true because everybody dies. However, when looked more closely, you cannot correlate the eating of carrots to death from “something”. Certain parameters must be set up such as:
1) If you didn’t eat carrots would you still die?
2) If you did eat carrots, what quantity would you have to consume to in order to die?
3) What is that “something”?
4) How long would you have to have consumed carrots in order to doom yourself?
5) What about people who have a known predisposition to death (it’s called life), who do not eat carrots, will they also die?
6) What about randomization?
7) What about mixing carrots and peas? Will that have an inhibitory or synergistic effect? Which peas and carrots, specifically? What quantities? Will someone eat a placebo pea and/or carrot to find out? What is that placebo going to look like? What's it going to taste like? Will the people taking the placebo know they are taking a placebo?.......yada- yada- yada.....
8) Why do people with hair plugs and comb-overs think that it looks natural?
9) Why do women get offended when men stare at their breasts if they are wearing something low cut?
See, you can make anything nonsensical (except #8 and 9, which I really do want an answer to) seem valid. So go on, and use your cell phone and put it up to your head and stick that blutooth in your ear and text while driving, you won’t get “brain cancer”
Well, I won’t say you won’t, but I will say the evidence does not support it and the fact that you text while you drive just shows you’re an idiot. Nothing to do with anything, just “you’re an idiot.”
Thank you, and good night.
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