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kspacewalk2last Tuesday at 2:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Dr. Mike, a rare YouTube doctor who is not peddling supplements and wares, and thus seems to be at the forefront of medical critical thinking on the platform, interviewed Dr. Amen recently[0]. I haven't finished the interview yet, but having watched some others, generally the approach is to let the interviewee make their grandiose claims, agree with whatever vague generalities and truisms they use in their rhetoric (yes it's true, doctors don't spend enough time explaining things to patients!), and then lay into them on the actual science and evidence.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SHgZ1XPXs


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patmorgan23last Tuesday at 3:29 PM

Dr. Mike did an incredible job in that interview. He gave Dr. Amen all the rope to hang himself with his own words. When you're hawking a diagnosis method and you're not interested in building up the foundation of evidence for it by doing a double blinded, randomized controlled study. And that the results of said study would change how your treating patients it's pretty clear who the snake oil salesman is

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kafkaesquelast Tuesday at 4:06 PM

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