David H. Gorski, MD, PhD | |
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Occupation(s) | Surgeon, Oncologist, Blogger |
Website | [1] |
David H. Gorski is assistant professor of surgery at Wayne State University and breast cancer oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, and a well known skeptical blogger at ScienceBlogs whose blogging name is "Orac", after the character in Blake's 7. He completed his fellowship at the University Hospitals of Cleveland and has a PhD in Cellular Physiology from Case Western Reserve University.[1] He has debated Michael Egnor, but is best known for dealing with the anti-vaccine movement in blog posts at his blog, Respectful Insolence. Other well-known topics include the Burzynski Clinic.[2] He is also the managing editor of Science Based Medicine, founded by Steven Novella. One time, in June of 2010, members of the anti-vaccine blog Age of Autism attempted to write the board of directors at WSU to get him either fired or banned from blogging. They succeeded at neither.[3]