My links 🍎Discord: discord.gg/yyt97GH 🥕Facebook: facebook.com/AviMD 🍓Instagram: instagram.com/avibitt1990 🥑Twitter: twitter.com/AviBittMD 🍊YouTube: youtube.com/avimdAvi Bitterman Dermpath Lecture 6 (Psoriasiform / Spongiotic}Avi2024-10-14 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi Bitterman Dermpath Lecture 5 (Interface)Avi2024-10-08 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAlopecia Dermpath Lecture ft Dr. NiedtAvi2024-10-03 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi Bitterman Dermpath Lecture 4 (Melanocytic)Avi2024-10-01 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi Bitterman Dermpath Lecture 3Avi2024-09-24 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs Sof on Israeli Operation Grim BeeperAvi2024-09-21 | Did Operation Grim Beeper violate the CCW Amended Protocol II? Avi (No) vs Sof (Yes).
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi Bitterman Dermpath Lecture 2Avi2024-09-17 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi Bitterman Dermpath Lecture 1Avi2024-09-09 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdDr. Ahuva Cices explains our Sunscreen PaperAvi2024-06-21 | Physical sunscreens (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide) DO NOT protect by "reflecting" or "scattering" UV light. They work the same way chemical sunscreens work. They absorb UV light and convert it to heat.
Thanks to this amazing team for taking this nonsense to task in the literature!
One of the most widely spread myths I've seen (even still up on the AAD website sadly) is the claim that physical barrier sunscreens protect by reflecting or scattering UV light away from your skin as opposed to chemical sunscreens which just absorb UV light.
Reality: The overwhelming majority of protection of both physical and chemical sunscreens is ultimately through absorption of UV light and conversion to heat. Not by "reflecting" or "scattering" anything.
To put into perspective how insignificant this reflection mechanism contributes to any protection physical sunscreens offer: the average range of reflection for zinc oxide and titanium dioxide sunscreens throughout the UV range is only 4–5% (less than SPF 2), providing minimal UV protection via this mechanism.
Physical and chemical sunscreens by and large protect via the same mechanism - absorb the UV light, and convert it into heat.
Find our paper at:
Zundell M, Wong M, Rubin C, Cices A, Bitterman A. Improving patient communication on sunscreen choice: Updating mechanistic misconceptions. JEADV Clin Pract. 2023;2:963-964. doi:10.1002/jvc2.251
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdDiscussing Israels PR Problem and What to do About It, Featuring Ask YourselfAvi2024-06-20 | Minor correction: Meant to say David Cameron, not Richard Cameron. He also *was* the Prime minister of the UK, not currently *is*.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdTalking Humanitarian AIDS with Destiny and EconoboiAvi2024-05-06 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdQuick chat with the IDF and COGATAvi2024-04-12 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdWhat Really Happened on top of Finkelsteins ApartmentAvi2024-03-31 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdDouble Penetrating an Antivaxxer with DestinyAvi2024-03-28 | Obviously I was the one in the butthole here.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs Israel Bad tho SquadAvi2024-02-10 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdBen Shapiro Endorses My ProjectAvi2024-01-30 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs Lycan and Axhole on Israel-PalestineAvi2024-01-29 | "Hey have this caller, (Avi) he needs to leave or I'm not staying here" - Lycan, 2024
A wonderful conversation ensued.
One correction I would like to make: Lycan was also wrong about Cast Lead resulting in more civilian deaths than Protective Edge. This completely false on virtually every credible accounting of civilian deaths. This didn't matter to the point I was making but I should have checked his numbers and corrected him on that. I should not have taken his word on that (or anything about the topic, particularly cast lead and the goldstone report). I take full responsibility for not correcting him on the numbers. Will do my best to make sure that doesn't happen again.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmd~3 hours of straight dermpathAvi2023-12-15 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdIP stuff with DestinyAvi2023-11-25 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdHe knows. Shut it down.Avi2023-11-25 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi and LonerBox talk about Ideological Buzzwords and Israel Palestine stuffAvi2023-11-15 | Argumentum ad Buzzwordium!
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdQuick Chat with Snitch on Animal Research UtilityAvi2023-11-08 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmd
Study mentioned:
translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-019-1976-2Resolving Drama with Fisch over Israel / Palestine conflictAvi2023-10-16 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs SpruceWillis on Israel / Palestine stuffAvi2023-10-15 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAnswering some questions on pro-life/pro-choice/pro-sentienceAvi2023-10-04 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs MrBigNoodle on Natalie Fultons Why I hate Name the Trait videoAvi2023-09-29 | Natalie's video:
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi and Hadassah MS4 Dermpath Audition Prep 1Avi2023-09-20 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdDebate With a Bad Faith InterlocutorAvi2023-07-29 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdThe Problem With Activist Debaters (Joey Carbstrong vs Tristan Tate)Avi2023-07-21 | My view of the Joey Carbstrong debate/discussion with Tate and my hypothesis for why activists are generally poor debaters and don't appear to improve much over time despite years of debating and training.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs Anselmian on Moral Realism (Natural Law Theory Type)Avi2023-07-17 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdBack ThoAvi2023-05-19 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi & Casey Debate the Value of Unrealistic HypotheticalsAvi2023-05-10 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmd
Casey's Channel: @MollyRocket
Full discussion: youtu.be/tTO3FMSMk8gAvi & Tomas Bogardus Discuss Sex Univocality and Whether Sex is Binary (Part 2 of ?)Avi2023-05-01 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdReviewing Dr. Greger vs VG and exposing Dr. Gregers false claimsAvi2023-05-01 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdThat progress tho...Avi2023-04-13 | And I can assure you, this progress was made as a vegan who makes appropriate use of processed foods (ie synthetic whey protein aka beta lactoglobulin), doesn't blindly follow whole food dogma, doesn't overdo fiber, and even consumes *gasp*...extra virgin olive oil.
I train people as individuals, not by putting out categorical recommendations of the diet or fitness gurus beyond the basics.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdCaitlin going for repsAvi2023-03-21 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdThat Erythritol Study with Paul BarnettAvi2023-03-05 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmd
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi vs Mar Yosef on the Kuzari Argument (Argument from National Revelation)Avi2022-09-15 | One of the more esoteric arguments out there, more commonly seen in orthodox jewish theology. Posting because of the uniqueness of the argument, but still a shame the interlocutor didn't do it justice.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi & AY Discuss Gender and Sex with Tomas Bogardus (Part 1)Avi2022-07-02 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAbortion: Pro-Sentience (Avi & AY) vs Pro-Life (Zen Shapiro, Deff, & BNC)Avi2022-06-24 | Forgot to upload this one....seems like a good time.
My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmdReviewing Vaush vs Bogardus Gender Debate With AY and TroyAvi2022-06-10 | "Things that are true have constructed premises that lead necessarily to an outcome, a resolution. But a definition is applied presuppositionally"
AY's Links: -------------- https://linktr.ee/askyourselfAvi and Jeff Nippard discuss Eggs and Dietary CholesterolAvi2022-05-20 | My links: https://linktr.ee/avibittmd
Jeff:
youtube.com/c/JeffNippardIvermectin and Strongyloidiasis? The Hyperinfection HypothesisAvi2021-11-05 | I suspect ivermectin results aren't just because of fraud, but even worse. Taking strongyloides endemic populations, putting them into a control group with corticosteroids is a death sentence. The control group effectively kills people.
The ivermectin group doesn't kill people because it kills the strongyloides, thus preventing disseminated strongloydiasis when they are inevitably given corticosteroids.
But the control group people with strongyloidiasis didn't get any anti-helminthic treatment so they die.
Ivermectin doesn't treat COVID. It treats parasites (shocker) that kill people when they get steroids that treat COVID.
This is why the most favorable results (aside from fraud) are RCTs from strongyloides endemic regions. Kill the control group and the treatment looks good.
And on the graves of the dead people in the control group, misguided people in first world countries take Ivermectin for COVID thinking it will work for them. It likely won't. You don't have strongyloides that will kill you when you get steroids. The results don't extrapolate.
Comparison of Trials Using Ivermectin for COVID-19 Between Regions With High and Low Prevalence of Strongyloidiasis
My links: ►https://linktr.ee/avibittmdAvi & Mouthy vs Lauren Southern & Witzke: Is Transgenderism a Mental Illness?Avi2021-09-20 | Mouthy and I got bored of impossible burgers, so we decided to order up some organic, grass-fed, ethically sourced and humanely slaughtered Lauren instead.
We debate the proposition: "Transgenderism" is a Mental Illness (this is the wording the host made the debate proposition, but whatever).
Lauren Witszke: linkedin.com/in/lauren-witzke-47a21b1a5Vaccine Debate: Avi vs Cynical FinchAvi2021-09-13 | Many prayers and blessings for the anti-vax & vaccine-hesitant and all their flaccid phalluses. Get vaccinated, stay long and stay strong.