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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2018

      My most recent headache is fact-checking Dr. Jason Fung's blogs, because it's such a minefield but it seems so legitimate it's scary

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2018

      For example this blog presents the argument that all weight loss by dietary recommendations is useless, and then cites this graph Notice what's wrong here?pic.twitter.com/j43Q175dc5

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2018

      If you picked up that there does seem to be a statistically significant difference between the two groups at every time-point, you're right! The study itself demonstrated small but clinically significant IMPROVEMENTS for the low-fat grouppic.twitter.com/bnUiWxgDcR

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2018

      This was mostly because the control group gained weight on average, but it's still a really important and significant finding that COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS Dr. Fung's argumentpic.twitter.com/ecRUpx1v2Y

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2018

      This is just one of many, it's hard to read these without yelling at the computer screen. Not sure what's happening here, but the piece seems to misinterpret or simply get things wrong quite a lot of the time

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2018

      The fact that the piece ends with a call to buy Dr. Fung's book seems to also be a bit...problematic to mepic.twitter.com/CMduouOU8K

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    7. Dr Ellen Fallows‏ @ellenfallows 15 Dec 2018
      Replying to @GidMK

      Yes but a difference of 2kg after 9 years! I think the point he is making is that this is a statistical difference, but is it a clinically significant difference?

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Dec 2018
      Replying to @ellenfallows

      For an intervention that mostly involved infrequent counseling sessions? I'd say that's very clinically significant!

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    9. Dr Ellen Fallows‏ @ellenfallows 16 Dec 2018
      Replying to @GidMK

      In fact, I was wrong, it was a 0.4kg weight loss after 9 years. This is certainly not clinically significant. It requires at least 15kg weight loss for example to put diabetes into remission (DiRECT study)

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2018
      Replying to @ellenfallows

      For an intervention that was literally 4 group sessions per year? I mean, it's not a huge weight loss but really any difference is pretty big considering the intervention. In comparison, DiRECT provided total meal replacement and dozens of consults

      12:25 AM - 16 Dec 2018
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