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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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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Apr 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Melissa Davey

    If this pandemic has shown us nothing else, it's that the average very educated person is still pretty awful at critically appraising scientific evidence Just look at how many doctors prescribed themselves/family hydroxychloroquinehttps://twitter.com/MelissaLDavey/status/1255642837040852994 …

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    Melissa DaveyVerified account @MelissaLDavey
    Doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians are falling for statistically meaningless, methodologically shoddy, and even fraudulent research. https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-research-hydroxychloroquine-remdesivir-studies.html … via @slate
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Apr 2020

        Or the remdesivir stuff - even a fairly casual read of the literature out there right now shows you that it's not a sure-fire thing and might be harmful And yet

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Apr 2020

        Another great example - the Santa Clara serology study has numerous holes, but is the go-to piece of evidence for many people who cite it as established fact

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      1. Melissa Davey‏Verified account @MelissaLDavey 29 Apr 2020
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        Yes indeed:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/australian-doctors-warned-off-after-prescribing-potentially-deadly-covid-19-trial-drug-to-themselves …

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      1. Jason Druebert‏ @jdruebert 29 Apr 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        My friend who’s a doctor prescribed himself hydroxychloroquine, said the side effects were awful. Patients like to feel like something is being done & doctors are only too happy to prescribe something, seems that holds true even when the doctor & patient are one in the same.

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      1. Lua Wilkinson, PhD, RD‏ @LuaWilkinson 29 Apr 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Ok but add “average scientist” to that list. Do you know how many times a day I have to explain logistic regression, odds ratio, and risk? Or what these “predictive models” are actually NOT predicting? Spoiler: a lot

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      2. Kyle Sheldrick‏ @K_Sheldrick 29 Apr 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Disagree strongly. Can't infer an average from outliers/floating numerators.

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Apr 2020
        Replying to @K_Sheldrick

        Fair point, although I'd defend the term as a colloquialism rather than a specific numerical estimate. Perhaps more fair to say that there are clearly very large numbers of very educated people who aren't great at evidence appraisal

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      2. Lazarus Long‏ @LazarusLong13 29 Apr 2020
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        I respectfully disagree. I heard about HCQ back some time ago via rumor. There was no other research out, one way or the other, so I went to considerable trouble to get some. This was before Trump even thought of mentioning it. But I had to hustle to get it, and every...

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      3. Lazarus Long‏ @LazarusLong13 29 Apr 2020
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        pharmacist I talked to, was puzzled by the requests for HCQ abruptly. I have done a lot of thinking about HCQ and my experience with it, since. And I think it's because there are absolutely no viable cures. And, just like me, the doctor's were desperate to try anything.

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      1. Kara DeCorby‏ @karadecorby 29 Apr 2020
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        Critical appraisal is an undervalued skill, and we have to start teaching critical thinking a lot earlier, rather than expecting people to just pick it up along the way.

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