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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. Jonathan Jarry‏Verified account @crackedscience 22 Aug 2020

      Jonathan Jarry Retweeted McGill Office for Science and Society

      My latest: a review of Netflix's (Un)Well documentary, allegedly about the dangers of the wellness industry.https://twitter.com/McGillOSS/status/1297167650695643137 …

      Jonathan Jarry added,

      McGill Office for Science and Society @McGillOSS
      How does #UnWell, the latest @netflix health docuseries, fare in the realm of science? Is it @goop-y, or does it lean more towards our fave #DowntoEarth bros? Or - neither? http://mcgill.ca/x/4md  pic.twitter.com/HQ7PRQhzO3
      7 replies 6 retweets 38 likes
    2. Daniel Reeders  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @engagedpractx 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @crackedscience @GidMK

      I didn't read it as a failed attempt to warn people - consistent with the best science in e.g. vax promotion, taking the middle-ground is more persuasive than outright condemnation.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @engagedpractx @crackedscience

      Maybe, but I found them leaving a lot of stuff largely unchallenged very worrying. The response in the first episode to a guy saying that essential oils can definitely cure cancer was someone saying that cure is the wrong word but that they can treat things as well as meds

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Daniel Reeders  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @engagedpractx 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @crackedscience

      If you come to it with the mindset that this stuff needs to be condemned then of course it's going to seem inadequate. That view is emotional though, not evidence based. That ep used editing and contrast to show clearly the cancer claim was bullshit.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @engagedpractx @crackedscience

      I don't really agree that they did. I think the positive claims of cure were given almost the entire episode and then there was a very brief examination of the issues with the claims then back to mostly happy anecdotes

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Daniel Reeders  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @engagedpractx 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @crackedscience

      Nah. In this conversation one of us has tertiary training in how media products are put together and interpreted by audiences. There are many ways of communicating doubt and it used them all. It was *scathing* of the original essential oils guy for killing his patients.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @engagedpractx @crackedscience

      I just felt like a reasonable person watching that episode would come away with a totally understandable belief that essential oils can treat or even cure cancer

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Daniel Reeders  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @engagedpractx 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @crackedscience

      We're going around in circles here. That's a feeling, informed by your priors...

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @engagedpractx @crackedscience

      Maybe? I try to think about how other people would view it, but obviously I'm not perfect at that

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Daniel Reeders  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @engagedpractx 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @crackedscience

      The average punter doesn't come to this show parsing it for statements of fact that are directly contradicted or not. They're really sensitive to *social comparison.* Among all the people making claims, who comes across as sympathetic and reasonable in that episode?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Aug 2020
      Replying to @engagedpractx @crackedscience

      I thought the woman who survived cancer and credited it to the oils very much so. The expert to a great degree as well, whose main message was that the oils work but are not a cure

      7:57 PM - 22 Aug 2020
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        2. Daniel Reeders  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @engagedpractx 22 Aug 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @crackedscience

          Ok but the suburban mom who watches this show is *going to meet* cancer survivors who are either scammers or genuinely think it was the oils that tipped them over the top (not the chemo, radio, immuno, etc). Do you think it makes the show more credible not to show them?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Aug 2020
          Replying to @engagedpractx @crackedscience

          Right, and the show spends pretty much 0 time addressing why those anecdotes might not be reliable and a long time uncritically representing them

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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