This study in PLOS One is being reported (and used by a lot of people on twitter) as proving definitively that Vitamin D supplementation can treat COVID-19 So, thought I'd do a peer-review on twitter 1/npic.twitter.com/bIsYSKdmjj
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He had read the study. He just couldn't interpret it. And he's involved in research (I very much doubt theres a huge amount of involvement)
I often think that the way we select people to study medicine is wrong: high academic grades and that's it. But the scientifically minded and critical thinkers with outstanding diagnostic and analysis skills frequently don't make the cut.
That’s what we rely on you for
. Thanks for this review. I was thinking this was going to be the similar small European study (which I can’t find now:( which showed similar. Hopefully these will be stimulating prospective trials of Vit D (and statins maybe)
That is an gross overrepresentation of medical doctor activity. Is it possible that doctors read clinical trials in the fields in which they are most expert and rely on reviews and guidelines in the rest? or some other relationship between doctors and study reading?
I think some doctors don't really read the research tbh. Most of the ones on Twitter seem to. My experience of medics in the UK is that their basic science is lacking. And their ability to appraise research/think critically. And this is across several disciplines.
Most of them are no scientist in the truest notion of the word...
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