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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 28 Sep 2020

      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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    2. Captain Science PhD‏ @_captainscience 28 Sep 2020
      Replying to @GidMK

      Ha. Conversation I had with a rheumatologist on Saturday: Rh: did you see that vitamin D prevents COVID? Me: that is not what the study showed. It showed that deficiency doesn't help. Big fat surprise. Medics love me 🙃

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 28 Sep 2020
      Replying to @_captainscience

      Gotta love how rarely it is that even doctors read the study results

      4:47 PM - 28 Sep 2020
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        2. Captain Science PhD‏ @_captainscience 28 Sep 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          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)

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        3. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 28 Sep 2020
          Replying to @_captainscience @GidMK

          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.

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        1. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @_captainscience

          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)

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        2. Dan Soffer‏ @dan_soffer 30 Sep 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @_captainscience

          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?

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        3. Captain Science PhD‏ @_captainscience 30 Sep 2020
          Replying to @dan_soffer @GidMK

          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.

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        1. DrT‏ @tskould 26 Oct 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @_captainscience

          Most of them are no scientist in the truest notion of the word...

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