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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 24 Oct 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Eric Topol

    There's a cord in my back, and when you pull it I say "correlation does not equal causation" Using it a lot todayhttps://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1320027008286388224 …

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    Eric TopolVerified account @EricTopol
    The R-squared is 0.73. "You can predict about 73% of the variability in state-level covid symptoms prevalence by knowing how often people wear their masks" @_cingraham https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/23/pandemic-data-chart-masks/ … with @CarnegieMellon data pic.twitter.com/HqJ8P7RrJV
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    • Alex Edwards Dr Emma Beckett Elizabeth Parfitt MD Complementary Meds Abundant Pedestrian Sheds Suzanne Currie GrepMed Laura Markley Liz "The Mask Goes Over Your Nose AND Mouth" Ditz
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Oct 2020

        Masks are good, silly graphs inferring causality from survey results with NUMEROUS explanations...not so much

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      2. an Okie AuD‏ @okielambs 24 Oct 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        That is my MANTRA!!

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      3. an Okie AuD‏ @okielambs 24 Oct 2020
        Replying to @okielambs @GidMK

        I mean. Hearing loss is CORRELATED with higher rates of dementia. But does that infer causation?!? Not that we know for sure yet! But does that stop folks from using it to sell hearing aids?? Unfortunately no.

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      1.  🦷 🦷 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵  🦷 🦷‏ @Matt_Hopcraft 24 Oct 2020
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        pic.twitter.com/agt5wGrTHf

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      2. Future Elizabeth‏ @future_fangirl 24 Oct 2020
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        Masks are definitely not everything because here in LA county we have high mask compliance and our numbers are still not great. Maybe not as bad as other places but still not great.

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      3. 8bit Modeling‏ @GephenS 24 Oct 2020
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        I look at masks as flattening the curve, not ending the pandemic. We are spreading out cases over time, hoping for vaccine success. It might exist, but I've seen no evidence the masks worn by most of the public get R < 1 reliably. Unfortunately. Maybe if we all had N95s?

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      2. 8bit Modeling‏ @GephenS 24 Oct 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I'm a recent follower of your account, but I appreciate it more and more each day.

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      3. Roland Baker‏ @RolandBakerIII 24 Oct 2020
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        He's great - a real asset to Twitter.

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      1. kenlipartito‏ @kenlipartito 24 Oct 2020
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        Interestingly the father of modern statistics Ronald Fisher insisted for yrs that the relationship between cancer and smoking was only a correlation. He accepted some research money from tobacco but I don’t think he was corrupted. He genuinely believed it.

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      1. Birduder344‏ @Birduder344 25 Oct 2020
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        This morning the rain got heavier as the sky got lighter. So the sun rising is causing the rain or perhaps more likely the rain causes the sun to rise.

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