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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 20 Nov 2020

      Health Nerd Retweeted Nicholas A. Christakis

      I could not disagree with this more. If we do not retract flawed research with the purpose to cause harm, what is the point of retraction at all?https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1329471888180072452 …

      Health Nerd added,

      Nicholas A. ChristakisVerified account @NAChristakis
      Disagree with a published paper? Don't like its conclusions, politically inimical to you? Find the methods imperfect? Do your own research to rebut it. Publish your critiques. But do not call for retraction of papers because of 'potential to inflict serious harm.' @NatureComms https://twitter.com/leslievosshall/status/1329455882481131524 …
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Nov 2020

      I've read hundreds of papers with mistakes - errors big and small - at the absolute minimum these should be corrected, but if the entire paper is flawed what else do you do?

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Nov 2020

      I think this attitude often harks back to decades long past, where you had a physical journal where letters to the editor were read as much as studies themselves

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Nov 2020

      But these days, letters are barely read, but studies often go viral and are seen by 100,000s. What's even the point of writing a letter if it doesn't lead to correction/retraction?

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Nov 2020

      Sorry, initial tweet should read "potential" not "purpose"

      12:43 PM - 20 Nov 2020
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        1. Tomasz Carraghan‏ @TCarraghan 20 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Are you going to delete that tweet, given it has the potential to cause harm?

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        2. Dr Elly Howse‏ @ellyhowse 20 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Wow, imagine if that Andrew Wakefield work hadn’t been retracted. It’s harmed vaccine work enough.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Nov 2020
          Replying to @ellyhowse

          Yep! If you save retraction for only outright fraud then the literature will be littered with nonsense

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        1. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 20 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          And it’s only a matter of time before the flawed yet still existing research gets referenced in defence of a belief. Crikey Wakefield still gets referenced even though retracted !

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        1. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 20 Nov 2020
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          Dr Paul Mackey Retweeted Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

          @gidmk meethttps://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1329978352468447232 …

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          Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPHVerified account @ashishkjha
          Spent this week beefing up my knowledge of the Hydroxychloroquine literature, as it were Will spend the weekend trying to forget it Some of the observational HCQ studies remind me of old saying: Just because a paper can be published does not mean that paper should be published
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        1. Joshua Samsoondar‏ @jsamsoondar 21 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          That is just as problematic... Wildly arbitrary. Do you not publish vaccine side effects because it has potential to add to vaccine hesitancy?

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