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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 26 Nov 2020

      Health Nerd Retweeted Vinay Prasad, MD MPH  🎙️ 📷

      Retraction of error-filled analysis =/= "censorship"https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1332149885374668802 …

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      Vinay Prasad, MD MPH  🎙️ 📷Verified account @VPrasadMDMPH
      I Read the article (archived links in the thread) I'm sorry, but this is not acceptable in science. We can't delete, censor and retract, if a claim is not fraudulent. We certainly can't simply because an analysis is misused. Censoring is a grave threat to science. https://twitter.com/JHUNewsLetter/status/1332100136152035330 …
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 26 Nov 2020

      In any other discipline, if you made obvious and repeated mathematical mistakes it would be expected that you get rid of the article, but in academia this is frowned upon It is a very strange system indeed

      7:59 PM - 26 Nov 2020
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      • Scott Krugman, MD Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD Trent Condellone Sebastian Lohse Proud European from Austria🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 Vivek Das News Junkie William LeGate Mike Howard
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        1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 26 Nov 2020

          Also worth noting that what @VPrasadMDMPH is objecting to is not scientific censorship by any account, because what was deleted here was the press release put out by the university newsletter...

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        2. Angry Cardiologist‏ @AngryCardio 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Academia has norms that are necessarily different than other human endeavors. Show your work. Dispute facts & interpretations. And errors are corrected with reasons, not thrown down a memory hole.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @AngryCardio

          Academia has norms like any other field, and is prone to inertia. If something has dozens of obvious mathematical errors, it's very odd to call censorship when it's removed

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. JH // from fairest tweeps we desire increase‏ @jhan2qt 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          well I just started to read the article, but it is bad. It shouldn't have been published in the first place. No clue why anyone wants to break a leg for it.

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        2. mother of all gay bombs‏ @butts_4_jesus 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Seeing the sheer number of garbage papers with obvious flaws being paraded around is quite off putting. More so that people are calling retractions or rejections “censorship”.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. mother of all gay bombs‏ @butts_4_jesus 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @butts_4_jesus @GidMK

          My own field (Astro) isn’t immune to this, but it rarely involves actual lives at stake...

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        1. Craig Kaplan‏ @TriggerLoop 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Her "analysis" is being trumpeted all over the internet and featured in an AIER news article. Prasad is playing his game over a *press release*

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        2. STEMLORD‏Verified account @upulie 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          isn't this "personalised medicine is a sham" dude

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @upulie

          No idea

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        2. George Beckingham‏ @GBeckingham 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          I'd think the best way to deal with a flawed paper is to keep it available with a big red RETRACTED header, and commentary marked throughout.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Ryan Horath‏ @therealrthorat 26 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GBeckingham @GidMK

          This is all @VPrasadMDMPH was calling for. People who think disappearing publications down a memory hole is a good idea are a strange bunch. It arouses suspicions - for good reason. The way this was done has now Streisanded the publication. Success?

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