The Ioannidis Affair: A Tale of Major Scientific Overreaction https://bit.ly/3moBjMN Scientific American by @JeanneLenzer1 and @ShannonBrownlee @sdbaral @BMJ_EBM
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If the authors won't address this,
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This piece also ignores the other major criticisms of the study - that there was selection bias as the trial was advertised on FB, in addition to an email from the wife of one of the authors (Bhattacharya) suggesting people sign up if they thought they might have had the virus.
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And it was pretty clear that the piece despite this clear selection bias issue was used to argue that IFR was low - here is a WSJ editorial by one of the co-authors of the pre-print (Bogan) that didn't initially disclose his authorship:https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-data-suggest-the-coronavirus-isnt-as-deadly-as-we-thought-11587155298 …
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