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    1. Jeanne Lenzer‏ @JeanneLenzer1 30 Nov 2020

      The Ioannidis Affair: A Tale of Major Scientific Overreaction https://bit.ly/3moBjMN  Scientific American by @JeanneLenzer1 and @ShannonBrownlee @sdbaral @BMJ_EBM

      21 replies 26 retweets 61 likes
    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @JeanneLenzer1 @ShannonBrownlee and

      This piece is inaccurate and should be corrected. This passage is wrong: the problems with the SC study were to do with uncertainty around test performance, and had very little to do with false negatives. This is not "absurdity" it is factpic.twitter.com/zadXM8cZKL

      3 replies 5 retweets 59 likes
    3. Carl T. Bergstrom‏Verified account @CT_Bergstrom 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @JeanneLenzer1 and

      Also: "These data are unhelpful because they do not even rule out the null hypothesis that all positives are measurement error" is a very different claim than "I believe that all positives are measurement error".

      2 replies 1 retweet 43 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @CT_Bergstrom @JeanneLenzer1 and

      Yes. It feels very much as if the authors of this piece did not read the critique of the SC or ask one of the statisticians who made these comments what they meant because what's been printed here is just wildly off-base

      12:34 PM - 30 Nov 2020
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      • Scott Myers kfunk937 Dan Killam, PhD Ivan B. Arvind Singhal emekdemir Nicolas Bray (he/him) Alex Merz Richard H. Ebright
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        2. Naim Matasci‏ @nmatasci 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          that's because the criticism of how they calculated the IFR was couched in a fair deal of math, rather than coming from preformed, politically-based opinions, as it should be.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Naim Matasci‏ @nmatasci 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @nmatasci @GidMK and

          that expression, "couched in a a fair deal of math" irks me so much. It's rank anti-expertise of the worse "if I don't understand it, it must be wrong" kind. Do the editors of @sciam also feel like stomping on the grave of Martin Gardner at this point?

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        2. Ryan Radecki, MD MS‏Verified account @emlitofnote 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          There is indeed a misprint in this article, and @JeanneLenzer1 has acknowledged it in another thread for correction.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @emlitofnote @CT_Bergstrom and

          The misprinted word is not the primary error. The criticism of the SC study was not an "absurdity" and is completely misrepresented in the piece

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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        2. mike johansen‏ @mikejohansenmd 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          I have blocked @JeanneLenzer1. I would encourage everyone else to until she agrees to stop quote tweeting people. I will happily unblock her when she stops quote tweeting everyone.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Swapnil Hiremath‏ @hswapnil 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @mikejohansenmd @GidMK and

          for the record, I did not suggest this to Mike ...pic.twitter.com/Ug1QVUuRhg

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        1. Kano  🇪🇺 #zeroCovid‏ @falsel_net 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          Kano  🇪🇺 #zeroCovid Retweeted Kano  🇪🇺 #zeroCovid

          Indeed. This approach does attempt to avoid useless discussions on seroprevalence, test positivity, country specifics and further yadiyaBladibla:https://mobile.twitter.com/falsel_net/status/1266966277584826368?p=v …

          Kano  🇪🇺 #zeroCovid added,

          Kano  🇪🇺 #zeroCovid @falsel_net
          Global #Covid19 IFR estimate 1,04% Seroprevalence studies & point estimates from case studies or subsampled populations: limited by sample coverage: cannot inform a global IFR, as mortality is known to vary dramatically by age and treatment availability. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.11.20098780v1.full.pdf …
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          @wfithian might be able to comment further as one of the people who actually published some of the statistical critiques that are being misrepresented here

          1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          Also, just realized that these appear to be the same authors who published an almost identical argument a few months ago in Undarkhttps://undark.org/2020/06/11/john-ioannidis-politicization/ …

          2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
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        1. Atomsk's Sanakan‏ @AtomsksSanakan 1 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom and

          Re: "It feels very much as if the authors of this piece did not read the critique of the SC or ask one of the statisticians who made these comments what they meant" Yup. https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status/1333894080191889409 … https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.22.20108944v3 … https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rssc.12435 …pic.twitter.com/F13R46PNk0

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