The Guardian piece covering the story of extremely flawed @JAMANetworkOpen paper @DAChristakis, @drwilvancleve and @Zimmermanfred is out!
With @GidMK we outline many of the critical errors and conceptual flaws of the paper.
Join in for a guided tour
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1336201932952793089 …
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We deposited the full critique as an
@OSFramework preprint. Comparing bad apples to orange soda: Flaws and Errors in an Estimation of Years of Life Lost Associated With School Closures and COVID-19 deaths by Christakis, Van Cleve, and Zimmerman Have a
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9yqxw …pic.twitter.com/fInxiHsq5B
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The paper (which you can find here http://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28786 …) arrived at a ridiculous statement that School closure in the US caused a harm expressed in the Years of Life Lost (YLL) bigger than that of the direct COVID-19 deaths 3/
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We started with reactions on Twitter. Here I link them together 4/https://twitter.com/ikashnitsky/status/1330953091160608768 …
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Then, when it became obvious that the authors simply don't care about the truth and are going to dismiss our critique on Twitter and push on with the harmful policy suggestions
we joined forces w/ @GidMK to write a more formal reply 5/https://twitter.com/ikashnitsky/status/1330953083443159042 …Ilya Kashnitsky added,
Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitskyCan you believe it?
JUST HOW?
Instead of doing the homework and dealing with the infinite and diverse flaws and errors pointed out in his study @DAChristakis goes on TV to push forward the *wrong* and *harmful* policy suggestions. This choice is in no way an innocent mistake https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1329916350114967554 …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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Medice cura te ipsum. Your critique of the paper by
@DAChristakis is not the same as establishing that the policy of keeping schools open is harmful and wrong. The paper can be hopelessly flawed but the policy can still be correct.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
We make that point quite specifically in our posted paper
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