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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

Sydney, New South Wales
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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      People have asked about these, so here's a non-exhaustive list of pretty obviously flawed papers published in these leading journals this yearhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1337917517524692992 …

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      Journals that I've personally seen publish papers with obvious errors in them during 2020: JAMA JAMA Open NEJM BMJ BMJ EBM Lancet Nature Nature Scientific Reports PNAS Etc... https://twitter.com/Constababble/status/1337856650963603456 …
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      Kicking off, a research letter in JAMA that was pretty useless as evidence (including not even running a hypothesis test)https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1287951029946867712?s=20 …

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      This paper published in JAMA just won't go away, so I thought I'd do a brief thread on why it says virtually nothing about masks for COVID-19 1/n https://twitter.com/NathanStall/status/1287832315004170240 …
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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      Next, JAMA opthalmology with "glasses protect against COVID-19" except the evidence was literally nonexistenthttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1307853460751040512?s=20 …

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      A study recently made massive, international news for reportedly showing that normal glasses may protect against COVID-19 Let's do a brief peer-review on twitter, because this is wild 1/n pic.twitter.com/T94hRFvfXU
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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      NEJM with the original 60-patient remdesivir retrospective trial, that nevertheless went enormously viral and may in part be why the medication is a first-line treatment for COVID-19 todayhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1249537293536210944?s=20 …

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      NEJM, arguably the biggest medical journal in the world, has just published this study stating that "remdesivir may have clinical benefit in patients with severe Covid-19" A quick skim says to me that the paper is...bad Let's do a live twitter critical appraisal and see! 1/n https://twitter.com/NEJM/status/1248697013870493698 …
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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      BMJ EBM covering themselves in...something with this editorial claiming that diet can protect from COVID-19...https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1282589015456116736?s=20 …

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      BMJ evidence-based medicine with an editorial recommending low-carb diets for COVID-19 This is...something else pic.twitter.com/QLaWzVszjQ
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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      ...And this SR/MA on honey for colds that was literally filled with errorshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1296264707922251776?s=20 …

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      A systematic review/meta-analysis of honey vs other cough/cold remedies came out yesterday in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine I think this is worth a quick peer review on twitter 1/n pic.twitter.com/XXE2dkbMS9
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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      BMJ again, this time a 2017 paper that was much less awful than most of the others on this listhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1272712224465797126?s=20 …

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      Replying to @ADAlthousePhD @MaartenvSmeden and 3 others
      Yeh I think looking at the overall table here from the BMJ paper is quite elucidating. Median of $0 for about 50% of all editors means that 50%+ of journal editors receive NO pharma money. Median for almost every specialty is below 1,000 pic.twitter.com/VHtemP5c1h
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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      The Lancet/NEJM for the whole Surgisphere debacle At least this one was retracted!https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1268657600335237120?s=20 …

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      And there we have it The most fascinating part of this whole experience is how quickly it has all happened A week's turnaround for a retraction is unheard of https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1268613313702891523 …
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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      Obese people are dishonest (except they aren't even according to the numbers in the study) in Nature Scientific Reportshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1291178572879736833?s=20 …

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      Ok, so there's a lot to unpack here. This was a randomized controlled trial looking at the impacts of fasting on lying in lean and obese people Headline finding - obese people lie more than lean ones https://twitter.com/YoniFreedhoff/status/1291126474616045571 … pic.twitter.com/7PG5gyPKB8
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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          JAMA Open, with their schools/YLL paper, that we've not actually written a published critique about https://osf.io/9yqxw/ https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1327872367893176320?s=20 …

          Health Nerd added,

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          Ok, so I've had a read of this paper (which has been all over the news) that says quite explicitly that closing schools will probably cause more years of life lost than leaving them open in a pandemic Let's do some peer-review on twitter! 1/n https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1327791987014074369 … pic.twitter.com/ZxjMUXem5y
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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Dec 2020

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          PNAS, with their now-infamous mask studyhttps://twitter.com/NoahHaber/status/1273646681964208128?s=20 …

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          Noah Haber @NoahHaber
          I have the unfortunate obligation to announce that we are formally seeking that the editorial board at PNAS retract the recently published Zhang et al., 2020. The full text of the letter we have sent to PNAS is available for viewing here: https://metrics.stanford.edu/PNAS%20retraction%20request%20LoE%20061820 …
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