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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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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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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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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Health NerdVerified account @GidMKNEJM, 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 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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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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...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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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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Health NerdVerified account @GidMKReplying to @ADAlthousePhD @MaartenvSmeden and 3 othersYeh 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/VHtemP5c1h1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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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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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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Health NerdVerified account @GidMKOk, 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/7PG5gyPKB8Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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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 …
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Health NerdVerified account @GidMKOk, 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/ZxjMUXem5yShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
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PNAS, with their now-infamous mask studyhttps://twitter.com/NoahHaber/status/1273646681964208128?s=20 …
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