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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

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Dec 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Peter Hitchens

    As an epidemiologist who curates an account about absolute and relative risk @justsaysrisks, I do indeed understand the intricacies here. The hilarity comes mostly from you misrepresenting relative risk as some kind of evil plothttps://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1340068351142490113 …

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    Peter HitchensVerified account @ClarkeMicah
    1/2 If you understood this @gidmk, you would know that this is not about being *wrong*. Both 0.3 and 14 are correct *calculations*. It is about *expression*. The expression of the difference which I used comes from the Danmask Report itself https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 … https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1340028490519728129 …
    3:14 PM - 18 Dec 2020
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Dec 2020

        Anyway, in your ongoing war against mathematics you dislike, this is hardly on the scale of completely misunderstanding stochastic, but it is nevertheless quite funny

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      1. Rob is vaccinated, masked and keeping his distance‏ @PencilBloke 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        I notice he's moved quietly from "2.1 - 1.8 = 14? How abjectly preposterous!" to "Of course they're both correct calculations".

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      2. Jeff Enge‏ @PuddleJumper358 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @ouwesnijp @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        Nothing in the concept of a pandemic requires people dropping dead in the streets in order to qualify.

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      2. Dean Francis‏ @deanthespleen 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        Instead of saying the difference between 2.1 and 1.8 is 14% it could equally be said (by inverting the statistical manipulation) that the difference between 97.9 and 98.2 is 0.306...% ...but pro maskers wouldn't do that because it doesn't fit their agenda.

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @deanthespleen @justsaysrisks

        Pray tell, what is my agenda?

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      1. CityPhil‏ @PBJJJ3 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        CityPhil Retweeted The HighWire

        https://twitter.com/HighWireTalk/status/1340024153768939522?s=19 … sure

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        The HighWire @HighWireTalk
        Award-winning virologist, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi elucidates why the rushed #Covid19 vaccine trials represent the world’s largest medical experiment perpetrated on the globe in human history. https://thehighwire.com/videos/the-biggest-experiment-ever-done/ …
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      1. Abish Stephen‏ @a20stephen 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        Oh God he's started to quote tweet you as well. Run for the hills!

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      1. Leisha O'Brien‏ @LeishaOBrien10 18 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        It's one of the most bizarre things I've seen on Twitter. I can't bring myself to read what his followers say but it's terrifying that he has so many.

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      1. Dr Sam‏ @PerryWadeSam 19 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @justsaysrisks

        You are a saint to stay so polite in the face of such unwavering stupidity and misplaced confidence. Sending these over...pic.twitter.com/GrS02xbSjs

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