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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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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 24

      I know I've said this before but if you think you've found an easy solution to a problem that all experts have missed, you might want to check to see if actually there are good reasons why it's not as good a solution as you first thought

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 24

      I mean, if it's obvious to you, imagine how obvious it probably is to the people who've spent their entire lives dedicated to this field. They may/probably have already considered the thing that you've just thought up

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 24

      This is not to say that experts are always right, or some other silly pronouncement, but if you think you've solved, say, physics by watching some Youtube videos you might want to stop for a minute and consider the possibility that you are wrong

      4:35 PM - 24 Jan 2021
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        1. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          If I see another tweet telling me "This is the intervention that works best for stopping Covid spread because city X did this and it worked, so all those other experts who didn't agree were wrong and proves I'm right" I will go bananas.

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        1. Gray Stripe‏ @GrayStripe52 Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          Totally agree. Alas, the Dunning-Kruger effect seems endemic in first world countries.

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        1. Christopher R. Perle, PhD (Biologist, from birth)‏ @DrSeaPerle Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          "but I know something about protein folding. I am therefore more qualified on every subject in science than any other scientist in the world " /s

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        1. Dr. McQuantum‏ @vities_mc Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          Counter point: polymerase chain reaction (PCR). (if it’s not written up in literature, write it up and send for review)!

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        1. Lila "In Search of the Denominator" Ralston‏ @epicdemiologist Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          Unlike other "research", "has anyone ever tried X" is a question you could plausibly find the answer to by Googling.

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        1. Sebastian H‏ @Sebastian_Hols Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          So thus far listening to the technocratic experts has CA with a much worse vaccine rollout then the ‘stick it in their arms’ states. I’d love to see a good discussion of that.

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        1. BruceDickenson‏ @BruceDickenson1 Jan 24
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          Ok then....how do you stop a pandemic?

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        1. Doug Warren‏ @DougWar40K Jan 24
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          "Expert" is just another word for someone who's already been wrong in all the easy, obvious ways, and thus craves the challenge of being wrong in exciting and complex ways nobody's ever seriously considered being wrong before.

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        1. Dark Waters‏ @DarkWaters13 Jan 24
          Replying to @GidMK

          I love how I constantly consider that I'm wrong, I test hypotheses about my illness for twenty years, I get data wherever I can (often from patients, but also from PubMed), I recover, & the medical profession will just casually tell me I'm wrong, never considering the converse.

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