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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. Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH‏ @GYamey Feb 2

      Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH Retweeted Health Nerd

      If you haven't been following this, dive in. It is depressing. A fatally flawed paper gets published & used to justify policy. @GidMK & @ikashnitsky spend ~50 hours pointing out the flaws. Lead author trashes them in the media (calls them 'trolls'). Paper is *still* not retractedhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1356412524162256899 …

      Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH added,

      Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
      I do find it fascinating how the usual "academic civility/silencing" brigade have completely ignored this whole episode. Apparently it's fine to publicly defame junior colleagues as long as it's in service of school reopening https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1356085105094053888 …
      Show this thread
      2 replies 15 retweets 36 likes
    2. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 2
      Replying to @GYamey @GidMK

      Ilya Kashnitsky Retweeted Ilya Kashnitsky

      And the amazing part is that the "correction" makes the paper ever more absurd. In its current form it 100% wouldn’t pass the sniff test of *any* demographer or frankly any researcher who pause for a heart bit to think. @JAMA_current is deeply corruptedhttps://twitter.com/ikashnitsky/status/1356044308986671105 …

      Ilya Kashnitsky added,

      Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky
      How can one be satisfied with the "corrected" "finding" that literally claims that missing a couple of months of schooling is the most detrimental thing that can happen to a kid in the remaining life... but (!) only if it's a US kid; if the kid is from Europe, all fine https://twitter.com/anya1anya/status/1355865046392430595 … pic.twitter.com/NmUKpD7RkK
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      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    3. Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH‏ @GYamey Feb 2
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @GidMK @JAMA_current

      It would be genuinely fascinating to know what the authors think the mechanism is for their finding that missing school in Europe doesn't lead to years of life lost, but missing school in the US does. Huh?

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    4. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 2
      Replying to @GYamey @GidMK @JAMA_current

      They try to pull out the story of large inequality in the US, which is true but cannot explain their error driven monstrous gap between US and EU They claim that 1 year of lost education translates into 45% increase in age-specific death rates (applied though-out remaining life)

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 2
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @GYamey and

      Now, a sanity check. Given 2017 US life table, male life expectancy is 76.1 years a 45% increase in death rates translates in a life exp of 71.4 That's just one year. The *observed* differences in *average* length of education for large groups can be 3–7 years

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 2
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @GYamey and

      Let's take 5 years gap 1.45^5 = 6.41 Which brings the life expectancy down to 50.1 years – below the Sub-Saharan African level

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 2
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @GYamey and

      The factual gaps in longevity by education are pretty large, but not nearly this size Here is a figure I quickly pull from Permanyer etal 2018 (http://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0718-z …)pic.twitter.com/rNDNWpI4EL

      CED Barcelona
      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    8. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 2
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @GYamey and

      Here I built a quick plot showing how life expectancy at birth drops if one assumes a 45% increase in age-specific deaths per year of lost education Utter nonsensepic.twitter.com/CFujlSAEJV

      Health Nerd and Darren Dahly, PhD
      3 replies 3 retweets 27 likes
    9. Balgor‏ @Balgor11 Feb 2
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @GidMK and

      Woah, if you drop out of school in middle school you die shortly thereafter!!! Oh wait that doesn’t actually happen!

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 2
      Replying to @Balgor11 @ikashnitsky and

      If you are never formally educated you cease to exist entirely, which seems somewhat unlikely

      11:53 AM - 2 Feb 2021
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        1. Balgor‏ @Balgor11 Feb 2
          Replying to @GidMK @ikashnitsky and

          Lol

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