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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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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @BallouxFrancois @DrZoeHyde @skepticalzebra

      Why is it grotesque to suggest that, under appropriate ethics provisions, it might reduce bias in research studies if they were to include anal swabbing as well as the battery of tests already approved?

      4 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

      I would argue that it is ethically more questionable to continue subjecting children to unnecessary and invasive blood draws without excluding this as a source of bias

      2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

      Moreover, you've spent quite some time calling for more civil discourse over the last year, which brings me back to my original question - is this episode representative of academic civility?

      0 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @BallouxFrancois @DrZoeHyde @skepticalzebra

      I'm confused - are you saying that given the general tribalism it's now perfectly acceptable academic conduct to tweet out a misrepresentation to 85k followers without attempting to clarify with the author first? Or am I misunderstanding?

      2 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @BallouxFrancois @DrZoeHyde @skepticalzebra

      Sure. I would suggest that if you agree that the original tweet was incorrect, the best thing to do would be to delete it and replace with something that makes your point without the misrepresentation

      2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @BallouxFrancois @DrZoeHyde @skepticalzebra

      You agree that it was an incorrect interpretation which has since been clarified to you. Anyway, it is just my suggestion - I tend to care most about my own actions, and it is what I would do were I to make a similar error

      1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 28
      Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

      What a fascinating outcome. Academic civility in action I supposepic.twitter.com/1RVsJmRBeS

      4:33 PM - 28 Feb 2021
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      • Laurent Cimasoni CR alpix Christopher Voß Tutkija Tutkersson Laura McCall #NoMassInfection Francis Haddock Gabrielle  Laeggerli 🔴🔴🔴 Linker Verteidiger, Article 12 ICESCR💉💉
      6 replies 2 retweets 40 likes
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        2. Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MS‏ @fitterhappierAJ Feb 28
          Replying to @NickytaLeb @GidMK and

          which one?

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        1. Dr Noor Bari‏ @NjbBari3 Feb 28
          Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

          🏆🤷🏽‍♀️

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        2. Adam Donaldson‏ @AdamWDon1 Feb 28
          Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

          He seems to have been very stressed recently and having pops at everyone.

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        3. Elizabeth Atherton‏ @ElizAthertonSop Mar 1
          Replying to @AdamWDon1 @GidMK and

          Probably because he has spent the last year being one of the few people who mostly remained calm and polite while others dug at him over and over again. Even Francois can have enough eventually. The behaviour of many scientists on here has been disgraceful for months now.

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        1. Francis Haddock‏ @francis_haddock Mar 1
          Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

          Thank you for not letting him off the hook on this

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        1. Starving Engineer‏ @edw_tweet Mar 1
          Replying to @GidMK @BallouxFrancois and

          Welcome to the club. I got blocked for pointing out twice he compared flu CFR to SARS-COV-2 IFR. I had no other exchange with him.

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        1. Laurent Cimasoni‏ @LCimasoni Mar 1
          Replying to @GidMK

          Thank you for this. I tried to reason with skeptical zebra and François Balloux, but it was a dialogue of the deaf and I lost too much sleep time over it. Your voice had more impact. Strange how they could post such mean tweets and still think they were righteous and empathetic.

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