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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 Mar 2

      This appears to be a pretty straightforward case of p-hacking as described, except in the opposite direction - the authors kept hunting around until they found a NON significant relationship to put in the paper https://twitter.com/lonnibesancon/status/1366892448732094465 …pic.twitter.com/1GVSDAnaCl

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      Of course, the research letter that this is about, because it suggested that Swedish schoolchildren/teachers were totally safe from COVID-19, has been in dozens of news articles and has an Altmetric of 6,500 🙄

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      It sounds like the only reasonable course of action for @NEJM at this point is to place a notification of concern on the paper and investigate themselves

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      I mean, seriously, based on that correspondence the lead author knew that schoolchildren had excess mortality of 68% (unless combined with preschool kids), but this is what they concludedpic.twitter.com/h7j3LK9pAv

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      Oh, forgot to mention that this lead author was also an original signatory/author on the Great Barrington Declarationpic.twitter.com/WYp8a6tqAw

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3

      Health Nerd Retweeted Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own

      Reading the emails is incredibly stark. I cannot see any avenue but retracting this paper asaphttps://twitter.com/galinash/status/1367052448381210628?s=19 …

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      Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galinash
      Ludvigsson om how kids don't get sick much. But wait, there is definitely something related to them dying more. Could be an accident but oops. This is in none of his papers... https://twitter.com/GostaBroholmer/status/1367050397932793858 … pic.twitter.com/9y1DCSF8Nf
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3

      Just to update, I'm not sure calling for retraction was justified. It does not look good at all, but the authors have updated the paper with this information now

      12:00 PM - 3 Mar 2021
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      • noa-witheringly Proud European from Austria🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own Michele Capobianco Paula Clemente ferdi magellan flyonthewall Tomas Ronnerstedt
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        2. flyonthewall‏ @onthewall_fly Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          It’s good to see this comment Gideon. In the author’s reply this stood out: “an outbreak was defined as two or more simultaneous cases of Covid-19. Schools are likely to account for a high proportion of outbreaks because Swedish authorities do not register household outbreaks.”

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        3. flyonthewall‏ @onthewall_fly Mar 3
          Replying to @onthewall_fly @GidMK

          I know you and @lonnibesancon flagged the high number of outbreaks as going against the conclusions of the original paper. Would this clarification change your views?

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        1. Sick sad world‏ @SickSadWo Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          What about this is it that you don't think looks good? The NEJM letter was updated with that information BEFORE the Sciencemag piece was even published.

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        1. Andy Other ™‏ @Anne_Other1 Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          UK excess death data for 0-14. https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/mortality-surveillance/excess-mortality-in-england-latest.html …pic.twitter.com/R1I2DijHtK

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        1. Starving Engineer‏ @edw_tweet Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          Updated because they knew they were going to get caught. Many people referred to this paper before the additional information was added. Would they have done it if it had been there? This can't be accepted, otherwise this will become a new "trick" to get high altmetrics.

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        2. E pluribus Anders‏ @EPluribusAnders Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          What do you mean "now"?

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        3. Jan jean‏ @Janjean15 Mar 3
          Replying to @EPluribusAnders @GidMK

          Compared to the January 6 publication presumably.

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        2. Neil‏ @AnserGIS Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          What kind of journal allows updates? You can withdraw and replace, but you cant update else citations would need time stamps!

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own‏ @galinash Mar 4
          Replying to @AnserGIS @GidMK

          Better with updates than without though his May article in Acta Paediatrica is still referred to a lot and still has all the same issues as before. Which is what the 2nd public mail addressed.

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        2. David Steadson  🇦🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🌍‏ @DavidSteadson Mar 4
          Replying to @GidMK

          I am even more concerned the more I learn. We submitted a response to the article to NEJM on Jan 12. We have inquired numerous time as to it's status, with no response. Friday evening at 19.28 we received letters with requests to submit author copyright transfers within 72 hrs.>

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        3. David Steadson  🇦🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🌍‏ @DavidSteadson Mar 4
          Replying to @DavidSteadson @GidMK

          Monday afternoon the letters are published, with a response from Prof Ludvigsson, and to our surprise new data submitted in to the supplementary appendix - the additional mortality data for prior months. >

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