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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. David Steadson  🇦🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🌍‏ @DavidSteadson Mar 5
      Replying to @DavidSteadson @RickCarlsson and

      He does however, talk about the effect being mitigated if he includes a younger age group and considers that. This is less good, but just an email. He says he feels once he knows about this data, he should publish it. Great. >

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    2. David Steadson  🇦🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🌍‏ @DavidSteadson Mar 5
      Replying to @DavidSteadson @RickCarlsson and

      The article is published, and it includes mortality data comparing Mar-Jun 2020 to Nov-Feb 2019, which makes no sense at all. There's no significant difference. Zero mention of the concerning year on year comparison at all. >

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    3. David Steadson  🇦🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🌍‏ @DavidSteadson Mar 5
      Replying to @DavidSteadson @RickCarlsson and

      Since the Science article was published he has claimed he included this comparison *at the suggestion of a reviewer*, which I find frankly ... well, bizarre? What did he submit, the concerning data that showed the 68% increase? And the reviewer suggested changing it?

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    4. David Steadson  🇦🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🌍‏ @DavidSteadson Mar 5
      Replying to @DavidSteadson @RickCarlsson and

      Or did he just submit the 2020 mortality data with no comparison, and the reviewer suggested comparing it to the immediate 4 months instead of the previous year? None of this seems plausible to me. We *today* now have some data showing the causes of death were likely not covid.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Rickard Carlsson‏ @RickCarlsson Mar 5
      Replying to @DavidSteadson @JacobGudiol @GidMK

      The problem is lack of transparency in the research and in the editorial process including the peer review. Peer reviewers often request bizarre things. Anyway although data wasn’t strictly available, children dying would be common knowledge in Sweden. >

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Rickard Carlsson‏ @RickCarlsson Mar 5
      Replying to @RickCarlsson @DavidSteadson and

      > even with small numbers that big difference wouldn’t have gone unnoticed here. He should still have verified it before submitting though.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Nicholas Loubere‏ @NDLoubere Mar 5
      Replying to @RickCarlsson @DavidSteadson and

      I understand your point that there are far worse examples of data manipulation, but I don't think that is a reason to downplay what seems to have happened here. Publishing a big claim while hiding data that may contradict it, even if you think it doesn't, is serious. No?

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. Rickard Carlsson‏ @RickCarlsson Mar 5
      Replying to @NDLoubere @DavidSteadson and

      Yes, it should be corrected. That’s very important. Still, the overall method where it’s up to the author to pool ages as they see fit, rather than following some fixed standard set out before analysis, and the poor review process is the real story. >

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 5
      Replying to @RickCarlsson @NDLoubere and

      I reckon the real story is that this sort of shoddy study with selective research is so common. The weirdest part about this whole argument is that it's basically reinforced my initial comment - that it sounds like p hacking - but because p hacking is ubiquitous...

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol Mar 5
      Replying to @GidMK @RickCarlsson and

      Would you still consider it p-hacking if the comparison dates were requested by the reviewer as is claimed? If that claim is true then all of the data for those dates was published from the start

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 5
      Replying to @JacobGudiol @RickCarlsson and

      I'm not sure a bad reviewer makes much of a difference? It's super easy to include stuff in supplements, the fact that none of this is uncommon is also a problem

      11:35 PM - 5 Mar 2021
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        2. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol Mar 5
          Replying to @GidMK @RickCarlsson and

          I have very little experience with submitting. I do however read a lot of studies since that is more or less my job. I can't remember reading supplements where there was data included not even mentioned in the main article and from entirely different dates

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        3. Magnus Nordborg‏ @magnusnordborg Mar 6
          Replying to @JacobGudiol @GidMK and

          Common to “hide” stuff in supplements, but you are def expected to catalog everything at least there, including weird data that you decided not to use. “We determined that Helmut had sometimes walked into laser during experiment — runs containing ‘Helmut Blips’ were not used.”

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