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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. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie Mar 29

      https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1376376497787707392 …pic.twitter.com/pGLsM1z4u2

      3 replies 40 retweets 330 likes
    2. Jan Wieczorek‏ @JanWieczorek14 Mar 29
      Replying to @StuartJRitchie

      To be fair, the T-shirt man's (an others') constant snide remarks about 'non-epidemiologists' commenting on the pandemic response make the current outrage about credentialism somewhat hypocritical.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie Mar 29
      Replying to @JanWieczorek14

      I haven't seen that but if that's the case, two wrongs don't make a right!

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29
      Replying to @StuartJRitchie @JanWieczorek14

      I tweeted once about Emily Oster's article (somewhat sarcastically) that this is why economists shouldn't write about epidemiology. People who don't know me are very upset by this, but those who do realise that the lead author of my recent paper is an economist and I was joking

      4:43 PM - 29 Mar 2021
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        1. Will Lau‏ @WillWLau Mar 29
          Replying to @GidMK @StuartJRitchie @JanWieczorek14

          TBF it was hard to tell and cognitive dissonance is heavy on Twitter

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        2. Peter Sivey‏ @petesivey Apr 3
          Replying to @GidMK @StuartJRitchie @JanWieczorek14

          Peter Sivey Retweeted Health Nerd

          It doesn’t sound here like you were joking, and if you know anything about Emily oster, it’s pretty ridiculous to accuse her of not talking to epidemiologists or not having relevant expertise in this area. It sounded to most us health economists like credentialism.https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1376264499431268355 …

          Peter Sivey added,

          Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
          Replying to @MedHatDentist @ArisKatzourakis @CT_Bergstrom
          Do we? Oddly enough, I thought Oster's article was not bad overall, but she did make some epidemiological errors, in particular the analogy. Perhaps it should say "economists shouldn't write about epidemiology (without talking to some epis along the way)"
          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Peter Sivey‏ @petesivey Apr 3
          Replying to @petesivey @GidMK and

          Peter Sivey Retweeted Health Nerd

          Its clearly fine to criticise Oster’s errors (as you argue here) but you shouldn’t use her discipline to do so. This sounded smug to many of us.https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1376264794353758208 …

          Peter Sivey added,

          Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
          Replying to @GidMK @MedHatDentist and 2 others
          That being said, if I were to write a lengthy piece about how the latest financial crisis impacted children, and I made economic errors, do you think economists would shrug and say "oh well, most of the article is fine"?
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