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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 Apr 18

      2/n The article in question is a review of face masks. At face value, it's essentially an opinion piece arguing that masks are ineffective https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/#b0010 …pic.twitter.com/SljSy4RJCK

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      3/n Digging a little bit deeper, some of the stuff in here is pretty obviously wrong. For example, this incorrect statement about 99% mild/asymptomatic is referenced to Worldometers (not a specific graph, just the site)pic.twitter.com/Y95NqV3ICn

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      4/n This excerpt in quotation marks is not a direct quotation, and is given totally out of context from the source article by Fauci et alpic.twitter.com/Y2NwJiBOmd

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      5/n So the piece is wrong about COVID-19. But it also appears to be wrong about masks quite a lot

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      6/n For example, here's a paragraph where it is simply assumed that facemasks cause chronic hypoxemia/hypercapnia. The four references are 3 physiology textbooks and another review piecepic.twitter.com/g08YcWwuRA

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      7/n The WHO document referenced here was updated December 2020 and now completely contradicts both this assertion and indeed the entire paperpic.twitter.com/34kpeqBKzr

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      8/n So, I think it's fair to say that this opinion piece probably doesn't represent either a scientific study or even really evidence per se, and it gets a lot wrong about both masks and COVID-19 How did it get published?

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      9/n Well, the journal itself gives us a hint The description alone of Medical Hypotheses is pretty interesting stuffpic.twitter.com/VtaKiEWHii

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      10/n Reading some previous work published by the paper gives you an idea of what kind of "novel, radical" ideas which "would be rejected" elsewhere they sometimes put outpic.twitter.com/kPWt8bV0hN

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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      11/n (In the journal's defense, they do also put out lots of less fringe hypotheses, they appear to take seriously the idea of giving everyone's ideas a forum for discussion)

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      12/n As to the Stanford connection? Well, the author appears to be a physical therapist at a hospital near Stanford that has an affiliation for teaching purposes with the universitypic.twitter.com/XentFPtpUH

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

          13/n We can split hairs, but I'm not sure this qualifies as saying that the study is produced by Stanford

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

          14/n Anyway, regardless of what you think about masks, the paper has numerous errors and is probably not a useful resource for determining whether to use them or not

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

          15/n None of this has stopped anyone citing the "study" as evidence of anything, of course, because no one checks the facts of things they agree with!

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        2. IrmaGherd (Retired Nurse Thug) ✳ 💉 💉‏ @maureenchuck1 Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          So like Westmead Hospital and Sydney Uni?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18
          Replying to @maureenchuck1

          Healthcare systems in the US are often wildly complex, but I think a similar idea

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        2. Pass SR1 and save our democracy‏ @BabiesFree Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          At the VA? Has nothing to do with Stanford.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18
          Replying to @BabiesFree

          According to the VA website they've got some affiliation with Stanford, although they don't say how muchhttps://www.paloalto.va.gov/about/ 

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        1. Nick Blackmer, Information Hunter/Gatherer‏ @NickBlackmer1 Apr 19
          Replying to @GidMK

          Oddly, his LinkedIn profile doesn’t even list where he works.

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          Proud European from Austria 🇪🇺 🇦🇹  🌏 Retweeted Stanford Medicine

          Stanford statement 👇https://twitter.com/StanfordMed/status/1384957123864444930 …

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          Stanford Medicine strongly supports the use of face masks to control the spread of COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/DiY3sWezCN
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