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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. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      Let's take a look at this @BMC Infectious Diseases paper claiming that methylene blue can be used to treat COVID-19. Let's do a proper post-publication peer review. Because the peer review system completely failed here.https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-021-05993-0 …

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    2. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      In short, the authors claim this: Cells infected with viruses are treated with methylene blue (MB). Then, cells are beamed with 670 nm light. MB absorbs the light energy, transfers it to nucleic acids, and thus kills viruses.

      5 replies 1 retweet 35 likes
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    3. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      I found several problems with this paper. All of these could have been raised during peer review/editorial screening.

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    4. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      Problem 1. Conflicts of interest. The treatment is performed in an "BX-1 AIDS treatment instrument", developed by Boxin Biotechnology Development LTD (Beijing, China). Guess where three of the authors work?pic.twitter.com/e1U2wx2xkX

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    5. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      Now, this is not necessarily a problem. (Who knows, this might be a Wonderful Machine! It might even say Ping! - https://youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc … ) But conflicts need to be declared. And the authors happily declared they had "no competing interests". That seems .... a bit off.

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    6. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      The two references mentioned in the Introduction - 18 and 19 - are two patents, presumably from the same authors.pic.twitter.com/YWE9vOMkOQ

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    7. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest May 3

      Another problem: Figure 1 appears to show four overlapping panels. Now, the legend is a bit unclear, and does not seem to match the labels (no light/40 min light) so maybe I am misunderstanding this. But I do not think all four show the same sample.pic.twitter.com/NNSPwKQiaV

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 3
      Replying to @MicrobiomDigest

      Looks like there might be even more overlap there? It seems like they might've just copied various sections from the bottom left panel onto other onespic.twitter.com/5kmR4GmaPl

      8:29 PM - 3 May 2021
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        1. Pieter Peach‏ @DrPieterPeach May 3
          Replying to @GidMK @MicrobiomDigest

          This is fun

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        2. Sebastian S. Cocioba‏ @ATinyGreenCell May 3
          Replying to @GidMK @MicrobiomDigest

          Any possible way someone could have mistaken the upload and added a few panned shots to the figure? Careless, for sure. At least no scaling changes...this is unfortunate :/

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 3
          Replying to @ATinyGreenCell @MicrobiomDigest

          To me the fact that the images have been shaded differently makes this unlikely, but not my area of expertise

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        2. SpacePlant (they/them)‏ @aspaceplant May 11
          Replying to @GidMK @MicrobiomDigest

          I don't think it's pasted, I don't see pasting artifacts (Altho, they might just be better at photoshop than others). Either there was a bigger image and they cropped it differently + played with contrast or they just moved the slide + played with the illumination

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        3. SpacePlant (they/them)‏ @aspaceplant May 11
          Replying to @aspaceplant @GidMK @MicrobiomDigest

          yeah nvm the photoshop skills... can't crop 2 images the same size...pic.twitter.com/cGfMCEBtAy

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