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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 Jun 16

      Another day, another viral article being cited as proof that ivermectin can cure COVID-19 The newest example is even more depressing than previous ones somehow 1/npic.twitter.com/B6IlgGWZS2

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      2/n The paper is here, and mostly it's just a perspective piece in a minor Nature offshoot (Journal of Antibiotics, IF 2.4) written by two members of what I can only describe as a pro-ivermectin advocacy grouphttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5#Sec11 …

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      3/n The advocacy group is called Front Line COVID Critical Care Alliance, and has a very flashy website that basically advocates for ivermectin (and vitamin D, melatonin, and mouthwash) as the cure of all COVID illspic.twitter.com/zfl62MAtFn

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      4/n Now, this might be something of a red flag for publication in a scientific journal, but this affiliation isn't mentioned in the paper or the conflicts of interest which is a bit oddpic.twitter.com/TDmG9qf3Lg

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      5/n The review itself is mostly fairly boring - it is a reiteration of the same lab-bench data that was used initially as a reason to trial ivermectin, although the language is quite strange at times ("unsuspecting victims" is, uh, quirky)pic.twitter.com/tGQheUNY2c

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      6/n But some parts of the piece are simply wild. For example, instead of citing the Cochrane, BMJ, or other recent systematic reviews, the authors cite ivmmeta dot com, an anonymous website that is far from scientificpic.twitter.com/Eg4ZDdsahR

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      7/n Indeed, the authors have copied the information in this paragraph directly from this shoddy website, leading to this wonderful sentence making its way into a published scientific paperpic.twitter.com/U4NIgERNOw

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      8/n Complete misinterpretations of p-values aside, the website is one of many really bizarre anonymous efforts to push ivermectin and other unproven medications for COVID-19

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

      9/n More rigorous reviews have pointed out that virtually all published studies on ivermectin are of extremely low quality, but you wouldn't know that from the summary presented on ivmmeta dot com!pic.twitter.com/d0Ma4NoPMA

      8:13 PM - 16 Jun 2021
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

          10/n In fact, one of my favourite parts is where a WHO investigation that concluded that ivermectin should not be given outside of a clinical trial as the evidence is so woeful is misrepresented as showing that ivermectin is massively beneficial!pic.twitter.com/MARkZRcsR5

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

          11/n (As a side note, the odds ratio is apparently presented because the WHO didn't "provide the details required to calculate the RR". That's weird, because the WHO did in fact calculate an RR in the report)pic.twitter.com/LPqkYmwn6A

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

          12/n Anyway, this website is what I would call solidly pseudoscientific - mimicking science closely enough to trap the unwary, but so filled with errors that the evidence is largely worthless

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

          13/n Even funnier than all this, perhaps, is the conclusion of the paper, because despite this all being used online as proof that ivermectin works perfectly that's not even what the authors saypic.twitter.com/ZvTLgeoOYM

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

          14/n I mean, "repurposing of approved drugs such as ivermectin" has been the focus of most of our attention since March 2020, it's not like we needed that push

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16

          15/n Anyway, it is very odd that this paper was published as is, it has at least a few pretty bizarre red flags, but that hasn't stopped it reaching an Altmetric of 4,500 Yay, science!

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        2. Sandra Fay‏ @sfaysocialist Jun 17
          Replying to @GidMK

          Well this is simply not true. Some points on ur thread are alright. But no rigorous review has justified evidence beclassed as extremely low quality.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 17
          Replying to @sfaysocialist

          The WHO review from the next tweet: "very low certainty of evidence"

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        2. Stephen Dugmore‏ @StephenBDugmore Jun 17
          Replying to @GidMK

          Could you please point the direction to these studies?

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        3. Stephen Dugmore‏ @StephenBDugmore Jun 17
          Replying to @StephenBDugmore @GidMK

          Correction, could you please point the direction to these reviews?

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