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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

      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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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

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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. 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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      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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        1. Kitty‏ @KittyOwen Jun 16
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          Fabulous. Yay science! Funny how some IDW proponents of publishing faux papers as hoax are the same set not pushing this pseudoscience from a contrarian position.

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        1. Balgor‏ @Balgor11 Jun 16
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          Balgor Retweeted David Boulware, MD MPH

          I'm waiting for results from:https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/1402752388704833536?s=20 …

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          David Boulware, MD MPHVerified account @boulware_dr
          US Nationwide trial for #COVID19 testing #ivermectin vs. #fluvoxamine vs. +/- Metformin for outpatient, early #coronavirus with <7days of symptoms. Participate from home - remote trial by phone/internet. No in-person visits needed. http://covidout.com  pic.twitter.com/OdU1poVDxQ
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        1. Nick Douvis‏ @MedHatDentist Jun 16
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          And yet we tell people to wear masks and the evidence is even weaker. This is the year of policy/treatments based on weak data. So it’s par for the course.

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        1. Left Shoulder‏ @WorstAtRoutine Jun 16
          Replying to @GidMK

          How could it pass peer review? If this could, we can not trust any paper anywhere (or at least in this journal).

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        1. Stephen Griffin‏ @SGriffin_Lab Jun 17
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          Great thread! The irony of course is that they actually discredit themselves all the more by publishing stuff like this... You can't polish a 💩

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        1. Adolfo Calvo-Parra Martínez‏ @adolfCP Jun 17
          Replying to @GidMK

          I would add to this review that one paragraph in that paper, says that some drugs have been approved against COVID19 with lack of evidence. But it doesn't mention which drugs have been involved in that case, which it sounds poorly scientific.

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        1. Arão Belitardo‏ @Arao_B_Oliveira Jun 17
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          That's y it was published, I mean, the Altmetric...

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        2. fred walton‏ @fredwalton216 Jun 17
          Replying to @GidMK

          Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are the cult drugs of the COVID-19 pandemic. And no matter what’s written to debunk the claims of efficacy for these drugs, as effective therapeutics for COVID-19, their believers simply won’t be persuaded or deterred from their quest.

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        1. Ildiko  ☕️‏ @IldikoMe Jun 17
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          Wow.

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