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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 27

      16/n Using reporting systems like this is a common anti-vaccine trope. We KNOW that many of the events in the reporting system ARE NOT LINKED TO VACCINATION because we investigate them carefully

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      17/n Because of this, we have two awful, useless numbers being compared to each other. The true rate of deaths CAUSED by vaccines is 100sx lower than this paper calculates, and the number of deaths PREVENTED is 100sx higher

      3 replies 21 retweets 244 likes
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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      18/n Taking the highest death rate seen caused by a vaccine so far - Astrazeneca - we'd get around 1 death per 500,000 vaccinations Using an NNTV assuming a 30% population prevalence, we'd get 1 life saved per ~500 vaccinations

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      19/n Now, neither of these metrics are necessarily useful in this way, and people will yell at me for doing this (rightly, it's a bit silly), but EVEN USING THIS FLAWED RUBRIC vaccines save 1,000x more lives than they cost

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      20/n Anyway, this study is flawed in so many basic ways that it's pretty irretrievable. It should be retracted as soon as possible to avoid further damage

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      21/n Another note, H/T to @ScottinVictoria - the reviewer comments are pretty astonishing to read. Not even a mention of why NNTV is worthless in this context, and no argument about the manifestly wrong use of adverse event reports https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/693/review_report …

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 27

      Health Nerd Retweeted  🕷️The wife scientific 🕷️

      22/n Also worth pointing out that two members of the editorial board of the journal have resigned so far because of this terrible studyhttps://twitter.com/ProfKatieEwer/status/1409125241142513670?s=20 …

      Health Nerd added,

       🕷️The wife scientific 🕷️ @ProfKatieEwer
      I have resigned from the Editorial Board of @Vaccines_MDPI following the publication of this article. It is grossly negligent and I can't believe it passed peer-review. I hope it will be retracted. @MDPIOpenAccess @ratripp #AcademicTwitter https://twitter.com/pjvanerp/status/1408707779620114432 …
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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28

      Health Nerd Retweeted Health Nerd

      23/n also as a couple of people have pointed out, this tweet is incorrect. I mixed up the ARR of disease prevention with death, in actuality the ARR would approach the death rate in the population x 0.84 - in most places this would be about 1 per 100/200https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1409293104063029252?s=19 …

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      Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
      10/n If you assume that everyone who stays alive will get infected without a vaccine eventually - which is a fact - the ABSOLUTE risk difference approaches the RELATIVE risk difference, and so NNTV = 1/0.84 = 1.2 I.e. 1 life saved for every 1.2 vaccines given!
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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28

      24/n Oh, and because it always comes up in these discussions, I've never been paid a cent by any pharmaceutical company, all of my funding is through the Australian state and federal governments, the only additional income I get is from writing locked posts on Medium

      3 replies 3 retweets 61 likes
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    10.  🇪🇸 Balkrai  🇪🇸‏ @balkraix Jun 28
      Replying to @GidMK

       🇪🇸 Balkrai  🇪🇸 Retweeted Pieter Borger

      You posted this because of this accusation, didn't you? instead of trying to debunk the thread he simply claim that you have a conflict of interest beacause Pharmaffia xdhttps://twitter.com/BorgerPieter/status/1409446609344139267?s=20 …

       🇪🇸 Balkrai  🇪🇸 added,

      Pieter Borger @BorgerPieter
      Science will decide, not the pseudoscience of pharmaffia, their politicians and "experts". Their data cannot be trusted, anyway. Pharmaffia has a very bad track record of scientific integrity, so I expect no honest science from them at all. Read: https://www.amazon.de/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare-ebook/dp/B07WYC2244 … https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1409293078817427457 …
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @balkraix

      Lol not really, I hadn't even seen that. People always get very silly about these things, as if the only reason for someone to disagree with them is that they're paid to do it

      3:35 PM - 28 Jun 2021
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      • the sailing science shill ⛵️ 🇪🇸 Balkrai 🇪🇸
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