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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. The Real Truther‏ @thereal_truther Jun 28

      @numbers_truth is she accurate when she claims excess deaths in 2017 were greater than 2020? @greg_travis & @AtomsksSanakan was she telling the truth about the .15 IFR? @GidMK how about her PCR claims? This might be a good one for you to debunk. I'm simply tired of these tropes

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @thereal_truther @numbers_truth and

      At a very basic level, the studies cited there generally do not support the assertions made. As one tiny example, the IFR for the US from the study that is cited is 0.3-0.4%, not 0.15%

      2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @GidMK @thereal_truther and

      The PCR thing is a piece of bizarre debunked pseudoscience with no factual basis whatsoever - presumably this is a conspiracist website of some sort?

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    4. Daniel Fríes‏ @friesdan Jun 28
      Replying to @GidMK @thereal_truther and

      Would you please point me to a debunk of the PCR thing?

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @friesdan @thereal_truther and

      Health Nerd Retweeted ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ  🦠 🤧 🧬 🥼 🦟 🧻 🧙‍♂️

      @MackayIM wrote a good one a while back specific to the Drosten stuffhttps://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1336499850586718208?s=20 …

      Health Nerd added,

      ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ  🦠 🤧 🧬 🥼 🦟 🧻 🧙‍♂️Verified account @MackayIM
      That website opinion attack piece on the Corman/Drosten RT-rPCR tests has a few confused & sometimes very wrong comments. I'll preface this thread with a *presumption* I'm making - these authors haven't worked on or with this test themselves. And that matters a lot if true.
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    6. Daniel Fríes‏ @friesdan Jun 28
      Replying to @GidMK @thereal_truther and

      The main criticism of Drosten I remember from hearing @Kevin_McKernan talk about it was a lack of control for swab/sample size - which would come from comparing human genetic material signal to the viral signal. Not addressed here - A shame there's a communication block.

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @friesdan @thereal_truther and

      Let me put it this way - the argument is a bit of a nothing regardless, because Drosten was just one paper anyway. We developed several tests locally in Australia. It's a complete non-sequitur spread by disingenuous denialists

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    8. Daniel Fríes‏ @friesdan Jun 28
      Replying to @GidMK @thereal_truther and

      I know it doesn't apply in the US either, where I am. But my understanding is that a significant percentage of the European tests were based on Drosten, and lacked this control. Is that incorrect?

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28
      Replying to @friesdan @thereal_truther and

      No idea, haven't checked every country in the world. Sounds like nonsense though, especially given that most of the objections raised about Drosten's paper were factually mistaken

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. Daniel Fríes‏ @friesdan Jun 28
      Replying to @GidMK @thereal_truther and

      Well tell you what, as a layperson interested in science with enough of a background to know what I don't know, it's quite frustrating to hear diametrically opposed viewpoints from various experts, who never debate, but instead just dismiss each other's "facts" as nonsense.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 29
      Replying to @friesdan @thereal_truther and

      Except in this case you have all of the world's virologists on one side and a cannabis entrepreneur on the other 🤔🤔🤔

      12:15 AM - 29 Jun 2021
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