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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

      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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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 …

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       🕷️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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    5. 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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      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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    6. 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

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28

      25/n There is now an expression of concern published by the journal about the paperhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/705 …

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28

      26/n An interesting point about this paper is that it's actually a perfect example of how peer-review can fail. The people who reviewed the article assumed that the stats and methodology were reasonable, and based on that assumption recommended that it be published

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 28

      27/n This is a prime example of what @jamesheathers and I wrote about recently - the study got through peer review, may be retracted, but the damage has already very much been donehttps://www.statnews.com/2021/06/08/scientific-publishing-new-weapon-for-the-next-crisis-the-rapid-correction/ …

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    10. Alan McElligott‏ @AMCELL Jul 2
      Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers

      I recently resigned as an editor of a different mdpi journal. They published a paper I had rejected. The admin just ignored my concerns, and were too busy rushing to care.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 2
      Replying to @AMCELL @jamesheathers

      Not a good sign!

      2:58 AM - 2 Jul 2021
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        1. Alan McElligott‏ @AMCELL Jul 2
          Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers

          Money talks....... nothing else.

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