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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. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      I took a deep dive into the data for ivermectin for covid-19. Promising data, made less promising by a series of red flags in the key studies. If ever there was a need for open data, this is it. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954681?src=soc_tw_share … via @medscape

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    2. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      2. The meta-analysis I discuss shows promising results... but it includes a bunch of pre-prints. There's nothing wrong with that, but it means some of the studies haven't undergone peer review...pic.twitter.com/fTp5WWFrep

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    3. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      3. And when I checked out two of the trials (Niaee et al from Iran and Elgazaar et al from Egypt) that drive the results, I found some red flags...

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    4. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      4. The Iran trial has a surprisingly high number of patients who, despite being sick with COVID are PCR negative... What's worse, they are differentially PCR negative between the treatment and control groups. (P-value calculated by me, binomial). Not c/w good randomziation.pic.twitter.com/j8MRGDhQ7y

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    5. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      5. The Egypt trial, another one with big beneficial effects, has multiple statistically significant differences in baseline factors between treatment and control groups (p-values again calculated by me, t-test).pic.twitter.com/zXPFjIIF1s

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    6. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      6. I'm not saying these trials are fake, or aren't really randomized, but peer review would give these authors a chance to address these concerns, figure out what's up, re-analyze their data, etc.

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    7. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      7. Peer review takes time though, so I am strongly encouraging the authors of these studies to release their full, deidentified datasets to a neutral service like http://datadryad.com  so we can all take a look and see.

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    8. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      8. Open data fixes problems like this. Without it, we literally don't know what to believe. And without good science, we are adrift. /rant

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    9. F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE‏ @fperrywilson Jul 14

      PS. shoutout to @GidMK who has already flagged some issues with the Iran trial.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 15
      Replying to @fperrywilson

      Health Nerd Retweeted Health Nerd

      Turns out the issues may be bigger than we first thoughthttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1415764372362649601?s=20 …

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      Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
      My new piece on ivermectin for COVID-19, potential fraud, and some really astonishing implications Thread to come soon https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602 …
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        1. Will Murphy‏ @Aceofspades256 Jul 15
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