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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 Jul 26

      Another day, another two ivermectin studies that have impossible values in their tables of results. Both included in meta-analyses (rated as high risk of bias this time) This is getting truly insane

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 26

      The entire ivermectin for COVID-19 literature is just...awash with this absolute trash. Studies that are pre-registered after publication. Tables of results that contradict the text. Percentages that are impossible

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 26

      Endless examples of RCTs where the analysis plan is a single sentence long (we did chi-squared and some t-tests, p<0.05 was significant)

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 26

      And these are just the SURFACE issues. The deeper stuff is even more wild - some of these trials almost certainly have missing data that they didn't report, and others may never have happened at all

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 26

      How has this been missed, over and over again, by serious researchers? Many of these studies are included in meta-analyses. Most of them are cited more than a dozen times. And they are either totally woeful or potentially fraud

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        1. CeeBee‏ @ceegarciabee Jul 26
          Replying to @GidMK

          Ty

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        2. nosh‏ @nosh15 Jul 26
          Replying to @GidMK

          @threadreaderapp pls unroll

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp Jul 26
          Replying to @nosh15

          Saluti, here is your unroll: Another day, another two ivermectin studies that have impossible… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1419892710391959556.html … Have a good day. 🤖

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        2. choccadoc‏ @choccadoc Jul 26
          Replying to @JoshuaHudsonMBC @GidMK

          There's one in development

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        2. Fr Blob No Not That Blob‏ @BobNLestrange Jul 26
          Replying to @GidMK

          My question is why Ivermectin? It seems a bizarre drug to build sand castles on.

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        3. Deborah Nock‏ @debsyn1 Jul 27
          Replying to @BobNLestrange @GidMK

          A bit like hydroxychloroquine - somebody powerful no doubt has a vested interest in it...

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        1. Sjors Provoost‏ @provoost Jul 27
          Replying to @GidMK

          Because the meta-analysis authors were motivated? I would expect a general pattern of (slight) bias in favor of any given drug, because those people are more motivated to write such an analysis. Unless they have a competing product.

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        2. Emily R Smith, ScD MPH‏Verified account @DrEmilyRSmith Jul 27
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          I’m honestly not sure I would have noticed. Risk of bias and GRADE tools don’t really prompt you to asses the plausibility of Table 1 values. I don’t have experience/tarnishing in IDing fraud. Do we need a new tool?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 27
          Replying to @DrEmilyRSmith

          Maybe, but frankly most of these papers are so low quality that I can't understand how anyone included them in reviews in the first place anyway 😕

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