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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 Aug 9

      For those interested, the number of very likely fraudulent ivermectin studies showing a huge benefit has shot up from 1 a few weeks ago to 5 now I suspect there's more to come 😬

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 9

      News will probably be out this/next week on two of those studies, and the other two we're still working on

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 9

      But the broader message here is that *all* of these potential frauds were so low-quality that no one should've ever used them as evidence. They were, at face-value, woeful

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 9

      Also, it should not have been a group of unpaid randoms working on this in their spare time, why aren't the ivermectin crowd critically appraising their own studies and CHECKING THIS STUFF?

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        1. Mads‏ @DumbDumbMM Aug 9
          Replying to @GidMK

          They don't want to discover problems.

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        2. Tom Clarke‏ @tomeclarke Aug 9
          Replying to @GidMK

          Seems like a good way to improve on peer review would be to hire a bunch of these 'randoms' and pay them to do this as their day job.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 9
          Replying to @tomeclarke

          Yep

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        2. InCytometry - Graham Bottley‏ @InCytometry Aug 10
          Replying to @Pe99K @GidMK

          No-one is banned from talking about it.

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        1. Michael Brown‏ @MJIBrown Aug 9
          Replying to @GidMK

          One could say the same of climate sceptic* papers that slide into the literature. Similar motivations perhaps. Here’s an example from two decades ago.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon_and_Baliunas_controversy …

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        2. Paul Philp‏ @pphilp Aug 9
          Replying to @GidMK

          I like it - "Open Source Peer Review". The software world is driven (in part) by open-sourcing work. To be considered a Tier1 coder, participating in open-source is almost a requirement. You may have started a trend ....

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        3. Tom Buytaert‏ @tbuytaer Aug 9
          Replying to @pphilp @GidMK

          isn't @PubPeer a kind of Open Source Peer Review?

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        2. Leslie Nolen‏ @LeslieRadial Aug 9
          Replying to @GidMK

          Serious question, why do you assume they were unpaid randoms? In my experience, bad faith "science" at this scale is not a passion project. It's at the intersection of misinformation and money. Have seen it over & over.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 9
          Replying to @LeslieRadial

          No I mean the error-checkers are unpaid randoms. I'm not getting paid for this and none of the other people doing it are either. We're also not ivermectin researchers

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