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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 18

      Today's paper that I'm checking is not ivermectin, another treatment for COVID-19, and thus far every single percentage I've looked at in every table is impossible Cited 18 times so far

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

      This one feel free to have a look yourself:https://www.cureus.com/articles/50511-early-antiandrogen-therapy-with-dutasteride-reduces-viral-shedding-inflammatory-responses-and-time-to-remission-in-males-with-covid-19-a-randomized-double-blind-placebo-controlled-interventional-trial-eat-duta-androcov-trial---biochemical …

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

      It looks like the authors have mislabeled table 1, but the other tables I can't even explain. These percentages, for example, aren't possible for any values between 40-45 as far as I can tellpic.twitter.com/qbsP3iUHM0

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

      The whole thing is just...very odd. The p-values are also bizarre - I get a chi-squared p-value of 0.0005, not 0.036, for the last line

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

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      For those wondering what I mean when I say "impossible"https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1428174111834923018?s=20 …

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      Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
      Replying to @MedicalPool
      Percentages are a very easy check for quality - people have to be integers (can't have half a person), and so x/n = y% should always have a possible integer value for x given rounding
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

      Worth noting that lots of papers have one or two impossible values - often there is a person missing from one line in a table, that throws off the percentages. It's not ideal, but it's a very simple mistake It becomes worrying when this mistake is repeated a lot

      7:44 PM - 18 Aug 2021
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        2. Benvolio‏ @BenDelecto Aug 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          They also use a different impossible number between the table and the narrativepic.twitter.com/AdF6cWdMVP

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Benvolio‏ @BenDelecto Aug 18
          Replying to @BenDelecto @GidMK

          I noticed even if you play with different N numbers above and below 44 and 43, none of them line up with those specific values listed.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Bruce Nye (what/who)‏ @ThaumaturgeRN Aug 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          There is something else that struck me... How in the heck did they get "pre-COVID" data for CSR, ESR??? I did look at the recruitment chain and there isn't any way they have that honestly. Outside of imperfectly 'perfect' numbers there's some other oddities. What am I missing?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18
          Replying to @ThaumaturgeRN

          Tell me more - why is this weird

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        1. Tzed928 -- Get your damn vaccine!‏ @tzed928 Aug 19
          Replying to @GidMK

          The sample size is too small. The effect measures error bars overlap. It is not a good study.

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        1. Cesar Baima - Jornalista Científico e jacaré‏ @SoCiencia Aug 19
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          They don’t even know how to lie with numbers…

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        1. Dieles Stolk‏ @DCSZ14 Aug 19
          Replying to @GidMK

          How did it even get through peer-review? Wouldn't a peer-reviewer check those kind of things?

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