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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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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

    Health Nerd Retweeted Kyle Sheldrick

    So true. I would say that the shortest amount of time I spend actually investigating a paper is 3 hours. Often it takes days to get through enough that I'm fairly confident in my perspectivehttps://twitter.com/K_Sheldrick/status/1428193280857042947 …

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    Kyle Sheldrick @K_Sheldrick
    It takes 10 experts to refute one crank. People will send me an abstract that takes 5 minutes to read claiming "x" is a wonder drug for covid. By the time I go through ~200 pages of study, protocol, appendices etc to find it's rubbish they've got 10 new wonder drugs to debunk.
    9:07 PM - 18 Aug 2021
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    • Arend Bayer Tom Brown Pedro Nakamura Rob Pastorok Jason Elbaum Neora Alterman Elena Kevin Kehres Glen Pyle | #GetVaccinated 💉
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

        Anyway, one paper we started looking into earlier this week is almost certainly fraudulent, so that's a result I guess. Depressing

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 18

        (Not the one I was tweeting about earlier)

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      2. Traveler in the Undiscovered Country‏ @unseenhorizons Aug 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Okay, but that actually makes it... not true that it takes ten times the effort to respond? It takes more than three hours or even days to fabricate a paper.

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

        This is just how long it takes me to be relatively certain about something. It takes at least 3-4 people weeks of checking through shit to actually prove that a study is fraud

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      1. Immunisedmum 😷  🐨‏ @Mumbonator Aug 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        The gish-gallop tactic. It's exhausting bc it takes so long to research & refute each claim but then they throw another 10 at you.😠 😔

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      2. 猫好きな人‏ @ValoisDuBins Aug 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Do you think you are typical in this? The fashion for very fast turnaround bothers me. Aren’t reviewers usually busy enough that they can’t immediately make space for a day or more to do a review?

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      3. Matt Cooper  💙‏ @Nordiko01 Aug 19
        Replying to @ValoisDuBins @GidMK

        Most of us that review papers in our field do a great deal of the work in our own time. Taking papers home at night or doing them over the weekend or even on vacation is very common. No pay is given and no academic credit for this vital work.

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      1. Kasey Knopp‏ @mathom_house Aug 19
        Replying to @GidMK

        This isnwhy graduate students should be given the opportunity to be on the OTHER side of the review process. We would all be better researchers and writers. (Or at least be told some journals allow them the opportunity if they do not wish to do it with a mentor)

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      1. clotbuster‏ @clotbuster1 Aug 19
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        I am trying to develop a practical “worthometer” to see if doing so is really worth my time. My current approach is putting it aside and resurface it in 48 hours. I f I have the same initial reaction, then I do it.

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