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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 1

      36/n Frankly, I don't want your money, give it to something more worthwhile like this charity that provides menstrual products to homeless women they're much more deserving than I amhttps://www.sharethedignity.org.au/ 

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 2

      37/n One final point - I honestly hope ivermectin works. Based on the current evidence, it looks like the benefit will be modest, but it's still not unlikely that it helps a bit. Problem is, current best evidence is also consistent with harm

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 2

      38/n Ugh, one other note - one shitty website that makes mistakes does not "disprove" ivermectin, just like the website never proved much itself. The question is still open in my opinion, regardless of ivmmeta

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 3

      Health Nerd Retweeted Health Nerd

      39/n An addition - this was a very unfair thing to say about this piece of research, which is very well-done. The issue is not with these researchers, but the ivmmeta website itself and I should've been more clearhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1422044424436011009?s=20 …

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      23/n Also, hilariously, this study used the last observation carried forward method to account for missing data in symptom reporting. You can actually see this in the supplementaries - it's possible the entire result comes from a few people not filling out their diaries properly pic.twitter.com/rA7PO4o4hd
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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 8

      Health Nerd Retweeted Health Nerd

      40/n A brief update - this was an unfair point to make - the trial does indeed have a control group (such as it is), just not a very useful onehttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1422049090007797766?s=20 …

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      30/n Moreover, sometimes the website just does stuff that is wildly strange Here's a study with no placebo control. They appear to have calculated a relative risk of...whether the patients in this hospital got treated with ivermectin? WHY pic.twitter.com/qH9PRewSPS
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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 8

      Health Nerd Retweeted Kyle Sheldrick

      41/n You can also see some more examples of where the authors of this pseudoscientific website contradict their own stated methodology in this brief thread from Dr. Sheldrickhttps://twitter.com/K_Sheldrick/status/1431507081496969222?s=20 …

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      Kyle Sheldrick @K_Sheldrick
      Replying to @EduEngineer @GidMK
      OK, are we doing this? Let's do this. Let's go through the first set. The prophylaxis studies. Viral positivity is the least important outcome so presumably the five here should not report any symptom, hospitalisation or mortality outcomes, will there be an error in these 5? pic.twitter.com/0TxoZ7hS7H
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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 8

      42/n And worth noting that we've come forward with serious concerns about fraud for 4 studies that remain up in the main analysis on the website Not scientific at all, but, well, not unexpected!

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 23h23 hours ago

      43/n People keep directing me to this pseudoscientific website, so I might as well keep pointing out issues This study - Ahmed et al - found no benefit for ivermectin on duration of hospitalization, cough, or sore throat. So why is it presented as massively positive?pic.twitter.com/Xo9De14u0h

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 23h23 hours ago

      44/n Well, in the ivermectin groups (there were two of them), of those who had a fever at the start of the treatment in one group everyone recovered. In the placebo group, 3 people still had a fever at day 5pic.twitter.com/L28viBtMOY

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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 23h23 hours ago

      45/n Now, obviously this contradicts ivm meta's stated methodology - they should use hospitalization length which is more severe than reported symptoms - but it's also quite funny because they've even excluded ONE OF THE IVERMECTIN GROUPS

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 23h23 hours ago

      46/n In reality, this trial should have a point estimate above 1, because in this trial people treated with ivermectin stayed (non-significantly) longer in hospital than the placebo group, but the website is only interested in promoting ivermectin, not factspic.twitter.com/bDBVOuq0KC

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        1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 23h23 hours ago

          47/n You can even see just how dishonest this website is when looking at cough. It's debatable whether cough is more severe than fever, because there's no assessment in the paper, but the placebo group did better than ivermectin in this trial on cough (p=0.15)pic.twitter.com/0qfHZbtXKp

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