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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

Sydney, New South Wales
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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Jan 2018

      I just published "Energy Drinks Aren’t Poison", looking at recent claims of energy drinks being the worst thing ever #science #health #scicommhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/energy-drinks-arent-poison-c9a4df107bb3 …

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Jan 2018

      A skeptical view of recent scare stories in the media FYI @BettePiddler @scopedbylarry @JessicaLexicus @Neuro_Skeptic @timsenior @coopesdetat @motek42 @NutritionWonk @WeDietitians @mem_somerville @DrRobertOConnor @pash22

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    3. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 17 Jan 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @scopedbylarry and

      Wait Mr Nerd...sometimes I am at odds with your subject matter, and I know you won't mind me asking bc you also know I too am here to learn...but energy drinks?! I get you are "undoing crappy journalism" here as the main untangle - which in a silo is true...however... 1.

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    4. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 17 Jan 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

      there is evidence these drinks can result in a psychotic episode for teenagers with and without a history of mental illness, without alcohol - this work dates back here in Melbourne to the early 2000s at @orygen_aus under @PatMcGorry 2.

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    5. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 17 Jan 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

      the thing is, your critique kind of neutralises the [entire body of evidence] on adverse outcomes from Energy drinks because of one poorly-written piece of representative science... I guess what I am saying is, for some these bevs can be "poison" 3.

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    6. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 17 Jan 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

      and while us as translating scientists may see "poison" as pharmacologically incorrect, we also know "one mans poison is another mans pleasure". 4.

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    7. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 17 Jan 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

      If a drink can trigger even one psychotic episode in an unsuspecting teenager, balanced against nutritional value of the drink i.e its positive contribution to our food supply, why take the edge off its negative public positioning? 5.

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    8. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 17 Jan 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

      Particularly where there is so many other topics to cover! What to do about peer review? Why the need for all these "translational research" centres? The epi of what to eat and the dominance of white-people science? 6.

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jan 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians

      It's not a bad point. I guess the main issue for me isn't whether energy drinks are bad at all, but whether they are worse than commonly accepted risks like coffee

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jan 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians

      Demonizing them based on the fact that a tiny percentage of people report seizures - for example - is a bit problematic unless we are willing to talk about the negative health problems associated with lots of daily activities

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jan 2018
          Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians

          Not that we shouldn't be doing that, but I find it infuriating that people are happy to get angry about energy drinks when really they are ~probably~ not much worse than a multivitamin in a double-shot latte (because that's 90% of what they are)

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        3. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 18 Jan 2018
          Replying to @GidMK

          I’ll agree with that in principle. We’ve got to save our anger for the big ones tho. Like corporate infiltration of generations of dietitians so much so we can’t even see it anymore! Shoosh now, reading your essay

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