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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. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 7 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @foodnuthealth

      Right now the @WHO is encouraging developing nations to “get some NFGs” .... Here in Australia, articles like yours are defending status quo and imply - if you criticize, it’s bc you can’t science. It shuts down debate - and serious and urgent debate

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 May 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @foodnuthealth @WHO

      I think developing guidelines is a good (an important) step in advocating for social interventions. Hard to convince politicians to legislate when you don't have solid recommendations

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Alex  🔬 ☕️ 🐱 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @indigo5alpha 7 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians and

      Saying that something is politically expedient is different from saying “disagreement is a person ‘ignoring science’”.

      2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 May 2018
      Replying to @indigo5alpha @WeDietitians and

      True fact. Fortunately the guidelines are both politically expedient and based on robust scientific evidence 👍

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Alex  🔬 ☕️ 🐱 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @indigo5alpha 7 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians and

      You have many professionals disagreeing with you on the latter point, and have not engaged on the history of DG (evidence against robustness), instead relying on the NHMRC to do the review, and then shifting the goalposts to say that it's politically expedient for public policy.

      2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 May 2018
      Replying to @indigo5alpha @WeDietitians and

      I have ~far more~ professionals agreeing with me, they just don't jump into my mentions to do so lol. I'm also not going to do my own review of the evidence, I think the NHMRC has that pretty well covered and I don't have 2 years' of my life to dedicate to it anyway!

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    7. Alex  🔬 ☕️ 🐱 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @indigo5alpha 7 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians and

      I think that pretty much covers it, doesn't it? You don't have time to read the actual science underpinning DG and make your own judgment or factor its history, but people's disagreement is "ignoring science". And it's OK because some people secretly agree with you!

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 May 2018
      Replying to @indigo5alpha @WeDietitians and

      ...I've read a number of the studies, but clearly I'm not as expert as the people who wrote the review, recommendations etc. That's why the NHMRC did the review, surely - because not every person involved in policy has time to read ~1,000 papers

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    9. Alex  🔬 ☕️ 🐱 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @indigo5alpha 7 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians and

      The thing is - which ~1000 papers? We all know that there are literally hundreds of thousands of nutrition papers, with different grades of reliability through the literature. Pick 1000 and you get one answer, another 1000 and you get another. No one can read them all, and

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    10. Alex  🔬 ☕️ 🐱 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @indigo5alpha 7 May 2018
      Replying to @indigo5alpha @GidMK and

      depending on the set up of the committee and the individuals chosen to oversee the process, there will be blind spots. Yet this is people's health we are talking about, on a national scale. I think these biases are highly worth interrogating.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 May 2018
      Replying to @indigo5alpha @WeDietitians and

      I mean, you can read and interrogate the methods quite easily they're in the NHMRC review document. I'd say they were pretty solid as far as systematic reviews go, the NHMRC tends to be good with this sort of thing

      6:40 PM - 7 May 2018
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        2. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 7 May 2018
          Replying to @GidMK @indigo5alpha and

          I've read them, and I think I just listed a number of flaws in the methodology, and the human elements of the review and the oversight committee. The continued appeal to authority - just bc "uni" or "science" or "professional label" does NOT make one infallible

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        3. Alex  🔬 ☕️ 🐱 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @indigo5alpha 7 May 2018
          Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

          Yes, I read the methods and there were obvious flaws - like there are for any other publication or review. You know more about the internal politics/history that shaped the document, but I was concerned just based on methods. "NHMRC tends to be good" isn't good enough for me.

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