Cedric Chin on Twitter: "What I need to learn is that I shouldn’t believe a paper just because I can read it, or just because it’s published in a journal. If I lack proper expertise in the field, there are likely huge gaps in my interpretation. Why it’s hard: I cannot know what I don’t know." / Twitter

Learning moment for me: I read the original piece and bought what it was saying. Here’s a thread that contextualises the paper on NSAIDs and virus interactions, from an actual expert.

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Dr. Angela Rasmussen

@angie_rasmussen

Mar 14, 2020

This is lighting my timeline up and it's getting on my nerves. To be clear: there is no evidence whatsoever that ibuprofen, NSAIDs, and other anti-inflammatories increase susceptibility to #SARSCoV2 #HCoV19 #COVID19 #coronavirus. reuters.com/article/us-hea

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

What I need to learn is that I shouldn’t believe a paper just because I can read it, or just because it’s published in a journal. If I lack proper expertise in the field, there are likely huge gaps in my interpretation. Why it’s hard: I cannot know what I don’t know.

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I’ve already been caught twice by this mistake. The first time was an over-reliance/obsession over the r0 number for COVID-19. This was stupid. Then I bought the NSAID piece with zero scepticism. Man, synthesising technical knowledge as a layperson is really really difficult.

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