Muting this dude
for repeatedly posting clickbait headlines from low quality studies reported in unreliable sources. (I never followed him.) Please stop retweeting this guy. @zeynephttps://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1249732760417247232 …
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Replying to @ZoeMcLaren @zeynep
I can't speak to the rest of what he has tweeted, but I suspect he is referring to this study which was published in a legitimate peer-reviewed journal: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-0424-9 … I'm not sure I would dismiss this out of hand.
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Replying to @RaganSmash @ZoeMcLaren
Study is real, his tweets are sensationalist and out-of-context and one should read the study till the end, also (unlike him).
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Replying to @zeynep @ZoeMcLaren
I agree the framing is reckless, I was more objecting to the "low quality studies reported in unreliable sources." COntext is important, and the caveat here is that it's a pseudovirus and they were working with T cell lines, rather than primary cells.
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Replying to @RaganSmash @ZoeMcLaren
Fair point. It's not a low-quality study at all.
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Replying to @zeynep @RaganSmash
Fair point. I wasn't criticizing the post, just his track record. It's the "boy who cried wolf". If you burn your credibility posting clickbaity articles then no one trusts you when you post good science. That's the problem.
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Replying to @ZoeMcLaren @zeynep
Wanted to follow up - the authors decided to retract this study, largely owing to their use of T cell *lines* rather than *primary* T cells, the caveat I mentioned before.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-0498-4 …
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Replying to @RaganSmash @zeynep
Wow! Nice catch
@RaganSmash! You were on it. And of course more info has also emerged about EFD that reinforces my request not to signal boost him.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ZoeMcLaren @zeynep
Not shocked - the more CAPS and
emojis someone uses, the less we should probably trust them.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Thank you for letting me have the follow-up. There has bee a lot of great post-peer review that catches stuff; all the more reason to be cautious in jumping on every study in alarmist language.
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KILLING T CELLS: this could be extremely bad. Researchers in China and the US find that