WHOA!!!!! Stinky Cheese 🧀🧀
This paper from .@OpenSAFELY is an absolute shocker, claiming normal antibiotic usage during 2020 in the UK.
We know it wasn't because we looked at it already.
Was this paper published to cover up the #3tablets scandal?
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Here is the claim from @BillyZhong229 the lead author, who seems to be a student (his twitter is less than a year old).
It's propaganda reinforcing the "Antimicrobial stewardship" dictat:
YOU WILL NOT PRESCRIBE ANTIBIOTICS FOR COVID
What were "COVID-19 national restrictions"?
Well I did this analysis back in Feb showing the HUGE GAP between normal cyclical antibiotic prescriptions and the actual prescriptions during COVID - when GPs were told to stop prescribing antibiotics to the elderly and give them #midazolam instead.
So one of us must be wrong.
Except my chart included a link to the raw data set from openprescribing.net so you can verify it yourself.
openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=r…
When .@OpenSAFELY publish, you can't verify anything. They did the same when @bengoldacre published a study showing that #hydroxychloroquine didn't help in COVID, in the Lancet after the Lancet had already published fraudulent data on the same subject.
thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…
But don't think you're allowed to view that data. Oh no, @TheLancet damn well learnt their lesson from being exposed publishing fraudulent studies in the #surgisphere scandal and made sure that Goldacre's paper was shut down tight.
And don't think @OpenSAFELY's data sharing has become any more transparent.
The opposite. Locked down tighter, but if you're a foreign PhD student with no publication history - no problem.
And if your data goes through China that's fine too.
tpp-asia.com/enterprise
"The data doesn't leave the NHS" is a lie.
TPP is a Chinese company. Nothing wrong with that. Good for them. They have a bona fide 18-digit Chinese business registration, otherwise known as a "Unified Social Credit Indicator"
They have access to all the OPENSAFELY data.
But that's not all.
OPENSAFELY is funded by Wellcome (#BigPharma's slush fund) and Matt Hancock's infamous HDRUK.
HDRUK was the group convened to skim your health data under the leadership of Nicole Junkermann - of Jeffrey Epstein and Panama Papers fame.
@JohnnyVedmore
So, 3 months after we first exposed the #midazolam and #3tablets scandals - where the elderly were denied antibiotics for their post-viral pneumonia and euthanised instead "because muh COVID"....
An unverifiable paper appears from this bunch telling us there is nothing to see.
No problem.
I'm sure Ben, Victoria Palin and Billy (Xiaomin) Zhang will be keen to show their probity in this paper.
And release their data for public audit.
We can probably verify it in less than a week.
Try us. journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-…
And kudos to Victoria Palin btw, the supervising author on this paper. Victoria had never published a first author paper before 2019 and is now a supervising author.
And thank you for helping get everyone vaccinated Vicky!
Fortunately Vicky is an expert in Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS), which is the propaganda that was used in 2019 to lay the groundwork for denying antibiotics to the elderly in 2020.
Well done Vicky, you did your job to the letter.
#3tablets
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Palin%2C…
Background to the #3tablets scandal...
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OOPS!
Ben you're not meant to publish papers in the journal you're on the board of buddy.
Didn't anyone tell you?
thelancet.com/lanepe/interna…
The gift that keeps on giving.
#Opensafely is one big nepotistic Pharmafest.
➡LSTHM.
➡Sander van der Linden.
➡David Spiegelhalter.
➡University of Cambridge Winton centre (psyop central command)
@FeeRedfern @profnfenton @jengleruk
@FeeRedfern @profnfenton @jengleruk More gifts from @OpenSAFELY.
Who the hell are @EMISHealth?
Their CEO is Andy Thorburn, who was Digicel's CEO. Digicel famously "won" the contract for telecom services after the #Haiti earthquake. Friends of the Clinton Foundation.
@artisbrutal2021
search.brave.com/search?q=digic…
For the record this is the second paper from the same group, essentially trying the same propaganda move - suggesting that antibiotic prescribing increased in 2020, contradicting the public data.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
According to the repository the last output for this was 6th April. Which means the paper had to be written after that, revised, resubmitted and published by 15th May. Pretty good going. Usually this would take about 8-12 weeks.
Fast track?
Free pass?
jobs.opensafely.org/university-of-…
Just a note that the Victoria Palin in the vaccination promotion shown above from 2020 could be a different Victoria Palin from our Opensafely supervising author who appears to have seen this thread, and instead of coming to the defence of the data...
Has blocked me. Oh well.
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