Thread by @BlakeMMurdoch

The authors and editors of @PNASNews should be fucking ashamed of themselves for publishing this study that is being picked up en masse in the media. It directly misrepresents its methods in its title by claiming causation (not correlation!) with a phenomenon it doesn’t study.🧵

So apparently other trauma, like kids watching their relatives die as I was during this time, didn’t stress them out, just “lockdowns.” Oh, and the study doesn’t control for covid infection? Which causes brain aging and is often asymptomatic or milder in children. You fools.

Reddit r/science knows what’s up better than the scientists who apparently wrote up this manuscript while on psychedelics. reddit.com/r/science/s/du…

There are 10+ articles on this small study with invalid conclusions on major news sites, liberal and conservative alike. Everyone’s dying to serve up another round of neuroinvasive virus to our kids so we can preserve the vibes. I’m so done with this.

@RetractionWatch take a look at this one.

Please excuse my colourful language, I was pretty upset last night as shoddy, dishonest research is immediately being used to further a media narrative all over the place.