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10 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Real-life scientist: hugely specialised, often to the point where even side-fields of the same broad discipline can't parse each other's data

TV scientist: "You need someone to analyse DNA? Good that I'm an astrophysicist, just give me a moment to finish hacking into the CIA"
Real-life scientist: "Dammit, I spilled coffee on my keyboard, my work is ruined!"

TV scientist: "Amazing, I spilled coffee on my keyboard and DISCOVERED A NEW ELEMENT (Caffenium)!
Real-life scientist: "I spent a whole day pipetting 🙁"

TV scientist: "I have never seen a pipette, here are endless perfect samples. SCIENCE"
Real-life scientist: "My funding is running out, better spend the next 1,000 hours applying for grants"

TV scientist: *taps button, leans back in chair* "I just hacked the Bank of America and stole $100 million. Back to the mass spectrometer for me!"

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7 Jul
Another day, another systematic review and meta-analysis of the same ivermectin research published

This one is positive. I don't think it should be 1/n
2/n Study is here, and generally it looks fine - search strategy was decent, they followed most guidelines (I.e. PRISMA), and overall the methodology was pretty reasonable for the stated purpose
academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…
3/n In fact, it is amazingly similar to the other systematic review that I looked at recently, down to THE SAME DETAILS THAT ARE WEIRD

This whole thing feels like some bizarre deja-vu
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27 Jun
This paper was recently published, arguing that vaccines cause as much death as they prevent and so we should stop vaccinating people

I rarely say this, but it is truly awful and should be retracted as soon as possible 1/n
2/n The paper is here. It is truly woeful, but worth reading just to see how easy it can be to make a plausible-sounding argument if you are very free with your methodology mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/…
3/n The authors did two things - they calculated a Number Needed To Vaccinate (NNTV) from a propensity-matched cohort study done in Israel. They also calculated the number of deaths reported through the Dutch vaccine reporting system
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24 Jun
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR COFFEE INTAKE FOR A BETTER LIFE

STEP 1: NO

☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
If anyone's wondering, while there are few/no health benefits directly attributable to drinking coffee, there is also consistent evidence that even quite high intakes are unlikely to be harmful to your health
(Obviously this is not a blanket endorsement, if your doctor tells you to drink less coffee you probably should. If your naturopath tells you to drink less coffee, on the other hand, you should stop seeing a naturopath)
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22 Jun
The vast outrage over the "unfairness" of a transgender athlete competing at the Olympics makes very little sense when you consider that;

a) she is ranked 4th
b) she is the first trans athlete to compete at the Olympics EVER
"But she has a biologically male body!"

Try defining a "male" body in a way that doesn't exclude a large proportion of elite female athletes. The IOC has been trying to do this for decades and it's VERY HARD
The fact is that most elite athletes have biological advantages (how many 5'2" people play basketball professionally?). It's up to us to decide what is "unfair"
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22 Jun
This new systematic review/meta-analysis of ivermectin for COVID-19 has come out, and everyone's asking me to review it

My take - decent study, but the devil's in the details 1/n
2/n The study is here. Because it's about ivermectin, and people are super weird about that specific drug, everyone's going wild with an Altmetric of 8,641 in the week since publication journals.lww.com/americantherap…
3/n I should say that my position on ivermectin previously has been that there is some interesting evidence but that most of the studies are low quality so it's hard to say much (even the one or two high-quality studies aren't very conclusive)
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21 Jun
Occasionally people ask how to argue well on the internet, so I'd like to introduce you to the two simple rules for productive internet conversations:

1. Always reply calmly
2. Never assume ill intent
Number 1 is first because it is the most important - DO NOT REPLY ANGRILY

Take a moment

Take a breath

THEN reply
If this takes an hour, a day, a week - so be it. When you reply angrily, you derail the conversation and it becomes a waste of time
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