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22 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I thought I'd collate all of my ivermectin/fraud blogs into one place for you all to read, so here we go: the Thread of Fakery

Part 1: The initial fakery

gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
Part 1b: Further impacts on the literature

elemental.medium.com/ivermectin-for…
Part 2: More dodgy studies

gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
Part 3: Was a 100% benefit for ivermectin ever really plausible? No.

gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
Part 4: More fakery, this time with more copy-pasted patients!

gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
Part 5: Randomization? Who needs that when you just want a some massive positive results

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19 Oct
I wonder at stuff like this ivermectin in Indonesia "analysis". It's such obvious, boring nonsense that is disprovable with some basic fact-checking, and yet so very popular online
Firstly, the timing of "ivermectin widely available" is wrong. Ivermectin has been "flying off the shelves" in Indonesia since April 2020, with off-label use the entire pandemic
It's pretty obvious that ivermectin has been widely available in Indonesia the entire pandemic (as it is in most places). So what's the weird shaded area about?
Read 11 tweets
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15 Oct
This paper came out recently, and it is HUGELY popular among anti-vaccine advocates who are using it to suggest that vaccines don't work

It's also very fundamentally flawed. I'm a bit surprised it was published. Some thoughts 1/n Image
2/n The paper is here, and it's basically a series of comparisons of publicly-available COVID case and vaccine data conducted by a Harvard professor and a high-school student (note-DO NOT BE MEAN TO THE STUDENT, NEVER BE MEAN TO STUDENTS) link.springer.com/article/10.100… Image
3/n The study is broken into 2 sections. In the first, the authors took @OurWorldInData info, comparing the previous 7 days of case data between countries by vaccine rates. They produced this graph, showing no relationship between vaccines and reported cases Image
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13 Oct
This review of vitamin D and COVID-19 is ENORMOUSLY popular online, so I thought I'd take a look

There are serious deficiencies here. I'm actually wondering if the paper is a joke? 1/n
2/n The study is here, and it's basically a review where the authors used an anonymous aggregation website and pubmed to collate observational and ecological research into vitamin D medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
3/n As it stands, the search methodology is just...completely deficient. I would recommend the authors read the PRISMA statement and download those tools, there's just no information here to work with
Read 15 tweets
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12 Oct
It's interesting, because the ivermectin crowd are coming after me full force now, but they're so wildly inept that their main accusations are just tediously untrue
For example, someone's recently implied that I'm paid by Bill Gates because a completely different department in my university received a grant for work on condoms from the Gates foundation, which is hilariously stupid for a whole range of reasons
What's really fascinating is that there's a lot of defamation and ad hominem, but basically no one has raised any objections to our analysis of studies, which is what you usually see when people have no real argument
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11 Oct
This is, I think, the best discourse I've seen on the whole Bad Art Friend deal. Worth reading if your soul craves discussions on drama rottenindenmark.org/2021/10/10/ide…
I think one other point that I'd make about Kolker's original piece, is that interviewing only friends of one 'side' was just bad journalism. They defend their friend, and all you see is justifications for objectively bad behaviour that they also participated in
I mean, this whole fragment struck me as bizarre. The entire thing is a friend defending her buddy, but the actual context - that her friend wrote an openly bullying story that she then tried to monetize - is just brushed off
Read 4 tweets
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9 Oct
The "it's only five papers" about ivermectin for COVID-19 is getting more and more laughable as time goes one

Firstly, for anyone keeping score, it's now SEVEN papers with serious issues, including fraud
Secondly, this gambit started with "it's just ONE study" in July, and has become progressively more absurd as time goes on
Thirdly, and most importantly, as James says this should be your LOWER LIMIT for fraud

Seriously think about this for a second
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