I was interested in diet & health, and sometimes Wales & rugby.
I still am, but I’m more interested in WTF is happening to the world!
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Dec 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In the summer of 2020, I researched why we'd had coronaviruses for decades but no vaccine.
During animal trials, vaccines created antibodies, but when exposed to the virus, the animals had a worse outcome. This phenomenon is known as ADE. Antibody Dependent Enhancement...
e.g. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22536382/
and e.g. nature.com/articles/s4156…
I knew then that transmission had not even been tested.
I knew then that severity of outcome had not even been tested.
I knew then that proper animal trials had not been conducted.
I knew then that trial phases, which should run consecutively had been run concurrently or skipped.
Mar 20, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Things wrong with the egg study: 1) Association was found with CVD, but not CHD - a major part of CVD. zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-c…
Things wrong with the egg study: 2) The study was a meta-analysis of six US studies, dominated by one; any findings are not generalisable to non-US populations. zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-c…