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So, I have had a proper read of this document, and I thought it might be worthwhile to actually go through and carefully analyze the documentLet's do some peer-review on

Lockdowns have mostly not been associated with a large increase in suicide rates: a thread of evidence (CW: suicide, mental health) Since this has been a major talking point

The important thing to remember is that (outside of a trial) REPORTED side-effects are common. Side-effects LINKED TO THE VACCINE are much less sohttps://twitter.com/DoctorChristian/status/1334221833952956418 Worth clarifying here that what

So, The Big Mask study has been published, and I thought rather than expound on what the results DID show (everyone's doing that), I might point out a few things

Ok, so I've had a read of this paper (which has been all over the news) that says quite explicitly that closing schools will probably cause more years of life

John Ioannidis, of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame, has now had his paper on IFR publishedLet's do one, final, twitter peer-review on the study 1/n 2/n You can

I thought I'd look at this paper in a little bit more detail because, well, there are some pretty big issuesLet's do some peer-review on twitter!https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1303539430024568832 The study is here:

I find studies like this to be such a headacheOn the one hand, I think the research is valid and importantOn the other, this headline is SUPER misleading and there

A systematic review/meta-analysis of honey vs other cough/cold remedies came out yesterday in BMJ Evidence-Based MedicineI think this is worth a quick peer review on twitter 1/n 2/n The review

Ok, this has been bugging me since yesterday, so I thought I'd actually go through this new webpage that claims Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is effective for COVID-19 and review itHere goes

Ok, so there's a lot to unpack here. This was a randomized controlled trial looking at the impacts of fasting on lying in lean and obese peopleHeadline finding - obese

This is a really carefully done, interesting meta-analysis of IFR by age. Unfortunately not many samples (the same snag we've run into), but a great paper nonethelesshttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v1 The pape

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