JosieS

NHSBT Systematic Review Initiative

[JosieS @JosieS___]

@EikoFried This is something @CochraneStats needs to address for RoB criteria. Ditto sealed envelopes/sequential numbers. If no one checks these safeguards worked, they're pointless (and potentially misleading).
https://t.co/12q74fJdKn

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

The pharmacompany running this study spent many millions on this trial—not assessing blinding was a deliberate design choice that severely threatens inferences. Lack of blinding may explain differential dropout & bias outcomes across groups.

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

Do I have this right?

Balloux & Prasad spent two years encouraging adults to infect children with a deadly vascular pathogen

And yesterday both enthusiastically signed on to the theory that it was explicitly created in a military laboratory as a bioweapon to kill adults

Yes?

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Was explaining the estimand/estimator/estimate distinction to a colleague earlier today and this meme came up so now you suffer too

[Tashmia Owen FRSA @dancinginshado]

My father has terminal cancer. Monday the 19th was meant to be his team's last ditch attempt, he was scheduled for stem cell transplant. I truly have lost faith in humanity right now.

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

“I’d be shocked if we didn’t see such fraud and misconduct and sloppiness, given the way the incentives are. Academia, universities, and institutions have built this system. The outcome is entirely predictable." https://t.co/v7bW4Lrdk4

[Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff]

#escon2022milano witnessed another claim that replication failures are to be expected due to an enigmatic "regression to mean" or "regressive shrinkage". I tried to argue, this is only true for science that selects for large (sometimes false) effects, but was not received well.

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

A preprint worth reading from @bwmol and team - up to 51 obs/gyn papers with serious issues consistent with fabrication, including many that were used in clinical practice😬😬 FYI @DrJenGunter @SezClom https://t.co/0fcrCZXYmQ

[derekseveri.bsky.social @DerekSeveri]

Excellent soft padded, throw-able microphone for asking questions in seminars. Every seminar series should have it! I'm not kidding it's very practical. Survives missed catches. @UniUtrecht #epssummerschool

[Neil Malhotra @namalhotra]

I am excited to announce the launch of Aletheia, a new platform for communicating peer-evaluated research. My collaborator on this project is @JakeJares. https://t.co/07HozdOIaQ 1/14

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

Editors-in-chief of aging journal resign en masse after ‘impasse with the Anatomical Society and Wiley.’
https://t.co/bgE1J5Uuy9

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

“How to Stop the Unknowing Citation of Retracted Papers.” Our editorial in Anesthesiology.
https://t.co/VIP8Wx35Sl

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

You know what I don't want to ever hear again? A single complaint from anyone about how efforts to fix science publishing are going to affect their society or society journal. Because far more than anyone else it is scientific societies who are responsible for creating this mess.

[Just Treatment 💊 @JustTreatment]

A 2020 study found @GSK are the most fined big pharma company for illegal behaviour.

@pfizer, @JNJNews and @AstraZeneca - who all hold lucrative monopolies on #COVID vaccines - also feature highly on the table...

FULL STORY: https://t.co/o0VBeRRx4N

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

A thread about why the US medical profession urgently needs to face some hard truths about its ethical status and role in American society. Most doctors believe we belong to one of the most virtuous, caring, and progressive professions; reality has long been very different. 1/

[Nick Bernards @BernardsNick]

The ‘peer review crisis’ is a labour crisis.

The pool of permanently employed academics (for whom, doing peer reviews *is* a job responsibility) is being eaten away through casualization, and peer review is one of few things we have any leeway to drop from spiralling workloads.

[Jack Lawrence @JackMLawrence]

~90% of the global data on molnupiravir is currently unpublished. Serious questions exist about parts of the rest, & no one seems to care. During the Tamiflu scandal people were rightly furious that 60% of the data was unpublished but it seems like we've learned nothing.

Thread:

[Lane Greene @lanegreene]

Nerds, I have a super-mega-earth-shattering announcement. @TheEconomist will now allow singular "data" in certain circumstances, keeping the plural for others.

The case is laid out here.

https://t.co/nEXNoDzd8m

[Ash Paul @pash22]

Can systematic reviews help clean up science?
https://t.co/gTJG9RvmuK via @deevybee