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#WCRI2022 has been such a blast! What a privilege to meet so many incredible people doing interesting, important work from all over the world. My thanks to the organisers and to my wonderful supervisors Gary Collins 🇪🇺 Michael Schlussel Jen de Beyer Dr Charlotte Albury

Our UK Centre calls for all reporting guidelines and their associated explanation documents to be free to read, share, use, and publish!

Read more from Patricia Logullo, Caroline Struthers, Gary Collins 🇪🇺 et al in @Interna30420732's Journal of Global Health:
jogh.org/documents/issu…

How accurate are rapid tests, performed during a health-care visit for diagnosing #COVID19 ? buff.ly/3aXk405 #visualabstract of Cochrane_IDG systematic review by Emerson Bouldin @chung_yg Caroline Coleman from Emory School of Medicine

Calling all science/health journalists, press officers and those trying to communicate health research:

Delighted to announce the launch of RealRisk, David Spiegelhalter and the Winton Centre's tool to help you get your numbers across clearly and accurately.

realrisk.wintoncentre.uk

In this paper in NatureEcoEvo we outline 8 major problems that can occur with traditional ways of reviewing the literature, and provide concrete advice on how to avoid them: rdcu.be/b8pp0

This thread outlines our key points! (1/23)
#EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReview

Great paper by epi PhD student Matthew Sigurdson! Only 32% of meta-analyses were unique, with an avg 2.6 duplicates per meta-analysis. Only 29-54% of previously published meta-analyses were cited by subsequent ones. Stanford Epidemiology & Population Health

COVID AND DEMENTIA

Have spent the last few days looking into the situation with care, cover and dementia.

Dementia sufferers are dying at an alarming rate in this epidemic, one of the worst affected groups.

These are the reasons why and what could change it. (thread)

Our checklist for authors for statistical issues in study design, analysis, and reporting has been updated and has a new home on datamethods. It is a wiki so that others can improve the content, in addition to posting suggestions as replies. discourse.datamethods.org/t/author-check… #bbrcourse

Today marks two years since the passing of our founding Centre for Statistics in Medicine Oxford and EQUATOR Network director, mentor, collaborator and friend Doug Altman. An absolute giant in the world of medical statistics and scientific reporting (with >500,000 citations; scholar.google.com/citations?user…)

At the Mayo Clinic, one of the country's most prestigious hospitals, 16 private companies have been provided with access to de-identified patient data over the past two years. bit.ly/2MmoVMZ

If gov't truly wanted to follow 'shielding' of vulnerable groups, LSHTM/Oxford study identifies 'being male' as key risk factor for death. Anyone up for strategy where men stay at home & women take over/circulate freely until a vaccine or another solution? ox.ac.uk/news/2020-05-0…

Incidentally, even if you ignore the (lack of) fit on the RH graph, it turns out we locked down just before France, and well before Spain and Italy on an infections/capita basis (log scale remember). Narrative, schmarrative.

Here is my response on behalf of Independent SAGE to recent headlines.

Extraordinary study on the substantial inconsistency in neuroimaging results when 70 independent teams analyse the same dataset and test the same hypotheses. The huge variability in results shows that results of a singly neuroimaging study are unreliable nature.com/articles/s4158…

I understand that emotions are high, but the three part essays by
Jonathan Fuller
Marc Lipsitch and now
John Ioannidis in Boston Review
Are truly worth your time [Thread]

What is science in the time of COVID?
Does it vary depending on your lens?

The PM is 100% wrong to say that journalist questions about the impact on public trust of his refusal to sack Cummings are about politics not science. They are behavioural science questions and should be answered by scientists. Early evidence is that it has been damaging.

I would like to pre-register my hypothesis about #lockdowns : anything good that happens after a lockdown is causally linked to it, anything bad is either unrelated causally or necessary cost

Astronomers in ancient Assyria also called each other out on their bullshit, in case you were wondering.

Balasî accuses another scholar who allegedly spotted Venus of being “in complete ignorance”.

“I repeat: he does not understand the difference between Mercury and Venus”

80% US based doctors who led professional medical associations had $$ relationships with industry, with median payments ranging from $212 to $518 000 over 5yr period
⁦Ray Moynihan⁩ et al ⁦The BMJ⁩ bmj.com/content/369/bm…