🚨 Interested in causal inference?

Come join us for the Mendelian Randomisation conference, 19-21 June, MRC IEU

This years themes include MR methods, drug target MR, mental health, disease progression & more!

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A personal thread on first reading Richard Peto's should-be classic 'on the need for ignorance in cancer research' nearly 40 years ago link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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A template response (and would be great if other journals put out similar editorials) in academic.oup.com/jcem/article/1… Should require more than just two sample MR with available statistics, see’20 years of MR” editorial with Shah Ebrahim thelancet.com/journals/landi…

Very proud to say our Registered Report supporting a causal relationship between age at menarche and adolescent depression is now published in BMC Medicine. Link: shorturl.at/dFKTY. This was a big team effort spanning the duration of my PhD! A🧵on the process and findings:

Eagerly looking forward to this talk by george davey smith. It is a pity to see such a promising method being misapplied. Very biref take-home notes from reading George's papers on uses/misuses of #Mendelian_Randomization on this thread: twitter.com/mahdi_iarc/sta…

Hello, Mendelian Randomization
Meet the bandwagon.

Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is going to hell in a handcart, with an exponential weekly increase of papers with Mendelian Randomisation in the title, most of them nonsense. 25th April 4.30pm online or in person UCL I'll talk about what should be done forms.office.com/pages/response…

Top job. Sadly I don’t have the skills otherwise I’d apply 👇

Amazing this BS still a thing x.com/mendel_random/…

Darren Dahly - on Bluesky and Substack Here's another nice, more recent, (open access) piece from (the good old) george davey smith - a regrettable state of affairs, but an entertaining read indeed 😉

academic.oup.com/ije/article/49…

Now 35 years ago

This thread is part of a sliver of Eysenck’s deception and incompetence. A young george davey smith eviscerating him

📅 Coming up later this month...

Mendelian Randomization - what it was, what it is, and what it should become | 25 April @ 3:30pm with George Davey Smith (george davey smith)

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Sanctus Filius Jash Dholani He was a liar and a fraud, who made up
Data. Truly an awful scientist who should only be taken seriously as a case study of fraudulent behaviour. A tiny taster:

Really excited to be part of the development of @PopResUK with great friends and colleagues. It will help to bring forward the best of #populationbasedscience for all. 🚨Posts coming soon re. jobs available in the team - for now - please check University of Bristol Jobs - search 'PRUK'🚨

On 25th April 15.30pm (UK time) I promise to explain Mendelian randomization forms.office.com/pages/response… The previous talk Timandra Harkness mentioned was billed as being on “Mendel’s Randomness”, which is clearly completely different :-) A recording of it 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=apYZcx…