Dr Megan Knight
@meganknight
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Peripatetic hackademic, techie, catlover, knitter, sometime foodie. Views entirely organic and home-grown. @[email protected] on Mastodon
England, United Kingdom
Joined April 2008
If you're concerned about the NHS, then taking it to task for expensive, untested treatments like this, your job. Be more critical @guardian, it's why we support you.
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The linked "study" is to another guardian article, and the link to the study in that (at least they admit it's small: 38 people, 16 weeks) is both broken, and to a personal website, not a peer reviewed journal. This is incredibly sloppy science reporting.
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Why are news organisations that are committed to balance and fairness unable to show that in reporting on untested invasive procedures to "treat" obesity? @guardian @yrfatfriend
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https://t.co/dTeG3dVHd1
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Treatment takes 15 minutes and involves swallowing a capsule with no need for surgery, endoscopy or anaesthesia
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RIP Sinead. You deserved so much better. https://t.co/9eYG01tPK9
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Katie Hopkins is trending, which is thankfully a rarity these days, so let's take a rare opportunity to enjoy the greatest clarification of all time:
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... are fast ending if not ended. The music has switched to something unpleasant, the stools are being noisily turned atop the tables, the bartenders are wiping the counters and stacking the glasses.
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Twitter itself may eke out a ghostly existence for a long time, like the thing that calls itself "Newsweek." But the days when this place was the Rialto of information and insight - where rising young academics and journalists in danger zones could fast accumulate readers ...
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Sounds fascinating..
✨I am really excited to share this CfP for a @journstudies Special Issue on Exile Journalism that I am preparing with @JohanaKotis. Reporting from precarious shelter: The practices, values, and epistemologies of exile journalism https://t.co/7892wWBWfO
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Hotel light switches too, though
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I'm home! My garden isn't as "wow" as some of my recent pics, but I do love it. #cornflower #redcampion #bluebells #bugle #borage
https://t.co/lsZQpfaIG7
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There's an entire PhD in this one object, I think. I'm almost finished RF Kuang's Babel, so my mind is very on colonialism and language and history. https://t.co/lvqVwfJ4yn
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