Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Australian epidemiologist and research fellow who writes about how to read health research, often under the name Health Nerd. His newsletter covers nutrition, exercise, COVID-19 and problems in published science.
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Their wordsEmail definitely did away with some aspects of our lives, but it didn't have the overwhelming feel of total takeover that AI technologies do today.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsCertainly, if you use AI tools long-term you miss out on the opportunity to learn how to do it yourself.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI think it's entirely reasonable to say that COVID-19 is about as bad as your average seasonal virus in 2026, something that I could never imagine myself saying way back in 2020.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI don't think the risk of Long COVID is any greater than the risk that you might experience long-term symptoms from parainfluenza or adenovirus at this point, and it may well be lower.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut as a rule, I don't think that there's any incentive these days for general mask rules.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
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Our reading
The literature regarding exercise as a treatment for depression is extremely problematic.
Their wordsAs I've been saying for a while, the literature around exercise as a way to treat depression is extremely problematic.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSeveral of the most impactful studies in the area have serious issues that make them useless as evidence.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWe cannot say for sure if these trials happened or not, but we can say that no one should ever use them as evidence for medical treatments.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThere's no good reason to believe that people who support "gender ideology", however you define it, are more likely to be violent extremists.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn other words, "gender ideology" makes left-wing people more prone to violence because it signals to the group the people deserving of that violence. This is, in a word, ridiculous.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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The survey used in the study measured political affiliation rather than actual authoritarianism.
Their wordsIn my opinion, all the authors have done in this farce of a survey is measured political affiliation.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsThis sort of massive media storm almost never happens for white academics who do naughty things, especially in the UK. They may get some pushback, but it fades far more quickly, and their careers often survive the investigations.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is clear that a significant portion of the thesis was copied directly from other people's work. This is not in doubt, it's not in question, and the fact that so many people online are arguing that the plagiarism charges are false because a university said so is deeply depressing.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt's a truly ridiculous crime, and I'd expect any university to fire someone who was found to have substantial plagiarism in their PhD thesis and published work.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsAs this study-and all of the previous literature-has shown, full-fat dairy is a bit worse for your health than low-fat options.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFull-fat is not going to kill you, but if you want to lose weight and lower your cholesterol, low-fat is probably the best way to go.
↗Gideon M-K: Health Nerdgidmk.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece