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Dr Kyle Sheldrick, M.B.B.S. Former NSWMSC Chair (2011) My name is Kyle Sheldrick, I graduated in medicine this year from the University of Western Sydney, about a fifth of our graduating class is working outside a capital city next year, the majority of these on the central coast of NSW, around Wyong and Gosford, but some are going further afield to Wagga Wagga and Alice Springs. (location of controversial CIA Pine Gap)

Despite going to a capital city based medical school I feel I have had good exposure to rural medicine. In 2010 I spent just under two months in rural Queensland based out of the Mount Isa Base Hospital. During this time I flew with the Royal Flying Doctor Service to very remote towns such as Uranadangi on the border with the Northern Territory and to Boulia South of Mount Isa. I also visited a number of other towns within a few hundred Kilometers of Mount Isa, and treated patients from as far afield as Doomadgee to the North and from some small islands in the Gulf.

This year I spent time in Western NSW based at Wellington at the Aboriginal Medical Service, and in Dubbo with allied health workers in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology at a service for Aboriginal children. 1)

Media Bio

Dr Kyle Sheldrick is a final year PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales investigating new spinal imaging techniques. He has an interest in research integrity, error detection and fraud detection. He recently worked as part of an international consortium to examine individual participant data for trials of ivermectin in COVID-19.

Waging War on Ivermectin & Smearing Front Line Doctors

BBC Global

By Rachel Schraer & Jack Goodman BBC Reality Check - October 6, 2021

The scientists in the group - Dr Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Dr James Heathers, Dr Nick Brown and Dr Sheldrick - each have a track record of exposing dodgy science. They've been working together remotely on an informal and voluntary basis during the pandemic.

They formed a group looking deeper into ivermectin studies after biomedical student Jack Lawrence spotted problems with an influential study from Egypt. Among other issues, it contained patients who turned out to have died before the trial started. It has now been retracted by the journal that published it.

The group of independent scientists examined virtually every randomised controlled trial (RCT) on ivermectin and Covid - in theory the highest quality evidence - including all the key studies regularly cited by the drug's promoters.

The sample of research papers examined by the independent group also contains some high-quality studies from around the world. But the major problems were all in the studies making big claims for ivermectin - in fact, the bigger the claim in terms of lives saved or infections prevented, the greater the concerns suggesting it might be faked or invalid, the researchers discovered.

While it's extremely difficult to rule out human error in these trials, Dr Sheldrick, a medical doctor and researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, believes it is highly likely at least some of them may have been knowingly manipulated. 2)

BBC - AU Health

Covid: Scientist concerned over fake Ivermectin claims

Ivermectin was called a Covid “miracle” drug, championed by vaccine opponents, but research has shown that more than a third of 26 major trials of the drug for use on Covid have serious errors or signs of potential fraud.

Dr Kyle Sheldrick, of the University of New South Wales, who was one of the group investigating the studies, said there was no mastermind or conspiracy behind the false claims.

He told Lucy Hockings on BBC World News: “The main issue is that a very large number of these studies are simply fake. They are false. They either did not happen at all, did not happen as their authors described them or reported false results.”3)

Misinformation Celebrity

Seven techniques for examining individual participant data for signs of fraud About this event

Dr Kyle Sheldrick is a final year PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales investigating new spinal imaging techniques. He has an interest in research integrity, error detection and fraud detection. He recently worked as part of an international consortium to examine individual participant data for trials of ivermectin in COVID-19. His group found that approximately one third of all trials that the consortium examined had sufficient evidence to conclude deliberate fraud had taken place. They concluded that every trial showing a statistically significant survival benefit for ivermectin either did not occur, or did not occur as described.

He will discuss 7 techniques for examining individual participant data for signs of fraud (with examples), and discuss how these techniques differ between observational and interventional studies, and pitfalls to consider when making integrity assessments of study data. 4)

Research

Molnupiravir

A paper authored by Kristian Thorlund, Sheldrick, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Sonal Singh, and Andrew Hill critiqued the MOVe-OUT clinical trial studying molnupiravir.5)

Accusing Paul Marik of Research Fraud

In 2022, Sheldrick accused Paul Marik of fabricating data in a study involving the treatment of sepsis patients with intravenous Vitamin C.

On April 11, Professor Jeffrey Morris gave a mixed review of Sheldrick's findings saying that he would not presume fraud on their basis.6)

Pushback

  • On April 17, Professor Norman Fenton published a strong rebuke of Sheldrick's statistical analysis.7)
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