He returned to Twitter two weeks later with a tweetorial — a series of tweets forming a mini-lecture — to explain why he believes this type of nutritional research is deeply flawed. In his own research, Ioannidis demonstrated that Vitamin E could be shown to be life extending or life shortening depending on which factors were analyzed. Dr. Vinay Prasad says his tweetorial attracted thousands of more people than could fit in a lecture hall. "​After watching his tweets be retweeted hundreds of times Prasad said he now understands why the media embraces this research. The first page of his tweetorial attracted 197,000 views — meaning he reached many more people than could ever be accommodated in a university lecture hall.

Source: CBC News May 05, 2018 12:56 UTC