Chloroquine, past and present

Re:Chloroquine, past and present by tasogare on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:13PM (#22641185)

I wanted to write this comment. The researcher is indeed a specialist from what I read on the internet but given his total turn about concerning Covid I would personally not put any trust in his work. He participated in the crisis the country is facing right now, by saying on social networks there was no real danger about the virus.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by pnako on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:11PM (#22643389)

I don't really get your point. He's indeed a specialist in infectious disease (he runs the most important infectious diseases lab in France)... but because his opinion on that virus disagrees with, what, hacker news, twitter and the mass media... then he's wrong? WTF.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by mytailorisrich on Saturday March 21, 2020 @03:54AM (#22645229)

In February millions of people were in lockdown in China and thousands were dying.

That's why it's difficult to understand how an expert could casually claim that this was nothing more than seasonal flu.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by ggm on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:32PM (#22642363)

Scientists make mistakes. Scientists change their mind in the light of the evidence. Your distrust of this scientist is distrust of science. Please, don't do this.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by jfkebwjsbx on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:59PM (#22643325)

What? There was more than enough evidence. They are the ones anti-science.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by roenxi on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:25PM (#22644126)

Not knowing the evidence doesn't make someone unscientific. Most scientists don't know most evidence.

If he had the evidence explained to him and then just assumed it would be different in France that would be unscientific, but we'd all need to read French to ague about that.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by mytailorisrich on Saturday March 21, 2020 @03:56AM (#22645234)

In February the situation in China was public knowledge.

It's difficult to understand why a country would go on lockdown and build emergency hospitals for something nor worse than seasonal flu...

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by mytailorisrich on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:52AM (#22653867)

Please this is not the moment to spread loony conspiracy theories.

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