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Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in h... by ajross on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:36PM (#22880619)
This is absolutely true. But the reason that a bland non-result is newsworthy is precisely because various public entities decided to treat the previous result as much more significant than it was. And it absolutely does serve as a refutation of that rhetoric.
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Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in h... by esyir on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:00PM (#22880897)
And this we now have the opposite problem, where a potential option is treated like it has the legitimacy of crystal healing, depending on the political side you sit on.
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Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in h... by ajross on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:04PM (#22880948)
Sorry, who exactly is likening chloroquines to crystal healing? I hear this all the time, but frankly it's a giant strawman. No one serious (i.e. a public figure with media coverage) is arguing against the efficacy of chloroquines.

Boosting unproven drugs is dangerous and irresponsible, and arguing that fact is not the same thing as arguing that the drug is ineffective.

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