These successful HCQ studies, full of reports of lives saved, are worthy of attention.
But, I'm completely exhausted.
Between arguing against racists and arguing against bad politics during a global health epidemic and trying to catch and counter some of the relentless stream of disinformation on this and so many other subjects -- and all without any intervention at all from any of the social media platforms that enable all of this, including HN -- I'm tired, and discouraged, and dispirited.
I need to go away for a while. I hope someone else has the time and energy to curb stomp random dude's 25 page Google Doc minutes before someone else cites 25 pages of different BS.
If the list of possible scenarios includes death, and people have invested the time to reach informed conclusions in consultation with their doctors, perhaps their choices can be respected.
> ...James Watson, a statistician at Mahidol who on 28 May published an open letter to the journal and the study’s co-authors, signed by more than 200 clinicians and researchers, that calls for the release of Surgisphere’s hospital-level data, an independent validation of the results, and publication of the peer review comments that led to the Lancet publication.
This blogger's article is dated May 29.
Given that the underlying theme of this blog is "everyone's lying to you about covid19, it's actually not that big of a deal", I doubt James Todaro was as instrumental in The Lancet's retraction as the letter from 200 other researchers the day before.
It will be quite bad if it turns out that the WHO reacted to a study published in The Lancet that turns out to be fraudulent or grossly erroneous. We don't need to make the situation even worse by lending undue credit to other sources of disinformation.
[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s...