Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
by tertius on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:56PM
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Nope, but for masks, overwhelming evidence exists prior to 2020.
Just because you don't understand how this virus spreads does not mean that we need a new trial before we can make a recommendation.
Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
by IfOnlyYouKnew on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:18PM
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Link to a study?
Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
by tertius on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:54PM
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HCQ is a very safe medicine.
Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
by IfOnlyYouKnew on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:18PM
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That's neither particularly true not in connected to the argument.
Quote from above:
Medicine also isn't in the "we recommend it because there aren't many reasons against it" business.
Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
by tertius on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:07PM
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It is particularly true. And too many armchair academics are painting HCQ in a bad light when it is an immensely important and safe drug.
> Medicine also isn't in the "we recommend it because there aren't many reasons against it" business.
I'm not arguing with this. Who cares.
Doctors still recommend it, it still works and doctors still use it themselves.
But none of that is evidence in the double-blind trials sense of the word. And you're actually making my case: there was a plausible mechanism for hydroxychloroquine, as well as for masks. But only one of them works, while the other probably killed a few people, and wasted a whole lot of time.