RE: Covid 19 conspiracies dump
October 4, 2021 at 4:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2021 at 4:23 pm by HappySkeptic.)
This is an interesting article about the history of Hydroxychloroquine trials vs. Covid-19.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....84940/full
Basically, it goes from a bunch of non-scientific clinical results of "hey, it looks like this works", to a few large randomized trials that say "no, this definitely does not work".
As I said before, it is the quality of research that counts, not the number of papers, or the number of online fans.
I have been exposed to lots of health scam stuff, and they follow a similar pattern. They take bits of known and correct information, combine it with tons of speculation and a bit of bad science, and then market it as stuff that "the pharma companies don't want you to know".
In the case of Covid-19, there are number of potential antivirals. These include Zinc, Hydroxychloroquine, Invermectin, and antiviral drugs. If one doesn't work, what about in combination? Why not take unscientific clinical results and claim that it "proves" they work, and that the drug companies and Fauci are suppressing the results for monetary and political reasons. What if only the right-wing bloggers know the truth!
The reality is that medicine is hard. Drugs that work in-vitro may not work in the body, or their effects may be counteracted by other factors, or they may have side effects that make things worse. Medical scientists want to find cures -- they don't suppress anything. It gets their names in lights, as well as helping humanity (presumably why they went into medicine). If anything, some doctors are too quick to promote things as cures, not the opposite. Only doing the work of large-size high-quality trials reveals the truth.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....84940/full
Basically, it goes from a bunch of non-scientific clinical results of "hey, it looks like this works", to a few large randomized trials that say "no, this definitely does not work".
As I said before, it is the quality of research that counts, not the number of papers, or the number of online fans.
I have been exposed to lots of health scam stuff, and they follow a similar pattern. They take bits of known and correct information, combine it with tons of speculation and a bit of bad science, and then market it as stuff that "the pharma companies don't want you to know".
In the case of Covid-19, there are number of potential antivirals. These include Zinc, Hydroxychloroquine, Invermectin, and antiviral drugs. If one doesn't work, what about in combination? Why not take unscientific clinical results and claim that it "proves" they work, and that the drug companies and Fauci are suppressing the results for monetary and political reasons. What if only the right-wing bloggers know the truth!
The reality is that medicine is hard. Drugs that work in-vitro may not work in the body, or their effects may be counteracted by other factors, or they may have side effects that make things worse. Medical scientists want to find cures -- they don't suppress anything. It gets their names in lights, as well as helping humanity (presumably why they went into medicine). If anything, some doctors are too quick to promote things as cures, not the opposite. Only doing the work of large-size high-quality trials reveals the truth.