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Even worse, it’s leaving people with Lupus and arthritis in a position to quit the medication that’s keeping them alive/comfortable cold turkey. https://www.ny
by IAmEveryone 7y ago
Even worse, it’s leaving people with Lupus and arthritis in a position to quit the medication that’s keeping them alive/comfortable cold turkey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-chloroquine-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-chloro...
And then you get this word salad that sounds like a forward from grandpa, early AOL era (even including all-caps): “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)”
All based on some data from a Petri dish, and a non-randomized trial where they measured “virus load” by eyeballing it: https://mobile.twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916568576 https://mobile.twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916...
This is insanity, Nero-style (only without actual style). You couldn’t kill more people if you tried.
- teddyvangogh 7y agoFaulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.