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My completely anecdotal experience with the Hydroxychloroquine story is that researchers keep pooh-poohing it and people in the field keep having success with i
by war1025 7y ago
My completely anecdotal experience with the Hydroxychloroquine story is that researchers keep pooh-poohing it and people in the field keep having success with it.
All I know is that based on the aggregate of information I've seen thus far, if I come down with Coronavirus, I want to be prescribed that stuff.
- tptacek 7y agoCan you cite American clinical testimonials for HCQ? HCQ trials appear not to be controversial: they're being tried widely. Who's saying it's working?
- benjohnson 7y agoQuinine used to come from the bark of a tree - that bark is available as a nutritional supplement. It's also is used to make the bitter taste of Tonic Water.
- buboard 7y agoSomeone did the calculations. Ppl need to drink 200 gin tonics per day
- microtherion 7y agoYes, but is there a downside as well?
- buboard 7y agoYeah alcoholism/liver/kidney failure obviously. It was meant as a joke
- hprotagonist 7y agoit mostly still does. You _can_ synthesize it but the yield's godawful.
- csours 7y agoRegression to the mean is a huge problem with anecdotes. Some people get better. It may be due to some treatment, or they may just get better. This is why we have structured studies.
- jschwartzi 7y agoYeah, I guarantee you that even with a 10% fatality rate 90% of people will get better spontaneously on their own. So any prospective treatment would have to do better than the recovery rate without treatment. This is really a situation where the phrase "the plural of anecdote is not statistics."