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I wonder if the news that talked about the study so much when it was first published will spend as much time talking about the retraction.

jeffmcmahan 6y ago
FWIW, that never occurs. EDIT: Although it is currently being mentioned on the front pages of NYT, WaPo, and WSJ.
- stcredzero 6y ago
  Aw hell, for the past several years, they're just fine with editing their posts and hoping their error falls down the digital "memory hole." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  Retractions are troublesome even if published prominently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#backfire_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#backfire_eff...
- jansan 6y ago
  Oh, it happened in Germany in 1983 when the media realized that Hitler's diaries were fake. But that was one media outlet, who had purchased all the rights of the fake diaries, against all others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
jberryman 6y ago
It's front page on the Washington Post right now. I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards crowd the reason the drug (one of dozens being tried) become so talked about? Did Elon Musk spend an hour browsing the preprints and tweet it to the world or something? I'm confused
- javagram 6y ago
  Trump promoted it in a press conference, which prompted world-wide interest. Elon Musk also promoted it https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 Background: * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychlor... “ Trump Calls This Drug a ‘Game Changer.’ Doctors Aren’t So Sure: The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political litmus test. But doctors on the front lines of coronavirus say it’s just another tool in desperate times.” * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chlo... “ Prescriptions Surged as Trump Praised Drugs in Coronavirus Fight: Prescriptions for two antimalarial drugs jumped by 46 times the average when the president promoted them on TV. There’s no proof they work against Covid-19.”

jeffmcmahan 6y ago

FWIW, that never occurs. EDIT: Although it is currently being mentioned on the front pages of NYT, WaPo, and WSJ.

stcredzero 6y ago
Aw hell, for the past several years, they're just fine with editing their posts and hoping their error falls down the digital "memory hole." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Retractions are troublesome even if published prominently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#backfire_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#backfire_eff...
jansan 6y ago
Oh, it happened in Germany in 1983 when the media realized that Hitler's diaries were fake. But that was one media outlet, who had purchased all the rights of the fake diaries, against all others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries

jberryman 6y ago

It's front page on the Washington Post right now. I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards crowd the reason the drug (one of dozens being tried) become so talked about? Did Elon Musk spend an hour browsing the preprints and tweet it to the world or something? I'm confused

javagram 6y ago
Trump promoted it in a press conference, which prompted world-wide interest. Elon Musk also promoted it https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 Background: * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychlor... “ Trump Calls This Drug a ‘Game Changer.’ Doctors Aren’t So Sure: The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political litmus test. But doctors on the front lines of coronavirus say it’s just another tool in desperate times.” * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chlo... “ Prescriptions Surged as Trump Praised Drugs in Coronavirus Fight: Prescriptions for two antimalarial drugs jumped by 46 times the average when the president promoted them on TV. There’s no proof they work against Covid-19.”