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While this mistake by one person may have happened, you cannot really use that to dismiss the whole trial. Be aware that FranceSoir is not a reputable source,

While this mistake by one person may have happened, you cannot really use that to dismiss the whole trial. Be aware that FranceSoir is not a reputable source, you could liken it to the UK's Daily Mail. And Covexit also looks like a French conspiracist website set up by Pr Raoult's fans. Sources matter in this debate because populists across the world (and especially in France with controversial Pr. Raoult) are championing hydroxychloroquine with inexplicable passion. It fits their conspiracist view that the truth about cheap, easily accessible treatments has been hidden so that big pharma could sell more expensive drugs (the news about dexamethasone destroys that argument) Much like for climate change deniers, you always see the same few rogue scientists and news outlets, and I could immediately spot which side your comment was on just by looking at the links.

jcahill 6y ago
I did not dismiss the whole trial. They were first to this scandal precisely because they are conspiracists. A website with a name like covexit is nothing I would normally link. ice9, who has been a very solid twitter-lit-reviewer on repurposing candidates for quite a while, started the discussion in the anglosphere via primary sources and these tertiary sources. That better sources hadn't covered the topic yet is unfortunate, but time waits for no one and their claims are independently verifiable. I reviewed covexit's apologia for Raoult, including his absurd response to RECOVERY's HCQ news, before making any post with the link mentioned. The 2020-06-15 paste was imported straight from one of my social accounts. Friends there already have context spread across many months from me re: topics like HCQ and Raoult. Today's BBC article on dex is spreading like wildfire, exactly like the HCQ meme did. It has great potential to inflict damage. Better sources had to wait. >I could immediately spot which side your comment was on just by looking at the links. You presume too much. I work on web archival and synthetic biology. I'm not a fanboy of celebrity doctors/medical research cranks. Please read [2], understand it, and see if you still have a need to reply.
jcahill 6y ago
Are you ready to read the ref?
jcahill 6y ago
New day, new chance to read the article.

jcahill 6y ago

I did not dismiss the whole trial. They were first to this scandal precisely because they are conspiracists. A website with a name like covexit is nothing I would normally link. ice9, who has been a very solid twitter-lit-reviewer on repurposing candidates for quite a while, started the discussion in the anglosphere via primary sources and these tertiary sources. That better sources hadn't covered the topic yet is unfortunate, but time waits for no one and their claims are independently verifiable. I reviewed covexit's apologia for Raoult, including his absurd response to RECOVERY's HCQ news, before making any post with the link mentioned. The 2020-06-15 paste was imported straight from one of my social accounts. Friends there already have context spread across many months from me re: topics like HCQ and Raoult. Today's BBC article on dex is spreading like wildfire, exactly like the HCQ meme did. It has great potential to inflict damage. Better sources had to wait. >I could immediately spot which side your comment was on just by looking at the links. You presume too much. I work on web archival and synthetic biology. I'm not a fanboy of celebrity doctors/medical research cranks. Please read [2], understand it, and see if you still have a need to reply.

jcahill 6y ago

Are you ready to read the ref?

jcahill 6y ago

New day, new chance to read the article.