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If Covid has done anything for me, is that it’s teaching me how little we understand drugs and how unreliable are studies. I have seen Hydroxychloroquine go fr
by whoisjuan 6y ago
If Covid has done anything for me, is that it’s teaching me how little we understand drugs and how unreliable are studies.
I have seen Hydroxychloroquine go from promising to helpful to not-helpful to damaging to promising again.
- forgingahead 6y agopg talks about this phenomena - I think it's less about the studies themselves but rather how they are covered and described by third parties with vested interests: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-drug-remdesivir-to-cost-3-120-for-typical-patient-11593428402 https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-drug-remdesivir-to-cos...
- lbeltrame 6y agoGetting properly done studies is hard. In particular the statistics are even harder and easier to mess up (the retracted Lancet paper had also statistical problems).