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Why do we need a gold standard study when the medicine is 60 years old and Africa and Indian have been using it forever to fight malaria and it seems to be help

by ghthor 6y ago

Why do we need a gold standard study when the medicine is 60 years old and Africa and Indian have been using it forever to fight malaria and it seems to be helping those areas of the world already? Who acts like that as people are dying around them, "Well we need one more study to prove its effective." Why not just let doctors and people take it and make up there own minds. Humans are NOT a bunch of idiots, they can think for themselves.

smt88 6y ago
> Why do we need a gold standard study Because it involves millions of human lives. > when the medicine is 60 years old and Africa and Indian have been using it forever to fight malaria and it seems to be helping those areas of the world already? Malaria is not Covid-19. It's not even a virus. By your logic, any random flu drug should be used to treat Covid-19, because flu is much closer (both in terms of pathology and symptoms) than malaria is. Africa and India have absolutely not been using HCQ "forever" to fight this illness that has only existed for ~8 months. > Who acts like that as people are dying around them, "Well we need one more study to prove its effective." People who have learned from history that treating people with the wrong drug can kill them or permanently damage their bodies. > Why not just let doctors and people take it and make up there own minds. Humans are NOT a bunch of idiots, they can think for themselves. Individual doctors have no visibility into whether a drug is safe or not. Anecdotes, hunches, and uncontrolled trials kill people. They killed people for hundreds of years before medicine advanced and started to require randomized, controlled trials. Just because someone doesn't know whether HCQ works doesn't make them an idiot. No one is treating someone like an idiot by refusing them an experimental treatment. The entire point of having doctors is so that people don't have to make up their own minds, because it requires years of education to have any idea what you're doing when treating something as complex as a human being.

by ghthor 6y ago

smt88 6y ago

> Why do we need a gold standard study Because it involves millions of human lives. > when the medicine is 60 years old and Africa and Indian have been using it forever to fight malaria and it seems to be helping those areas of the world already? Malaria is not Covid-19. It's not even a virus. By your logic, any random flu drug should be used to treat Covid-19, because flu is much closer (both in terms of pathology and symptoms) than malaria is. Africa and India have absolutely not been using HCQ "forever" to fight this illness that has only existed for ~8 months. > Who acts like that as people are dying around them, "Well we need one more study to prove its effective." People who have learned from history that treating people with the wrong drug can kill them or permanently damage their bodies. > Why not just let doctors and people take it and make up there own minds. Humans are NOT a bunch of idiots, they can think for themselves. Individual doctors have no visibility into whether a drug is safe or not. Anecdotes, hunches, and uncontrolled trials kill people. They killed people for hundreds of years before medicine advanced and started to require randomized, controlled trials. Just because someone doesn't know whether HCQ works doesn't make them an idiot. No one is treating someone like an idiot by refusing them an experimental treatment. The entire point of having doctors is so that people don't have to make up their own minds, because it requires years of education to have any idea what you're doing when treating something as complex as a human being.