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Several strange devices. Not clear to me how well they actually worked. I imagine you could write a listicle about any number of strange devices from anywhere i
by ALittleLight 5y ago
Several strange devices. Not clear to me how well they actually worked. I imagine you could write a listicle about any number of strange devices from anywhere if you didn't restrict yourself to writing about things that actually worked. For example, there are "healing magnets" in the US too. Do they work?
- scotty79 5y agoI'm highly skeptical of some of those too. Especially considering that US medicine for many years did knee surgery that turned out to have no positive effects I have very little hope of medical world to root out ineffective practices quickly. Or learn new things. This pandemic shows that medical world learns very slowly. So many sick, so many cases to examine and learn from. And only after a year or more of this pandemic we learn that Covid can cause long term impairment of IQ, cause impotence and is still present in tissues of people who got it, long after they "recovered". We still don't know which drugs might be helping and we don't routinely use drugs that we have some clues might be more efficient, even though we use other drugs from the same group that seem to have way less efficiency (budesonide, vs any other steroid, like hydrocortisone or dexamethasone).
- erhk 5y agoCan you cite where and by what mechanism covid impairs IQ or causes impotence
- Ancapistani 5y agoI’m not the person who made the claim, but it’s been widely reported: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
- scotty79 5y agoAs for the second claim: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/629856 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/629856