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French Scientist Didier Raoult Given Rusty Razor Award For Pseudoscience

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Re: French Scientist Didier Raoult Given Rusty Razor Award For Pseudoscience

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> There’s no “major” flaw in his studies as people keep repeating. ah, yes, it's all perfect. smh https://www.les-crises.fr/the-tremendous-ethical-and-methodo...

I guess other studies are perfect and survived this level of scrutiny. Especially the "recovery" one, praised by everybody where the inclusion criteria was: "having flu like symptoms", without PCR. This is true science indeed. https://www.les-crises.fr/the-tremendous-ethical-and-methodo... 1. Why is this a major flaw? 2. As stated by the title. Remark: (Well conducted) RCTs introduce way too much variance. As a stati…

> As of today, they updated the study with 3000+ patients.

Yes, this update was around July. They found an IFR of .7% with patient treated with HCQ. Lower than the 1.2% mortality rate in eastern France. But wait! In august, the IFR of eastern France was calculated again and was found to be around .7% (+-.3%) too?

SO since august, the narrative changed: HCQ soes not prevent people from dying at all, but prevent them to carry a viral load important enough to contaminate other people as much. With no real study, as doing so would be unethical. Convenient.

Honestly if you followed the story as much as i did (and i did buy HCQ early on, as my boss was a fan and sold me on Raoult with daily update), it became more and more ridiculous, with the organ point was the IFR recalculation in august, when i told myself i should be ashamed to have willingly believed something this early, coming from someone who, as Bergame started dying and Colmar was being infected, stated that the virus would not be coming to France, then, as my cousin bagged the 18th body in his hospital, posted a video called "Coronavirus: Game Over!", later edited and renamed.

Re: French Scientist Didier Raoult Given Rusty Razor Award For Pseudoscience

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I genuinely feel sorry for you. I have no idea what it's like to be so disconnected from reality, but I hope you find your way back one day. (Downvotes = proof I am right. Period)

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Re: French Scientist Didier Raoult Given Rusty Razor Award For Pseudoscience

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post #71
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess other studies are perfect and survived this level of scrutiny. Especially the "recovery" one, praised by everybody where the inclusion criteria was: "having flu like symptoms", without PCR. This is true science indeed. https://www.les-crises.fr/the-tremendous-ethical-and-methodo... 1. Why is this a major flaw? 2. As stated by the title. Remark: (Well conducted) RCTs introduce way too much variance. As a stati…

> As of today, they updated the study with 3000+ patients. Yes, this update was around July. They found an IFR of .7% with patient treated with HCQ. Lower than the 1.2% mortality rate in eastern France. But wait! In august, the IFR of eastern France was calculated again and was found to be around .7% (+-.3%) too? SO since august, the narrative changed: HCQ soes not prevent people from dying at all, but prevent them t…

Mean value theorem hardly allows that :)

Maybe I misinterpret what you’re saying, can you give me exactly the source for your numbers?

Your last paragraph feels like you have personal grief against him.

Re: French Scientist Didier Raoult Given Rusty Razor Award For Pseudoscience

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That guy probably based his experiments/research on a 2005 paper. https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42...

I get a "page not found" on that URL.

Not sure why. Just google this string without the quotation marks. Should be the first result: "10.1186 1743-422X-2-69e"
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