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originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: ScepticScot
I have to admit I'd never heard of The Gateway Pundit before so I've just spent the last 30 minutes or so looking them up.
Granted its not enough to give a qualified opinion but it seems pretty bloody clear to me that it seems more interested in pushing a pre-determined and locked in political agenda than it is in publishing scientific data and encouraging open and honest debate.
Predictably the usual suspects lap it up because it 'confirms' their own pre-conceived bias.
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: ScepticScot
I have to admit I'd never heard of The Gateway Pundit before so I've just spent the last 30 minutes or so looking them up.
Granted its not enough to give a qualified opinion but it seems pretty bloody clear to me that it seems more interested in pushing a pre-determined and locked in political agenda than it is in publishing scientific data and encouraging open and honest debate.
Predictably the usual suspects lap it up because it 'confirms' their own pre-conceived bias.
Which is no different from the MSM at this point. Quite frankly, I'd trust Gateway Pundit over CNN / MSNBC.
Regardless, the source is irrelevant. They link to their sources / study to make the claim.
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: ScepticScot
I have to admit I'd never heard of The Gateway Pundit before so I've just spent the last 30 minutes or so looking them up.
Granted its not enough to give a qualified opinion but it seems pretty bloody clear to me that it seems more interested in pushing a pre-determined and locked in political agenda than it is in publishing scientific data and encouraging open and honest debate.
Predictably the usual suspects lap it up because it 'confirms' their own pre-conceived bias.
Therefore, the odds of hospitalisation of treated patients was 84% less than in the untreated patients
The Facts
Dr. Joseph S. Alpert, editor-in-chief of the AJM, said the journal does not endorse HCQ treatment for COVID-19.
"This article does not mean the journal recommended this therapy," he said. "The authors recommended it just as others recommend other interventions. We just publish their findings and recommendations."
Alpert said the journal often presents multiple sides of a scientific argument.
"We have also published articles from other authorities that said don't use it [HCQ treatment]," he said. "This is still controversial with two sides saying different things. Often we have editorials that dispute the article's recommendations. We are a scientific journal and do not push or recommend any specific thing. The authors do that."
The result is consistent with the updated analysis provided in that suggests high efficacy of CQ/HCQ in early treatments and lower efficacy and controversial results only for late treatment.
Statistically, 100% of early treatment studies are positive, late treatment studies are mixed with 70% positive effects, 78% of pre-exposure prophylaxis studies are positive, and 100% of post-exposure prophylaxis studies also report positive effects.
originally posted by: 111DPKING111
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: ScepticScot
I have to admit I'd never heard of The Gateway Pundit before so I've just spent the last 30 minutes or so looking them up.
Granted its not enough to give a qualified opinion but it seems pretty bloody clear to me that it seems more interested in pushing a pre-determined and locked in political agenda than it is in publishing scientific data and encouraging open and honest debate.
Predictably the usual suspects lap it up because it 'confirms' their own pre-conceived bias.
Yes, right wing sites are quick to pick up on the left wing shenanigans and vice versa..
You can look at his peer reviewed study yourself, its just the ugly truth.
www.sciencedirect.com...
Therefore, the odds of hospitalisation of treated patients was 84% less than in the untreated patients
Or review on a more liberal friendly site
finance.yahoo.com...
originally posted by: schadenfreude
a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe
you're right, it wasn't missed. i remember hearing of clinics in Houston on sirius xm with 100% success rate SIX MONTHS AGO.
These "ppl" are reprehensible.
I dont think prosecution is in order.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: ScepticScot
Yes, scientist are great, but now when the funding for the programs comes also from bias sources trying to push their own agendas with the backing of scientist you can not trust.
That is another issue behind scientist, I like to read what independent studies say about issues, but many of this work is dismiss because it does not align with the status quo.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: TzarChasm
In American big pharma big money has done a great job destroying cures, because is not money in cures, but is plenty on useless long treatments specially those that last a lifetime.
The paper itself is based on his own patient data.
That doesn't necessarily mean it conclusions are wrong but should be viewed with a fair degree of cynicism and questions regarding its objectivity.
HCQ is effective for COVID-19. The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 195 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 1 quadrillion (p = 0.0000000000000009).
Early treatment is most successful, with 100% of studies(25) reporting a positive effect and an estimated reduction of 67% in the effect measured (death, hospitalization, etc.) using a random effects meta-analysis, RR 0.33 [0.25-0.43].
There is evidence of bias towards publishing negative results. 88% of prospective studies report positive effects, and only 75% of retrospective studies do.
Studies from North America are 4.0 times more likely to report negative results than studies from the rest of the world combined, p = 0.00000005.