18/n On top of this, the outcome measure is terrible. There is no attempt to clarify whether the reported deaths from Our World In Data are correct for the country, simply the assumption that Algeria and France have comparable death reporting systems
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29/n Oh, another thing The authors keep maintaining on Twitter that this study was "random" because patients didn't choose what treatment they got, countries did This is absolute nonsense
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30/n Firstly, it is misdefining random If ANYONE chooses the treatment, then it's not random BY DEFINITION Random means no one chooses, it's that simple
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31/n But also - PATIENTS DID CHOOSE This is where we get back to the ecological fallacy - it is absurd to suggest that individuals within countries didn't choose to take HCQ. Even countries that authorised it had adopters and non-adopters
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32/n This protocol was BY NO POSSIBLE DEFINITION "random" Using the term is incorrect, and at best ignorant not just of the scientific terminology but also the colloquial meaning of the word
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Greece jumped out at me... did they not look at number of reported cases?
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