They turned the medical journals into “preprint servers” abandoning peer review and publishing what everyone knew to be garbage—which by the standards of 1918 medicine was really fucking bad.
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People forget how primitive medicine was in 1918. Purging and bleeding were considered quaint but still mainstream. Every remotely competent MD had already been sent overseas for the war--so the stragglers really let their freak flags fly.
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By 1918, the Grand Old Men of the American medical establishment had largely won their battle to marginalize the old "heroic" (read: violent, toxic, unscientific) ways by reforming medical education.
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However, all the good doctors got drafted into the military and sent to Europe to treat the troops, leaving a handful of alcoholic old fossils who were still devotés of the old purging, bleeding paradigm.
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Left in charge, their first impulse was: Could we be doing more with strychnine?
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Their rivals, the homeopaths decided this was their moment to shine...with bogus "trials" and the same bad arguments we hear today to explain away the failures of HCQ and other pet therapies.
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Ironically Spain got blamed because they didn’t have wartime censorship, so their papers reported what was actually happening.
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Does it say anything about why the pandemic was so thoroughly memory holed? I literally never heard of it till I was in my 30s. My mom, who was born in 1931, didn't hear a mention of it till decades later.
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Wartime censorship is a big part of it. The first draft of the pandemic’s history was never written in the US.
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