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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Aug 2020

      Why is #Hydroxychloroquine still a thing for #COVID19? If it were any other drug, the drip-drip-drip off negative studies, first observational and now more and more randomized controlled trials, would have sunk it long ago. Truly, HCQ pushers resemble a cult.

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    2. Doug Reedich‏ @dreedich 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @gorskon

      Some folks say that hcq has been shown to have no beneficial effect. It probably doesn’t. However, a reasonable pro-HCQ position would be that studies are insufficiency powered to establish that it has no beneficial effect. That’s a high bar.

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreedich

      The problem with that argument is that #Hydroxychloroquine advocates tout the drug as a miracle cure. They’re not saying it has a modest effect. They’re saying it’s a “game changer” to end the pandemic. Existing studies have certainly been sufficiently powered to rule that out.

      5 replies 8 retweets 72 likes
    4. Doug Reedich‏ @dreedich 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @gorskon

      Shoot I’m not even saying it has a modest effect. I’m saying that failure to statistically prove an effect isn’t that same as statistically proving a lack of effect.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreedich

      Oh, goody. You're attacking a straw man then, as I never said that.🙄

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    6. Doug Reedich‏ @dreedich 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @gorskon

      But I never said it had any effect.

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    7. Doug Reedich‏ @dreedich 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreedich @gorskon

      I just said exactly the same thing...not proving an effect isn’t proving no effect. This thread is full of people saying it is proven to not work. That’s logically wrong.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Take that, Avogadro  💉 💉‏ @6x10E23 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreedich @gorskon

      You cannot prove a negative. was this study insufficiently powered? https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1849 … How many patients would you expose to potentially serious adverse effects to get your proof?

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    9. Doug Reedich‏ @dreedich 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @6x10E23 @gorskon

      I don’t want or need such proof. I just want the language around this to be precise so the kooks can’t pick on the wording to support their contention that we are lying about the hcq studies.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreedich @6x10E23

      Ah, so you’re concern trolling. Got it now.😏

      12:46 PM - 4 Aug 2020
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