This is an infuriating new frontier in #COVID19 #disinformation.
Here we a professional-looking website claiming to present results from a randomized controlled trial of hydrochloroquine.
No authors or affiliations are listed, just a twitter account.
https://hcqtrial.com/
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Replying to @CT_Bergstrom
It isn’t new. Harvey Risch alluded to it, as has the antiscience crank physicians’ group
@AAPSonline. It is, however, an expansion of the lie.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hydroxychloroquine-to-treat-covid-19-evidence-cant-seem-to-kill-it/ …3 replies 6 retweets 62 likes
It definitely reeks of astroturfing, though. Given that Harvey Risch is the first source mentioning an “analysis” like this that I saw, I seriously wonder if he had a hand in this.
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