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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.

Michigan, USA
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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 5

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Saurabh Jha

      I've been wondering this myself for months. The whole conspiracy theory is that #HydroxyChloroquine and #Ivermectin are cheap, plentiful drugs that big pharma doesn't make money on, which is why evidence of their efficacy is "suppressed."https://twitter.com/RogueRad/status/1367825455882113026 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Saurabh Jha @RogueRad
      How is it that hydroxychloroquine & ivermectin created a cult that steroids never could? Is there a pharmacological explanation?
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 5

      But dexamethasone is a cheap, plentiful drug that big pharma doesn't make a lot of money on too, and it actually works in #COVID19 patients. So why all the evidence-resistant conspiracy cult love for #HydroxyChloroquine and #Ivermectin but none for dexamethasone?🤔

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    3. Matthew Herper‏Verified account @matthewherper Mar 5
      Replying to @gorskon

      Dex doesn’t offer the fantasy of ending the pandemic. I see this all the time with biotech stocks. Some attract cult followings of retail investors. Some don’t. It’s often not clear why.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 5
      Replying to @matthewherper

      True, but I've never quite understood why #HydroxyChloroquine and #Ivermectin do offer that fantasy, given the initial paucity of evidence and then the accumulating evidence that they don't work.

      5:32 AM - 5 Mar 2021
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        2. Ed MD‏ @notdred Mar 5
          Replying to @gorskon @matthewherper

          My observation is that the data mean squat to these types, the appeal is that these drugs are readily available, pretty tolerable to take, and allow them to pretend they don’t have to worry about the pandemic at all. Steroids: lots of side effects and used for severe disease

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        3. Chemical Thoughts‏ @ExecCanuck Mar 5
          Replying to @notdred @gorskon @matthewherper

          Aren’t there more tolerance / side effect concerns with HCQ / inver than with hexamethadone?

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        1. GETTEM BABS #NoLicenseForDisinformation‏ @babs_zone Mar 5
          Replying to @gorskon @matthewherper

          I think it’s the idea that they can take just a little pill every day and be protected. When I would push back on that as a lupus patient that relies on HCQ, proponents got super defensive and ableist. They don’t care to hear the realities that medication is not a silver bullet.

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