The paper linking vaccines with autism was also retracted, and that didn't stop them.
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Unfortunately... Isn't there a saying like "the amount of effort to refute bullshit is much large than the amount needed to produce it" or something? So sadly the HCQ thing is just going to stay there for now; the journal taking 4.5 years to retract it didn't help either
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."
Andrew Wakefield has a lot to answer for.
"they're hiding the truth", that's what fuels conspiracy theories.
People are not bright. If a source they trust says something is bad, it’s hard to back track.
Shit, a lot of people still think egg yokes substantially increase blood cholesterol.
More proof that hydroxychloroquine is a miracle drug and the lizard people just don't want us to know about it.
I mean, it is an awesome drug! I use it a lot. Even in covid suffers - when COVID activates an autoimmune disease.
Let’s do ivermectin next! I’ll go first: fantastic for endo and ectoparasites, and even a subset of folks with rosacea. Does jack all for Covid infections.
Yeah ivermectin is a miracle drug …in antiparasitic medicine. Virology not so much
I…. Isn’t that what I said?
It's a miracle drug but only if you're a lizard person. You need that zeta reticulan biology for it to work.
Agree... So many people are so far gone from logic that anything and everything either proves them right or is a conspiracy. Guess free education is important in a society that wants to remain just this... A society of people living and functioning together. We are entering the "find out" phase
Countless hours and public funds, wasted.
and also, you know, human lives.
I assume it took that long because good science is rarely fast and fast science is rarely good
The Covid vaccines were fast and good.
They were remarkably fast for a vaccine, they were effective and also the most unpleasant vaccine I've had. And they involved the industrialized world dumping huge amounts of resources into their creation. They also took significantly longer than the study proposing hydrocychloroquine. The study refuting it wasn't on a timer so it was able to take it slow and go at the pace of normal science.
Yes, but also we were incredibly lucky that most of the technology already existed. If covid happened 5 years prior, we would not have those vaccines.
I still don't get why the higher ups pushed this and Ivermectin so hard. Like, they clearly aren't anti big pharma, so it must be someone getting their beak wet. But who?
If you remember the time, Trump was pushing for any narrative that could let him say COVID wasn't a big deal and would just disappear. He was looking for easy answers.
He was looking for easy answers.
This is fucking everyone and it's so goddamn bleak.
Yeah that's the problem with people in leadership roles. They should know better than to think complex problems have easy solutions.
Unfortunately, a lot of the voting public gravitate towards the leaders that assure them there are easy answers. The average person doesn't want to hear a nuanced answer to a complex issue.
You want a conspiracy theory?
It was designed to make any criticism of big pharma look crazy.
Which it also didn't do. Nobody "trusts" "big Pharma". They trust doctors, scientists, and the regulatory bodies that oversee them.
Hanlon's razor
The damage is done. The conspiracy nuts will just believe that the all mysterious “they” are trying to hide research.
lol, all you can do is laugh. crying, yelling, pleading, recitation of observable fact, nothing will move the needle for the morons who think that any solution which assists both white people and brown people equally must be evil to be defeated
nothing will move the needle for the morons
It's quite easy to move their needle, just have trump tell them something and they'll fight to the death to defend whatever dumb ass thing he told them.
Not really. Trump just adjusts his story when he notices it's not well received. He even started to promote getting vaccinated to keep his base from dieing, noticed the pushback and changed his message to anti-vax again.
He's the reason they were opposed to preventative measures in the first place. What a loser.
That's how he runs. It's like those people "summoning spirits" doing a cold reading, but in a much larger scale.
"I sense you are bothered by roads, airplanes, children, jobs"
"Yes, jobs. How did you know?"
"And it's all the fault of trees, donkeys, cars, doctors, immigrants."
"I really hate immigrants."
"so we'll build a bicycle, sidewalk, front door, barbed wire, a wall"
"Oh yes, we need a wall to keep them out. This guy is really telling it like it is."
When asked later why he suggested a bicycle, this is vehemently denied even when recordings are shown.
There's also a feedback loop. He rants about what they want to hear and they worry about what he tells them to worry about frequently enough. This is how people who had been afraid of immigrants but otherwise normal wind up terrified of antifa and queer people making them stop eating meat. And while this is happening there are people like Steve bannon who've been intentionally developing techniques to indoctrinate people to the far right.
What are you even talking about? I can’t tell if you’re for or against the retraction of this obviously flawed study.
Pretty sure they are saying that vaccines are proven to help everyone, and that morons (RFK Jr, etc.) want to destroy them because vaccines helps black people.
I hope that is what they are saying.
Yes, the comment could use some light editing (and capitalization) but that's correct.
It did what it needed to.
Now that the damage is done, they can pretend to have integrity again to convince people to believe them when they publish the next "miracle study".