LancetGate: Pulling a Fast One on Proponents
of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine
The American Spectator,
by
George Parry
Original Article
Posted By: Zarin,
6/1/2020 2:36:29 PM
The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and best-known medical journals. According to its “manifesto,” it “sets extremely high standards. We select only the best research papers for their quality of work and the progression they bring.… We recognize that a great research paper is not enough and that it requires development, mobilization and exposure. So we promise to set agendas, create context, inform leaders, start debates, and advocate for the idea that research can and will make a difference.”
Pursuant to that mission statement, on May 22, 2020, the Lancet published a study ...
Reply 1 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/1/2020 2:47:20 PM (No. 428619)
Its more science on the order of Global Warming: a serious study showing results agreed to by a consensus of experts but produced by a non-existant or questionable source.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
AGGW 6/1/2020 2:50:07 PM (No. 428621)
Agree with OP.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Avanti1 6/1/2020 3:15:23 PM (No. 428643)
Reporters in the MSM neither understand nor abide by the scientific method. They quote from one or a few scientists as though what the say is true and indisputable. Challenge and dispute is inherent in the scientific method and is reconciled by use of solid, carefully collected empirical evidence.
Unfortunately the public believes reporters and are thereby misled.
Note that "scientists" once believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Galileo's invention of the telescope, Tycho Brahe's exhaustive celestial observations and Copernicus' analysis and interpretation of Brahe's data disproved the belief of nearly everyone, including "scientists" of his time.l
MANY other examples could be cited. The scientific method requires an open mind and solid empirical evidence. Even then it is limited to the claim that a certain belief or hypothesis fits the empirical evidence to date and can therefore be useful.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/1/2020 3:52:53 PM (No. 428671)
This sounds like a fraud. WHO did this and at whose bequest. Is this a political game? Are some of the pharmaceutical companies developing alternative drugs playing dirty? They are playing with people's live here. The Lancet bears MAJOR responsibility for not verifying this information.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/1/2020 4:21:42 PM (No. 428687)
HCQ has been widely prescribed for 65 years. Hundreds of millions of prescriptions have been written for it worldwide. It's the 128th most commonly prescribed drug in the US . Some patients have taken it for their lifetimes with few or no ill effects.
There hasn't been a single reported case of “arrhythmic death” according to the the W.H.O. and American College of Cardiology in all that time.
It is on the W.H.O.'s list of essential medicines.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mean Gene 6/1/2020 8:56:39 PM (No. 428884)
By trusting two-faced Afghani runners instead of scientific survey, Lancet created the phony "stat" that over 100,000 Afghanis had been killed during the initial days of "Shock & Awe."
All of it untrue, just like this.
Will HCQ and CQ be pulled from Africa?
Didn't think so.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/1/2020 9:46:30 PM (No. 428916)
Like all peer review journals, Lancet is no different. We have accorded the Lancet a lot more credibility than called for. The tip off what when the liberals started wetting their skivvies over Trump taking the meds. I should have known!! Peer reviews are written to impress each other.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2020 10:50:44 PM (No. 428965)
The leftists HATE Trump, and add in the desire to make a lot of money off of the pandemic by selling something expensive and patented. HCQ is old, generic, cheap - all bad for the pharma folks, and the fact that Trump mentioned "it might be a good thing" - drives many of the marginally sane, entirely over the edge, makes them willing to do ANYTHING to "resist". If it potentially helps put some $$ in their pockets, too, they'd see it as a "twofer".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 6/2/2020 7:23:09 AM (No. 429152)
So grateful this is a Must Read...
Thank you, Miss Lucianne Team and OP.
...from someone who didn’t do chemo after cancer twice 12 years ago, just did relevant homework and learned about new/integrative medicine.
KAG
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mizzmac 6/2/2020 7:24:58 AM (No. 429157)
Just imagine how freaked out those who stand to gain from developing an expensive, exclusive vaccine for hyped Covid-19 would be if it turned out over-the-counter treatment agents like zinc, or vitamin C, or even aspirin were effective. They'd be shuttering every Walgreens and CVS in the country. This is about money and power. Everything is.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
gone2pot 6/2/2020 7:37:35 AM (No. 429162)
The virus over reaction by governments and bureaucracies and deep state doctors has absolutely NOTHING to do with science nor with saving lives and everything to do with controlling lives. We are enjoying a purposely created world wide race war now because the Chicom virus over reaction didn't work the way the deep state planned. This article is merely more proof that a known and cheap cure for the Chicom virus cannot stand and must not be used. Dead people are merely broken eggs in the deep state's omelette.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
govlawyer 6/2/2020 7:42:55 AM (No. 429171)
Everybody has a narrative to peddle....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/2/2020 8:19:13 AM (No. 429197)
It is NOT Science when the results can be bought.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/2/2020 8:25:44 AM (No. 429208)
FTA: ''There was no mention of the countries or hospitals from which the data were purportedly obtained, and the authors have DENIED REQUESTS for that information.'' (emphasis mine)
This tells all you need to know about a supposedly scientific study. Any legitimate researcher would be happy to provide that information (and the rest), so that the research could be peer reviewed and validated. A scientist or researcher who hides everything except the ''results'' isn't worth wasting time on.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ivehadit 6/2/2020 9:15:56 AM (No. 429265)
A big point not talked about is this: They don't care if you die. To them, it will depopulate the world. ALL means justify the ends. A fundamental and despicable part of their souls, imho.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 6/2/2020 9:17:17 AM (No. 429267)
The root question on this topic, for me, is why The Lancet would risk what credibility it still has on such an easily discredited 'study?' In my experience, in 100% of cases, when the researchers won't share their data, methods, code, etc, they are corrupt, and therefore so is the related 'research.'
The only answer is that BigPharma / Bill Gates / Other vaccine SIGs have paid them off...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/2/2020 9:22:21 AM (No. 429273)
HotRod (#15) and RikkiTikki (#17), This reminds me of environmentla fraudster Michael Mann and his global warming 'Hockey Stick'. Hidden data, hidden methods, fake results touted by ALL the leftist Big Media.
Same show, same plot, same purpose. Names changed to protect the guilty.
How many hundred thousand PEOPLE did they kill THIS time?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zumkopf 6/2/2020 9:30:57 AM (No. 429281)
Yet another case where a once-respected and once-respectable institution has sacrificed its reputation in service of a political agenda. That people will die because of it is a secondary concern: you cannot defeat Trump without breaking a few eggs.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/2/2020 10:51:55 AM (No. 429402)
Always remember this Eternal Verity - - - -
"All nonprofit institutions will eventually be taken over by communists."
Commies abhor hard work - - commies abhor responsibility - - but - - commies love to steal other peoples' money and property - - then lord it over them. Never ever forget this.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NotaBene 6/2/2020 11:05:22 AM (No. 429445)
Cultural Marxism, like that of the WHO, stops at nothing. They stop at nothing. Their politicization of Science has immediate consequences. To defeat President Donald Trump they deny US the only prophylactic or ambulatory treatment available for the Chinavirus. By all accounts from in the field HCQ+Azt (or doxycycline)+Zinc is curative. Fauci contradicted the President publicly during a press conference standing right next to our Great President.
Michael Mann invented Model data as bad as those Of pro-China Doctors and got elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year, although with unprecedented opposition. Science should mot be used to advance a leftist agenda, but they do. Terrible for western Civilization.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Kafka2 6/2/2020 11:54:49 AM (No. 429544)
In the French research of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine, Dr. Didier Raoult found that these drugs work by slowing or retarding the attack of the virus on the bodies organs giving the patient's body a chance to fight back. This means the medicine needs to be administered early to do any good. In "research" showing HCQ & CQ were not effect, the medicine was not administered until after the virus had done considerable damage. In the VA report, the patients were on their death beds before receiving the medicine.
This is equivalent to waiting until the house is mostly burnt down be fore trying to put out the fire. This reminds me of when "research" appeared saying Saccharine caused cancer when NutraSweet came on the market. The "research" was later proved to be so flawed that it never should have been called research.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/2/2020 2:05:02 PM (No. 429732)
If, heaven forbid, that I contract C-19, and being 77 years old, I going to ask my Dr. to diagnose me with Rheumatoid arthritis or malaria and prescribe the HCQ cocktail. As the libs tell us ad nauseam, "My body, my choice!"
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bythegates 6/2/2020 2:34:18 PM (No. 429776)
If it was unclear before that there is an evil cabal that wants to kill most of us, it's much clearer now.
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There may be a clue in a recent Lancet editorial:
“Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics,” said the journal, which was founded in Britain in 1823.
Settled science, don't you know....
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 6/2/2020 5:38:05 PM (No. 430014)
The list of scientists who challenged the Lancet article is an interesting one. They come from all over the world and can't all be Trump supporters. In fact, one of then is Neil Ferguson, the Imperial College epidemiologist who is widely considered to be the father of the lock-downs.
It did bother me, though, to see this piece accept uncritically the claim that Gregory Rigano and James Todaro are Stanford-affiliated researchers who affirmed the efficacy of HCQ. As far as I can tell, that is a bogus claim that had been accepted uncritically by our brothers on the right. Todaro is an ophthalmologist and Rigano is a lawyer with no substantial or even discernible connection with Stanford Medicine. It appears to me that one or the other might have had some oblique past connection via committee work or something similar, and attached Stanford's name to their paper as window dressing. Rigano comes across as more of a huckster than a researcher. But I don't mean to deprecate all the others who have published on this subject, like New York University.
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How many will die because of this mathematically & scientifically flawed study ? It is grotesque. That by reviewing medical records they have concluded that HCQ & CQ do not good for patients - while on the ground & front line studies show these drugs are lifesavers. Surgisphere Corporation is suspect as it consists only 5 officers - newly formed. France has banned HCQ - mostly because the health minister is at odds with Dr. Didier Raoult who has done most of the decent research. How tragic that personality, corruption & politics has been added to make this crisis all the more difficult. God help us all!