Having authority over people is legitimate, having control is decreed.
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Remundo wrote:the more a power is incompetent, the more it needs authoritarianism.
Having authority over people is legitimate, having control is decreed.
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Remundo wrote:
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Remundo wrote:edit: i just stumbled on it
Julienmos wrote:there is also talk of chloroquine, at one point
Scientific truth cannot be decreed with the applaudimeter. It does not emerge from political discourse, petitions or social networks. In science, it is neither the majority weight nor the argument of authority which prevails.
It was however in this type of drift that the search for active drug treatments against Covid-19 went astray: too much haste in communication, too many premature announcements, too much discord between the teams, too much pressure from all kinds, but not enough science.
... there have been so many passionate, even compassionate, positions in favor of hydroxychloroquine before any comparative trial, and the pressures so strong in an anxiety-provoking context, that the patients would not accept to enter the trial only with the certainty of not being included in the placebo arm, which is incompatible with the very principle of the controlled trial. Consequently, few being those who agreed to contribute to the advancement of science.
In addition, the spontaneously favorable development of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 85% of cases means that a large number of participants must be recruited to demonstrate the effectiveness of treatment in the initial phase of the disease. However, the regrettable dispersion of trials limits the size of the workforce and reduces the statistical power of the results.
Finally, the hype in favor of hydroxychloroquine being seconded to remdesivir and tocilizumab on the basis of modest preliminary results, it is important to remain cautious while awaiting their confirmation ...
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