[conspire] When to get a covid test, brains, and a weird case, and a cardiology vs. immunology joke

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Aug 6, 2020, at 12:50 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 
> Quoting Elise Scher (elise.scher01 at gmail.com):
> 
>> So Ruben, why don't you believe it?
> 
> I'm curious, too.  This was a peer-reviewed study in _The Lancet_, which
> (for any who really don't know) has been one of the most respected
> medical journals in the world, for just short of 200 years.
> 
> That doesn't make them infallible:  In 1998, it published a paper by
> Andrew Wakefield and 11 co-authors suggesting the MMR vaccine is
> implicated in children's autism and colitis.  The paper was later proven
> to be fraudulent, although (predictably) it's still to this day cited by
> antivaxers as if it were credible.

_The Lancet_ and others were caught up in outright data fraud trying to sell snake oil in the form of chloroquine / hydroxychloroquine (which, to be clear, do work for some autoimmune diseases and malaria, and some side effects in some viruses) earlier this year:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling

The peer review process is not designed to catch data fraud that deep.

Deirdre
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