[FRIAM] Covid-Lancet-PART-2 (002).doc

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Dear Colleagues, 

 

I attach a paper <https://1drv.ms/w/s!AptIKbsAd7gjllccpq9yXXQ4hb2N?e=HCzjaV>
written by an internet acquaintance I made some years back, Dragan Pavlovic.
I am sending it along for two reasons.  First, it reveals (to me, at least)
that the two negative studies on Hydroxychloroquine use in SARS-CoVid-19
treatment were based on unverified data and were withdrawn by their authors
almost immediately.  (Have the rest of you known this for the last year and
not told me?  I cannot believe, after we pilloried poor Dave for advocating
for it, that he has not gloated about it. ) Second, Pavlovic raises the
intension/extension distinction in the context of the interpretation of
scientific results and also questions Randomized Control Trials as the "Gold
Standard" for discovery. Thus, I think he is a kindred spirit, being a bit
of a grumpy contrarian like many of us here.  I have promised to forward any
comments you make to him, so be polite but speak truth.   

 

Thanks, 

 

Nick Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

 

 

 

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