[FRIAM] anthropological observations

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

But Glen, 

The Laws of Scientific Procedure ARE the laws I am talking about here.  In good times, we can take the time to focus on the consequences to individuals.  And so, we can design our health systems for the most vulnerable among us.  That imposes delays on the "mean" patient, but no problem, we have other ways of treating the mean patient.  In an emergency,  the possibility that one in a million patients might have an allergy to some component of Chlorwhatitsface seems reasonably to be less relevant, even though it's built into the laws of scientific medical  procedure. 

Nick

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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How much do you push? How many patients does it help? Would it be like the current shelves at Target a month ago ... where Renee' noticed that even though hydrogen peroxide sterilizes, the shelves were FULL of it, but there were no isopropyl alcohol bottles anywhere in the store. How much good does it do to have fridge shelves full of hydroxychloroquine when it only helps a tiny percentage of patients (if that)?  ... and what percentage of patients would it help again?

The point of the _science_ is unrelated to "the law", despite Dave's paranoia about the establishment. The point of the science is that we don't know what we're doing. It's not like stopping or not stopping at a red light. It's like adding chemical X to solution Y when we don't know what X or Y is in the first place. Once the science gives us high confidence about how much, when, who, etc, *then* it'll become more like running a red light.

On 4/13/20 1:24 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> So to what extent, I am wondering, is not pushing out 
> chlor-whatitsface to every hospital in the country a case of stopping at the red light at the wilderness intersection in the middle of the night?


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