Donald Trump keeps on showing us an alarming combination of arrogance and ignorance. His recent promotion of fake hope via a malaria drug is shown in a 3-minute video from Guardian News on April 5, 2020 titled Trump grilled over continued promotion of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus. But Dr. Anthony Fauci had said there only was anecdotal evidence it works, which is a polite adult way of saying that all we really have so far is fairy tales. Medical science rightly requires that we keep from fooling ourselves by doing double-blind clinical trials comparing a treatment against an inert placebo.
On April 6th there was an article by Jonathan Chait at New
York Magazine titled Why Trump is overruling scientists to pursue his pet
coronavirus drug. There was another angry article by David Gorski at Respectful
Insolence titled Hydroxychloroquine and covid-19: science-based medicine has no
chance against Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, and Dr. Oz. Dr. Gorski pointed out
that Trump’s claim there is nothing to lose is nonsense, since that drug
has serious side effects (impaired vision and seizures). And on April 7th there was an article by Charles
Piller in Science titled Former FDA leaders decry emergency authorization of
malaria drugs for coronavirus.
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