Posted on 05/16/2020 9:05:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This past week the far left New York Times released a report where they belittled “eminent French microbiologist Didier Raoult” and his claims for a quick and powerful cure for the China coronavirus:
When diagnosing the ills afflicting modern science, an entertainment that, along with the disparagement of his critics and fellow researchers, he counts among his great delights, the eminent French microbiologist Didier Raoult will lightly stroke his beard, lean back in his seat and, with a thin but unmistakable smile, declare the poor patient to be stricken with pride. Raoult, who has achieved international fame since his proposed treatment for Covid-19 was touted as a miracle cure by President Trump, believes that his colleagues fail to see that their ideas are the products of mere intellectual fashions — that they are hypnotized by methodology into believing that they understand what they do not and that they lack the discipline of mind that would permit them to comprehend their error. “Hubris,” Raoult told me recently, at his institute in Marseille, “is the most common thing in the world.” It is a particularly dangerous malady in doctors like him, whose opinions are freighted with the responsibility of life and death. “Someone who doesn’t know is less stupid than someone who wrongly thinks he does,” he said. “Because it is a terrible thing to be wrong.”
The hit piece attacks Dr. Raoult for recommending a cure for the China coronavirus – hydroxychloroquine:
It is in this spirit that, over the objections of his peers, and no doubt because of them, too, he has promoted a combination of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, and azithromycin, a common antibiotic, as a remedy for Covid-19. He has taken to declaring, “We know how to cure the disease.” Trump was not the only one eager to embrace this possibility. By the time I arrived in Marseille, some version of Raoult’s treatment regimen had been authorized for testing or use in France, Italy, China, India and numerous other countries. One in every five registered drug trials in the world was testing hydroxychloroquine.
The NY Times Magazine hit piece uses the comments of another doctors and experts to refute Dr. Raoult’s exemplary success using hydroxychloroquine:
Other scientists disagreed with this characterization of the results. “The cure rate is almost identical to what’s been described about the natural course of the disease,” the virologist Christine Rouzioux told French radio.
The problems with the piece in the NY Times Magazine is that it is very biased and slanted. For example, the comments from virologist Christine Rouzioux are based on an BFM TV interview Christine Rouzioux gave on April 9th, which was based on Raoult’s interview on French France’s Radio Classique on April 1.
The NY Times Magazine is just amplifying the message that no other drug but Gilead’s Remdesivir will work.
Gilead has connections to China and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the China coronavirus is suspected of originating:
Virologist Christine Rouzioux is connected to the ‘Bat Doctor’ Zhenzli Shi, who is reportedly connected to the release of the China coronavirus in Wuhan.
Rouzioux knows Zhengli Shi as they both hang around the same French academic and professional circles (both received the same French honorary medals for the same work). They also both have worked on projects that were directly related to Gilead drug R&D which were eventually translated to patents.
Rouzioux specializes in HIV and has worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology which is also doing joint HIV R&D with several universities and institutions in France including: Paris-Descartes University, Institute Pasteur, and University of Montpellier ( Zhengli’s PhD alma mater). Gilead Science has sponsored some of that research.
Beyond the joint research, there is also very close operational relationship between the Wuhan P4 site and the Lyon P4 Laboratory.
The French government designed and supervised the construction of the Wuhan P4 lab and were connected to all of the operational maintenance and personal training there.
This may explain this critical hit piece on Dr. Raoult.
New York Times just did a feature on @raoult_didier‘s research on hydroxychloroquine.
Surprise surprise…the three “prominent French doctors” quoted criticizing Raoult’s work are all either on Gilead’s advisory board and/or receive funding from Gilead.https://t.co/CxhXPOwzUi
— James Todaro, MD (@JamesTodaroMD) May 12, 2020
It makes you wonder who really wrote this hit piece?
Hat tip Yaacov Apelbaum
And I thought we were supposed to “listen to the science” whatever the eff the leftists who spout this meaningless phrase thought they were saying [the only sound that science makes is the blessed sound of silence. Scientists on the other hand are a noisy cantangerous argumentative bunch].
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Ballots by mail, lockdowns, etc.
Mob princesses are experts on 15-buck-a-pint ice cream, though.
Dr. Didier Raoult, MD, PhD is outstanding and awesome. He and Dr. Zalenko, MD deserve the highest honors. Pray we defeat the Deep State and their fake media so that these heroic doctors can be given the credit they deserve.
I wish people would wake up: When the democrats start hissing about Sssssssss-eye-enssssssssce, they are talking about the $$$$$$$$$ciencec
NY TIMES hit piece.
Right on schedule.
let’s hope the DR can sue the NYT for slander or libel or something- sure them into oblivion
the writer at NY Mag is Scott Sayare:
12 May: NY Mag: He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19.
The man behind Trump’s favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world.
By Scott Sayare
(Scott Sayare is a writer in New York. He previously lived in Paris and was stranded there in March when borders began closing around the world)
https://archive.is/WwWVa#selection-423.0-425.12
NY Magazine is owned by Vox Media:
Wikipedia: Vox Media
In September 2019, Vox Media agreed to acquire and merge with New York Media, the parent company of New York magazine...
Funding
In December 2014, Vox Media raised a US$46.5 million round led by the growth equity firm General Atlantic...
In August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $200 million equity investment in Vox Media, valuing the company at more than $1 billion. Comcast, which owns NBC, additionally already owned 14% of Vox through other subsidiaries...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Media
in his own words:
About Scott Sayare
His features and essays have appeared in Harper’s, The New Republic, GQ, The Guardian Long Read, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and various other publications. Before turning to magazine work, he reported for The New York Times, attached to the newspaper’s foreign bureau in Paris and dispatched across France, Europe and North Africa...
http://www.scottsayare.com/about
My fiancee is French. She tells me that Raoult is a hero for many in France, that there was an attempt to de-certify him in some way, but public fury over his treatment resulted in his reinstatement. He received death threat(s), and at least one was traced to a hospital MD pool phone! Interesting that over there, French Christians like President Trump...but did not like President Bush. Also their nursing home situation is like that of New York state. People are quite angry about this. These French people are, in many ways, our allies.
Cuomo refutes Trump, insists NY needs up to 40,000 ventilators: ‘I operate on facts’
https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/03/cuomo-refutes-trump-insists-ny-needs-up-to-40000-ventilators-i-operate-on-facts.html
When the Democrats start hissing about Sssssssss-eye-en-ce, they really mean $$$$$$$$cience.
The worst part of it is that they continuously proclaim how much they "care"- "It's for the children" exc...All they really care about is keeping their corruption going, and filling their own pockets at the expense of everyone.
When will people wake up?
According to this page, https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/, Dr. Raoult has treated 3295 patients with HCQ + azithromycin. Among patients who have taken the drug combo for over three days, there have been 17 deaths.
The story of the HCQ treatment during this pandemic is one of the most irrational things that I have seen. Are all of the doctors who have seen incredible success with it lying? What would be their motive? What would they have to gain? There are thousands of success stories with the HCQ treatment. Entire nations are now using it.... are their doctors idiots or do they know less than journalists?
It is dumbfounding to me how this story has been covered. A treatment for the disease with a high success rate (nothing is perfect) would be the best news possible. I guess that is the answer....
On top of that, we have a full court press by a large pharmaceutical company for their new drug. I hope and pray it works! That would be good news, but the promotion of one seems to involve the denigrating of the other.
I have a background in biology/chemistry. I don’t claim any expertise and don’t use my degree in my current occupation, but I can think critically and evaluate information on my own. I have told my family if they get sick with this to demand the HCQ treatment immediately. Document the response. If they are refused ask for a second opinion immediately. Seek a third if necessary.
I hope ALL of these drugs work as a treatment. I definitely do not trust the media. In fact, if the NYT badmouths something than I am all for it and I am on solid ground given the quality of their reporting the last 3 years.
There are going to be so many lawsuits flying after this pandemic that I would invest in lawyers if it were possible.
The nursing home situation in NYC, the refusal to treat with HCQ, the slander and libel.
It will be a good time to be a lawyer. Sadly, the ones who cannot afford all of this thanks to the shutdowns are hospitals.
It’s Jim Hoft. Is it really necessary to explain how tenuous his guilt by “six degrees of separation” is?
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