FReegards MrEdd and others!
I think that maybe there is a misunderstanding of how the term is being used. But I will absolutely agree the evidence is anecdotal until the double blind trial is done. You are not expected to use that word when referring to this recipe once you hear that the trial succeeds. Usually it is only a few days anyway between the submission of the paper and the peer review and acceptance (of the paper).
There are two ways to get doctors to accept using a drug regimen. Lab evidence and anecdotal. Even after it is accepted they will still share stories with each other and complaints about side effects and unexpected effects.
If you guys show me that the term “anecdotal evidence” is being understood by doctors and clinicians to mean, made up, not true, I will stand corrected.
Also realize that CQ failed in ferrets and guinea pigs with influenza and HIV(?) after it had worked in the dish. The Chinese doctors tried HCQ with nothing to go on but hope. And they saw the effect. Put it straight into patients, and people got better. It don’t happen that way in the US!
Dr. Zelenko has it right, pretty close enough, and the anecdotes are being published and people are staking their reputations on the stories they tell.
I wish it worked perfectly.
I wish everybody had enough of it.
I wish every doctor believed in it.
I wish we knew everything about it.
....(sigh)
If you show me that I was strictly referring to doctors, I will stop mocking you as much as I am about to.
But you have fully earned this.
We have a published study. We have the press and some doctors ignoring because it’s a small foreign study.
When doctors play the whole “not invented here” game they lose respect hard won by previous generations of their profession and they earn disdain.
There is a time you can be pedantic and a time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. This is the latter. There isn’t time for any of that crap about the size of the study being small or the doctors not being American.
You know what else there isn’t time for?
Pretending that crap isn’t happening.
You want Doctors respected?
Persuade them to act respectable. That’s called a prerequisite by the way. Previous generations of doctors understood how that works. Today’s generation of doctors? Not so much.