RE: I realize that the image of the maverick scientist or physician working valiantly to find a cure at the last minute is romantic and very popular in science fiction shows.
I am not trying to create an image of anyone. I am trying to tell you that this is the situation we ALREADY FACE. You work with what you have and if there is sufficient science behind it, such as successful studies made in other countries, and successful existing cases, you TRY to replicate it. You don’t have many alternatives in an abnormal situation like we face now.
And your use of the word “maverick”is out of place here. Dr. Zelenko is ONE AMONG MANY doctors who are using this drug cocktail to treat their patients. I can cite several other names and even give you information on how to contact them. Are they all mavericks too, just because the Mainstream press ignore them?
RE: Charlatans love to cite studies, but that does not make them credible.
Ahh, but were the studies cited SOUND? Were the past studies actually made by researchers who have done their job and PUBLISHED THEM as best as they could? If so, then why not try to replicate them?
One does not say — hey charlatans exist and then based on this observation, tar and feather every doctor out there as potential charlatans.
Dr. Zelenko, in my view, is not a careless doctor. He specifically stated that he based his own treatment on what he already read in PUBLISHED papers,and on PAST CASES he has observed. His treatment was NOT original and he would be the first to tell you. what’s different is he had the chance to administer the protocol in a SPECIFIC COMMUNITY — The Hasidic Community that he serves.
Also, the HCQ dosage he applies to his patients are LESS than the dosage used for Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis, which have been used by patients for YEARS without issues.
AS for publishing his findings, I already told you that he isn’t the sort of person who keeps his work a mystery.
1) He MADE HIS PROTOCOL KNOWN TO EVERYONE — Dosage,patient profile, etc.
2) He organized a study with New York’s prestigious St. Francis Hospital in Long Island to replicate his protocol. I invite you to listen to his latest interview ( drive time last night ) regarding the pending results of the clinical study here:
https://am970theanswer.com/radioshow/578
Search of the podcast titled:
Dr. Zev Zelenko On POTUS Taking Hydroxychloroquine
A charlatan would not even bother to present his protocol for formal clinical trials.
Finally,ask yourself this -— where’s the money for him? There is none. He has no stake in any company providing the drugs, and no personal advantage to his making his protocol public other than to be attacked by skeptics.
This man, by all indicators do not meet the characteristics of a charlatan.
I have already described some of the indicators of a charlatan. The fact that he has not registered a trial or sought institutional review board approval of any study is a red flag. His lack of publishing of any data or case study is a red flag. His mockery of the clinical trial process—the only means we have of knowing whether a treatment actually works—is a red flag. And so on.
There are real clinical trials going on for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. These are registered trials, conducted with carefully reviewed protocols by people who are experts in their fields.
It is an unfortunate fact that charlatans pop up to take advantage of people, and they know just what to say to sway a certain group of people. They know how to make people trust them, at the same time casting doubts on the “medical establishment”—in other words, the practice of evidence based medicine. This guy seems no different.
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