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Matt Perri's avatar

The real story here is the perceived need to be anonymous. This isn’t the first of this, and I expect it won’t be the last. Is this fear of being cancelled? Job security? Peer pressure? Sad statement on the state of science. Help me understand.

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Susannah Friemel MD's avatar

What percentage of physicians/providers back this up? I feel like it must me a minority - stand your ground.

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Tom Hogan's avatar

What percentage of physicians didn't act like panicked sheep at the start of the pandemic? Single digit percent.

What percent thought that HCQ was dangerous when used as a short course to treat covid? A vast majority, most of whom have never prescribed HCQ. I never heard a single rheumatologist warn about the dangers of HCQ. Were family med docs warning about the dangers? They have patients who get HCQ from them. Only the cardiologists screamed bloody murder--docs who have no experience prescribing HCQ.

Panic in the ignorant medical sheep.

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Quest's avatar

One issue is the enormous cost of medical school and the debt-slave mentality of toeing the line that is required thereafter; if your profession is being targeted by regulatory inquisitors, you best do as your told, or die a destitute soul.

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Tom Hogan's avatar

Indeed, for liability reasons, physicians are a bunch of sheep. The rogues are a tiny minority. Of course, this tendency among physicians limits the impact of science on their profession.

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DM, MD's avatar

Well if they have any official capacity in public health I am sure it is job security, yes. And have you seen the new Stasi out there on social media looking for misinformation/disinformation to go after licenses (NLFD, State of California AB2098) or your certifications: ABIM, AAP? The McCarthy zealotry about what you can and cannot question is remarkable.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Maybe fear of being murdered like all those scientists at the start of the pandemic… or like the guy in Canada who manufactured all the hydroxychloroquine…

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Username's avatar

Whoa, I hadn't heard of this!

I'd like to follow up on this. Who were these scientists?

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Lol.

Type in “hydroxychloroquine maker murdered”

“Scientists shot”

“Scientists fell out of window”

I mean damn, the passenger plane the Russians shot down some years ago was full of AIDS scientists.

Weird how the international community made a stink but no one was every held accountable…

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