Who wins the award for my dumbest professorial reply of 2022? 🥁 Semmelweis used “non-pharmacological” (sic) principles with calculations based on applied physics and engineering to recommend handwashing with chlorinated lime—calcium hypochlorite Ca(OCl)2 aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, handwashing is a mechanically engineered protective intervention like seatbelts, bulletproof vests, helmets, parachutes, and respirators. Semmelweis was an engineer. You read that correctly! 🤡
If you really want to believe that the topical application of a corrosive chemical, 4% calcium hypochlorite, to the hands is a “non-pharmacological” mechanistic intervention based on applied physics and engineering, here is more info on caustic lime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_h…
My original thread reiterating that RCTs are not a universal gold standard of proof in all sciences and certainly not in physics or engineering. Neither quantum theory nor relativity theory has been subjected to RCTs or meta-analysis. Nor have parachutes.
Original reply. Notice the use of the “…” ellipsis to wilfully manufacture a maliciously distorted quotation claiming that I asserted that RCTs have no place whatsoever in pharmacological testing under any circumstance. Hasty deletion expected soon
And more on the subject of RCT idiocy. I have no words for how abjectly narrow-minded the majority of those of us in the health sciences are. Please, do more study in the philosophy of sciences
Anyway, I offer a million dollars to anyone who can prove Semmelweis used principles of applied physics and engineering, recognisable to an engineer of his era or ours, to invent handwashing as a mechanical physico-engineering preventative intervention.
The story gets more interesting by the moment. Assoc. Prof Paul Langton, Perth Cardiologist. Thanks to the person who sent me this info. medicalboard.gov.au/News/2014-11-2…
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