It’s the same reason we shouldn’t crowdsource which medicine we take. 1/
Thankfully we don’t have a system where each of us needs to be an expert in figuring it out for ourselves. Someone does that. 2/
Evidence is hard for us each to collect individually. It’s also hard for each of us to interpret. 4/
People who post on Twitter
Newsweek
The president’s son
The president’s daughter in law
The president
Any president
Any Politician
The drug company
A single researcher
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And some of those people may have informed opinions. But do you really want to be in the business of opinion shopping? 6/
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If you think your member of Congress can tell the difference between a well designed trial result & real world evidence, identity politics may be consuming you too much.9/
Are you really going to do the work to track down which drug company is part of which dark money PAC who gave to which politician?
Seems like the hard way to figure out who to trust. 11/
I also get that in scary times like these we want people we can trust. And I know many people trust the president. 12/
That’s not me. But if it was, I still wouldn’t let him make medical decisions. 13/
We would call it the @US_FDA.14/
We can be frustrated every time it messes up. 15/
The one thing we wouldn’t want is an FDA that could be influenced by politicians. Only by evidence. More and better evidence. 16/
But when evidence mounts, the FDA needs to make decisions based on the best evidence. That’s why they withdrew the EUA (emergency use authorization).
Those pushing this drug can’t accuse them on not being bold.18/
I don’t know Lara Trump. And God bless her. But God has better sources of scientific information. 22/
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Smarturl.it/in the bubble
But that doesn’t carry over to the career scientists, clinicians & researchers. They have a tough job here. If you want to know who to believe, start there. /end