1. This is a very brief story about how two members of the U.S. COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel hid their financial disclosures with Gilead Sciences, makers of remdesivir...
2. Exhibit A: On April 22, Rajesh Gandhi and Pablo Tebas disclosed financial relationships with Gilead Sciences.
3. Exhibit B: Sometime between then and now, Rajesh Gandhi and Pablo Tebas retracted their disclosures of financial relationships with Gilead Sciences.
1. This is a thread compiling the most interesting threads of the 2020 pandemic. If you've seen a thread or even a single epic tweet that you think belongs, share it and I'll consider adding it.
2. The #LancetGate may get a few mentions along the way.
How did anyone who handle the Surgisphere study prior to publication think it would look real?
1. This thread is about a statistical phenomenon called a Simpson's paradox and how it relates to the #Hydroxychloroquine research that gets so hotly debated.
A more complete version of this analysis will appear in my next book #TheChloroquineWars.
2. If you are unfamiliar with Simpson's paradoxes, you can read up on the basics here. However, the example I present may well teach the concept. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%2…
3. Consider three hospitals with different treatment policies. Perhaps the standard of care (SoC) is uniform, for the sake of simplicity, but the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) treatment policies are different.
Unfortunately, it's going to be a couple of weeks before I complete my book, #TheChloroquineWars about the strange tale of #Hydroxychloroquine politics during the pandemic. It's not an easy book to write in 10 weeks. So, as a teaser, I'm going to tweet out a full chapter now...
Chapter 29: A Clockwork Orange Man
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” --Galileo Galilei
In 1951, Solomon Asch conducted a landmark experiment in which students were asked to match the segment on a card with one of the same length on another card, a total of 18 times.