Thread by @EduEngineer

There is a strangely organized rumor going around that the AMA passed a resolution recognizing the efficacy of HCQ and calling on a reversal of its suppression. Unfortunately, that resolution was not passed, but I suggest the story is more interesting than that...

When you think about it, the resolution never had a chance of passing. Intuitively, we all know this. The AMA and Pharma are far too intertwined, and further with the government. Suggesting that the resolution could pass would be to suggest there was no opposition to begin with.

But here is the interesting part: Almost nobody, save for the few of us doing broad levels of research on the topic, knew to step in and correct the mistake. What does that mean?

The "superior, educated aspiring elites" would happily correct any real error, but most of them were as in the dark as everyone else. I know because I have conversations with enough of them.

The doctors themselves have clammed up. In all the dishonesty and chaos, most of them have an incentive right now to back out of all public discourse. The simplest statements, correct or not, can be scandalized in a heartbeat. Hard earned vocations can evaporate overnight.

The media doesn't want the subject to get past, "Can you believe those idiots are still talking about HCQ?" unless the continuation is, "When can we open re-education camps?"

What that means is that the hopeful researchers, who want to be honest but trust too easily when the trust suggests the opposition is dishonest, were lost in the woods.

I suggest this isn't the first time that's happened and it won't be the last.

In fact, as we are locked down, sharing information primarily through social network filters, you should suspect that we are all subject to an enormous number of rapid psychological experiments.

This may have been one of them.

Don't think too hard unless you're going to go deep at the research level. In your gut, you know it's true.

But that's the problem, too. From here on out, they're working on how to shift your gut.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.