Claiming that a highly effective “treatment protocol” is a combination of therapies that are individually useless is bizarre.
Continuously adding more meds to the protocol is really just moving the goal posts. Every time a new RCT is negative they claim it didn’t include “x.”
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It takes time to do a RCT.
FLCCC updated their “protocols” dozens of times to stay ahead of the negative studies.
Recently they added hydroxychloroquine - another disproven therapy. No doubt they will next claim that IVM & HCQ are both necessary to “miraculously cure COVID.” 5/
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First a question: which of the following snake venoms have been used to develop medical therapies?
(don't worry we’ll go over the answer at the end)
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It was long known that workers in banana plantations would collapse due to low blood pressure if they were bitten by the Brazilian Arrow Headed Pit Viper Bothrops jararaca.
A Brazilian graduate student - Sergio Ferreira - thought this could be useful... 3/
To understand the proof you should read Dr Sheldricks post.
To summarize, he observed that in this non-randomized study the baseline characteristics of the pre & post intervention groups are far too perfectly matched. This perfect matching is unlikely to occur by chance.
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Specifically, you’d expect to see a range of p values for each baseline characteristic.
(This is especially true in a tiny trial with only n=47 patients)
Instead the range of p values for almost every variable was exactly 1.
This is *extremely* unlikely to occur by chance. 3/
They made a whole lot of money in 2020. This included:
$84.9m in revenue from ERAS
$32.7m from the AMCAS
$27.1m from the MCAT
$14.4m from membership dues
$10.3m from workshops
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Here’s a situation many of us have seen in the ICU or ED: “It looked like there was ST elevation on the monitor but when I took a 12 lead it was gone?!”
A STEMI went MIA? Here’s a #tweetorial all about why ST segments look different on monitors.
First, here’s another great example of "disappearing ST elevation", from Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog @smithECGBlog
(If you don’t already you should definitely follow Dr Smith & bookmark his site; hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com IMO it's the best site for ECGs; you can thank me later) 2/
In order to understand *WHY* the ST segment looks different, we need to know how an ECG works & understand just a little bit of electronics & math.
(Don't worry, I promise no equations or circuit diagrams 🤞)
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