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SHITLER likes his military "central casting" but his bonespurs & hydroxy- "eccentric"
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/didier-raoult-is-the-bs-artist-behind-trumps-miracle-drug?ref=home
Meet the B.S. Artist Behind Trump’s Miracle Drug
Didier Raoult’s a climate denier and was a coronavirus truther. That hasn’t stopped the White House from embracing his sketchy studies into an anti-malaria drug to treat COVID-19.
Didier Raoult’s a climate denier and was a coronavirus truther. That hasn’t stopped the White House from embracing his sketchy studies into an anti-malaria drug to treat COVID-19.
PARIS—Brace yourself for a new wave of hydroxychloroquine hype.
The eccentric French researcher whose findings have captured the imagination of Donald Trump and the airtime of enthusiastic Fox News pundits has just published new findings clearly intended to answer his critics. ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Raoult
Didier Raoult
(born March 13, 1952 in Dakar, Senegal in French West Africa)[1] is a French physician and microbiologist. He holds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees and specializes in infectious diseases. In 1984, Raoult created the Rickettsia Unit at Aix-Marseille University (AMU). He also teaches infectious diseases in the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University, and since 1982 has supervised many M.D. and Ph.D. degrees.[2]
Since 2008, Raoult has been the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE; in English, Research Unit in Infectious and Tropical Emergent Diseases), collaborating with CNRS (National Center for the Scientific Research), IRD (Research for the Development Institute), INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and the Aix Marseille University, in Marseille. His laboratory employs more than 200 people, including 86 researchers who publish between 250 and 350 papers per year and have produced more than 50 patents.[3] Raoult has also been involved in the creation of eight startups.[4] ....
Ban from publishing in the American Society for Microbiology
In 2006, Raoult and four other co-authors were banned for one year from publishing in the journals of the American Society for Microbiology, after a reviewer for Infection and Immunity discovered that two images in a figure from the revised manuscript of a paper about mouse modelling for typhus were identical to figures from the originally submitted manuscript, even though they were supposed to represent a different experiment. In response "he resigned from the editorial board of two other ASM journals, canceled his membership in the American Academy of Microbiology, ASM’s honorific leadership group, and banned his lab from submitting to ASM journals"[76] In response to an article in Science covering the story in 2012 he stated that " I did not manage the paper and did not even check the last version", and stated that he found it "interesting" that the author worked for Danone, as he had recently published papers on the role of probiotics on obeisity, stating that this had "led to bad press for Danone and forced them to review their marketing strategy" the author subsequently clarified that they had worked for Danone nine years earlier, and had no contact since.[77] The paper was subsequently published in a different journal.[78]
Climate change
In October 2013, Raoult published an article in the French magazine Le Point in which he expressed his scepticism about mathematical models for climate prediction.[79] He said in particular that mathematical models are the modern version of divination. In an article dated 1 November 2014,[80] he ironically notes, in reference to the "pause" in global warming since the late 1990s, that "nature has forgotten to obey predictions". In the same publication, in reference to an article published shortly before in the journal Nature, according to which the Earth's global temperature is no longer a good indicator of global warming, he commented: "It's better to break the thermometer that contradicts you!"
In Le Point, in June 2014, he estimates that "after a significant thermal surge in the 1990s, the Earth has generally stopped warming since 1998". He concludes that "global warming is uncertain and human responsibility is questionable".[citation needed]
COVID-19
See also: 2020 coronavirus pandemic in France
On 17 March 2020, Raoult announced that a trial involving 36 patients from the south east of France supported the claim that Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin were effective in treating for COVID-19.[81][82][83] The French Health Minister, Olivier Véran, was reported as announcing that "new tests will now go ahead in order to evaluate the results by Professor Raoult, in an attempt to independently replicate the trials and ensure the findings are scientifically robust enough, before any possible decision might be made to roll any treatment out to the wider public".[84] In direct reference to the study conducted by Raoult and the possible health ramifications, Véran went on to state: "Dr. Raoult’s study involves 24 people. What kind of health minister would I be if, on the basis of a single study conducted on 24 people, I told French people to take a medicine that could lead to cardiac complications in some people?"[85] The French media also reported that the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi had offered French authorities millions of doses of the drug for use against COVID-19.[86][87][84] ....
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