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So, we all chuckled at Jim Bakker selling his colloidal silver covid-19 cure.
But, dress it up as "science", and you've got yourself something....
Link to tweet
What I like about the "Quinine Cures Covid-19" thing is that it pretends that the information is somehow coming from the National Institutes of Health, because it links to an honest to goodness real NIH link.
And the reason for that is because the NIH, among other organizations, provides a gateway to a vast index of "things someone wrote somewhere". In other words, just because something that looks like a research paper can be found in the PubMed database, that doesn't make it true.
A completely unvetted, unverified, unduplicated, and since-uncommented-upon-in-the-literature "pre publication copy" of what purports to be a report of covid-19 treatment appeared in late February. The paper describes no methodology whatsoever. None of that, of course, matters.
What matters is that "Big Pharma" is, as usual, suppressing a cure, and "Mainstream Media" is helping them cover it up. Your only hope is to rely on the good intentions of strangers on Twitter to tell you the truth!
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)I hope he gets his a&& handed to him in court with his phony cure.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The State of NY sent him a letter.
The State of Missouri filed a civil suit to stop him.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,004 posts)reign in this country, unfortunately. My Facebook feed is filled constantly with snake-oil bullshit marketed as the real deal.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I don't do Facebook, so I am sometimes mystified by how bullshit seems to just start spontaneously gushing out of people. I guess that's it.
This quinine bullshit has been posted on DU a couple of times now. It's amazing.
Turin_C3PO
(14,004 posts)were fooled by the quinine thing because it appeared to come from a valid source. They didnt bother actually looking at the article and noticing that there was no methodology to the claims.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)As you are probably aware, any news outlet that has President Xi's picture on it:
...is every bit as reliable as President Xi himself.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Never drink the urine of other people because they may have used a
gas station bathroom. Oh, and pray hard, I mean really hard.
durablend
(7,460 posts)I think drinking bleach is more effective, especially if you hate vaccines and like going around with a red hat on your head.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I actually knew a guy who drank bleach to pass a drug test.
He was a laborer (hod carrier) on a job I did. I knew another
guy, a hoddie, who got tested while dirty and blew up the steel
mail box the lab used.
panader0
(25,816 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)They were going right out to buy bunches.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Hmm.
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)I was wondering what theyd come up with
Fucking elderberry and shit.