Didier Raoult returned to the study published by The Lancet, which questions the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with Covid-19. For him, it was produced by “a team of Nickel-plated Feet”.
“The ‘Lancet gate’ is such a comical symptom that it looks like ‘The Nickel-plated Feet are doing science’,” immediately launched Professor Didier Raoult in a new video published on Tuesday. What he calls the “Lancet gate” is actually all the decisions that were made and the media excitement after the publication by the scientific journal The Lancet of an American study claiming that treatment with hydroxychloroquine could be dangerous for patients with the new coronavirus. A fervent defender of this drug, Professor Didier Raoult therefore took the floor to put the dots on the i’s, unpacking his scientific career to support his claims.
“I am a star of infectious diseases, I have a curriculum that makes almost everyone dream. I was the youngest president of the University of France, the youngest president of doctors, the most young of all the teachers of the exceptional class, the oldest professor in the highest grade of all this country in medicine, I had everything in my life. If you want, I am the elite “, he said quite naturally. But what poses a problem for others according to him is precisely that he (and his followers) is (in) t the elite in question. “There is a real hatred of the elites”, he affirms besides, referring to the History of France to support his statements and justify the fact that other experts do not think like him: “This country has crises, from time to time, in which he wants to behead his elite. During the Revolution, Lavoisier was beheaded. Inserm beheaded in 1980 the five most famous doctors in France. This country is like that, from time to time, he cuts off the heads of his best known and most representative elite. ” “So we must not reverse things, it is not the elite that is against me, it is the second knives that are against me”, he then summarizes.
If the use of chloroquine was quickly suspended in several countries (including France) and advised against by the WHO, Didier Raoult affirms that it is because there is no person able to read scientific articles correctly Ministry of Health and WHO. According to him, decisions were made in a hurry after the publication of the study by The Lancet, for lack of “stars” scientists capable of decrypting this kind of work. “I know a lot of editorial boards, and it’s not the stars who run this, but those who have not succeeded in the profession and, from time to time, they have spurts of hatred against scientific stars”, says it still facing the camera. “Once I heard someone from Nature group to say ‘Whether it’s a Nobel Prize winner or a stranger, we treat paper the same way’, it’s crazy, the credibility of the writer is essential, otherwise we edit the Nickel-plated Feet “, he ends in this video besides entitled “The Nickel-plated Feet do science”.
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