Didier Raoult has complained about the “dictatorship of the methodologists” who insist on randomization and control groups in clinical trials.
By Yves SciamaScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The highly politicized debate about the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two antimalarial drugs, to treat COVID-19 has reached an extreme in France, where two small trials purporting to show potential benefit were done.
French physicians have come under enormous pressure from desperate patients to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, despite scant evidence that it works, and 460,000 people have already signed a petition to make it more widely available.