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He's the same guy who endorsed the use of hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatment by falsely claiming that it was safe and the FDA had approved it, and at least one person died after following his advice, so no surprise at all. He says what at the moment brings more approval without any care of the consequences.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/03/23/man-dead-...

ps. to 45' fanboys: a nice side effect of facts is that they don't disappear along with the posts reporting them, so happy clicketyclicking; I've plenty of karma to burn and too much grey matter to give a damn about it.

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I don't think drinking fish tank cleaner constitutes following his advice.

More Darwinism at work than anything, but there was also some suspicion she murdered him.

I can't shake this feeling that, just like the lies we were told about masks in order to stop the public from gobbling them all up, like they did with toilet paper, we're being lied to the same way with HCQ in order to protect the supply for the non-peasant classes. On one side there is a shrill loud voice saying it's foolish to take it, it's less than useless, etc, and on the other side there are multiple studies showing it is/was useful if used in a particular way. I have little Karma to burn but do as you will.

I found a US patent that suggests HCQ can repair DNA damage from ionizing and non ionizing radiation. My hunch tells me that the government stockpiles it in case of an infrastructure attack uses cell towers to make people sick.

Pretty good reason to keep a stockpile of it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050014785A1/en

Not directly for sure, and as another HNer wrote there's some Darwin involved. I didn't know there had been an investigation for possible murder, so thanks to all HNers who pointed it out. It seems however from the latest articles I could find that the murder suspicion has been dismissed and the man death ruled as an accident. What however is strange is that the couple worked both at John Deere, and the man was an engineer with a high degree of education, which doesn't seem that compatible with the level of stupidity needed to drink a fish tank cleaner.

Unrelated, but looking around i found that the two once sued their employer for sex and age discrimination against the wife. https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20140721507

Hydroxychloroquine is safe.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/fsp/drugs/Hydroxyc...

> at least one person died after following his advice

Correction: at least one democrat donor murdered her husband and used that advice as an excuse [1].

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/homicide-cops-investigate-deat...

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