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Comment by jdoliner | Hacker News Reader

This site has a good summary of all the studies that have been done on HCQ treatment of Covid-19.

This is a collection of links with arbitrary ratings from anonymous authors. A propaganda piece. Here is a real meta-analysis.. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2980

What makes you say the ratings are arbitrary? Can you point to any of the papers in which the rating is out of sync with the conclusion of the linked paper?

No methodology, anonymous authors, no peer-reviewing, related to the account @covidanalysis, which is known to push pro-hcq propaganda.. Are you kidding? Why should we waste time with this propaganda piece while there are real scientific papers available? No methodology, anonymous authors, no peer-reviewing, related to the account @covidanalysis, which is known to push pro-hcq propaganda.. Are you kidding?

Some smart French guy debunked this site https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284493669895041024.html And c19trials, another disinformation piece from the same authors.. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291126570392924160.html

I'm not sure what you're saying. Every paper has named authors listed next to it. And it explicitly states which ones have been peer-reviewed and which haven't (most, but not all, have been). Clicking through gets you full papers in the medical journals they were published in which includes the methodology.

Please tell me who are the authors of the website you mentioned and tell me what is the methodology they used for selecting the studies and rating them.

I think that's a somewhat valid criticism. However, everything the site claims is something that you can verify for yourself by simply clicking the links they offer. This doesn't account for studies that should be in this list, but aren't. I'd be interested in hearing about which studies those are.

I think given that Doctors such as Simone Gold are being fired simply for stating that there's scientific evidence that HCQ can treat Covid-19 it's somewhat expected that sites such as this will be done anonymously.

Where was Simone Gold fired from? If you look at her LinkedIn profile she is working as a concierge physician for 9 years, she worked as a congressional fellow.. never worked as an emergency physician. Claiming to have been fired is part of her whistle-blower narrative.. https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-gold-md-jd-4636a87

Only a fool or someone just looking for confirmation would take an anonymous sham of meta-analysis seriously.

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