Not hearing back is not the equivalent of being ignored. I got as far as the 1st few paragraphs, then checking Pavlovic's credentials. I decided I'd read it. Then completely forgot about it. We have to check our American tendencies. "I want it all! I want it NOW!" 8^D I'll respond after I've read it, *if* and only if I have something that might be interesting to say.
On 5/6/21 10:32 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Dear Phellow Phriammers, > > > > I have noted that most of what I have written here of late has been ignored, > and that’s ok, actually. Usually, it is the possibility that you MIGHT read > what I write that keeps me writing and, behaviorist to the last, writing is > what I need to do in order to think. > > > > But this situation is different. I really don’t know what to think about > Pavlovic’s <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dragan-Pavlovic-4> paper. > There may have been some trouble with the cloud version, so I have attached > it to this message. > > > > So, this is a case where I really need some help. I realize that you are all > engaged in this excellent correspondence about UBI, which has revealed all > sorts of “-ists” that I never thought were alive and well in the world, let > alone in this group. I would not interfere with that for a second. But, > could a few of you take a look at his paper > <https://1drv.ms/w/s!AptIKbsAd7gjllccpq9yXXQ4hb2N?e=HCzjaV> (very short, a > commentary, actually). I think he is actually a candidate for this group. > He is an MD, Phd, anaesthesiologist, retired in Paris, who has participated > in hundreds of scientific papers, who is passionate ( I worry, perhaps > sometimes a bit too passionate) about dozens of different things and > suspicious of everything. He wants, for instance, to dig a gigantic tunnel to > bring large ships directly from the danube to the Mediterranean. > > > > I, of course, live in a bubble, but I don’t like to have that fact thrust in > my face as powerfully as when he reveals to me that the two HAAA=VUD papers > denouncing Chloquoroquine were retracted a year ago, and I never found out. > I can’t get any sense of whether there has been any attempt to revive them or > to redo the original clinical study that suggested HCQ’s efficacy against > CoVid. > > > > Any little bit of help you could give me would be great. > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 5, 2021 9:48 PM > *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]> > *Cc:* 'Prof David West' <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Covid-Lancet-PART-2 (002).doc > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > I attach a paper <https://1drv.ms/w/s!AptIKbsAd7gjllccpq9yXXQ4hb2N?e=HCzjaV> > written by an internet acquaintance I made some years back, Dragan Pavlovic. > I am sending it along for two reasons. First, it reveals (to me, at least) > that the two negative studies on Hydroxychloroquine use in SARS-CoVid-19 > treatment were based on unverified data and were withdrawn by their authors > almost immediately. (Have the rest of you known this for the last year and > not told me? I cannot believe, after we pilloried poor Dave for advocating > for it, that he has not gloated about it. ) Second, Pavlovic raises the > intension/extension distinction in the context of the interpretation of > scientific results and also questions Randomized Control Trials as the "Gold > Standard" for discovery. Thus, I think he is a kindred spirit, being a bit of > a grumpy contrarian like many of us here. I have promised to forward any > comments you make to him, so be polite but speak truth. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
