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Submission + - Large Detroit study finds that Hydroxychloroquine lowers COVID-19 death rate (detroitnews.com)

Submitted by ilguido on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:44PM

ilguido writes: A study by the Henry Ford Health System shows the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helps lower the death rate of COVID-19 patients. Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group, commented: "the data here is clear that there was a benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients". The Detroit News reports that "many health care institutions, including the World Health Organization, suspended clinical trials of the drug touted by President Donald Trump after the faulty study was published in the British medical journal The Lancet on May 22". However "the WHO restarted the trials in June".

The paper has been published on the International Journal of Infectious Diseases: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ijidonline.com%2Fart...

Submission + - Controversy at CERN workshop on gender and high energy physics

Submitted by ilguido on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:40AM

ilguido writes: At a workshop organised by Cern, Prof Alessandro Strumia of Pisa University said that "physics was invented and built by men, it's not by invitation", BBC reported.

Strumia's presentation, that supports the idea that "physics is not sexist against women[...] however the truth does not matter, because it is part of a political battle coming from outside", already received a lot of criticism, with one female physicist defining Strumia's analysis as "simplistic, drawing on ideas that had long been discredited".

The battle about discrimination and reverse discrimination goes on, echoing what we already witnessed with the Damore's story.

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