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by hprotagonist 2284 days ago
i'm with you, i want this to be onto something but i'm like, constitutionally ill equipped to reject the null on this evidence. Too much time in the lab during normal life, maybe. To your points:

- The twitter guy makes the peer review claim, and i think it's wrong. he is not an author of the paper or affiliated with them, he's just shilling it to elon musk for reasons.

- regionality isn't something i'd considered. I can understand the exclusion group being the control in exeptional cases, like a global pandemic.

- of more concern to me are the either confusing or cargo-culted figures at the end. what in the world is a t- and p value column doing next to age data? why are there nominal p-values per day of administration?

- there might not be coverage, but merck is shipping a boatload of the stuff anyway: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/bayer-preps-u-s-donation...

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