[exmadscientist]

"Relaxing the formalisms" is great!

"Tolerating scientific fraud" is not. This doctor has previously come very close to scientific fraud. That means that for us to trust him again, his work needs to be impeccable. It isn't.

This potential treatment is promising enough that it is worthy of study, and in lieu of better solutions, administering to patients. These are drugs that have a known safety record for human use. But if you stop and think this is any form of "cure", you are deceiving yourself and endangering lives. It's pretty clear that chloroquine/azithromycin probably doesn't make COVID-19 any worse (in general). But it's not clear yet that it's actually a good treatment, and if we stop the search now, that is to our own detriment.