Atheism,
censorship,
confirmation bias,
coronavirus,
COVID-19,
Donald Trump,
Evolution,
Evolution News,
human evolution,
Human Origins,
hydroxychloroquine,
Indiegogo,
James Todaro,
Latin America,
LinkedIn,
Macroevolution,
malaria,
materialism,
Medicine,
Michael Behe,
Microevolution,
Neurodynamics Flow,
origin of life,
Sapan Desai,
scientific culture,
Surgisphere,
The Guardian,
The Lancet,
The New England Journal of Medicine,
World Health Organization
If you’ve ever wondered how much of high-stakes science is politicized, reflecting the ideological views of the scientists involved despite all their insistences to the contrary, look no further than this. A blockbuster paper in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, reported increased mortality associated with the “controversial” malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, being tested for use against COVID-19. Why would a malaria drug, of a value that has yet to be determined, be controversial? You already know the answer: it’s because of the identity of the medicine’s biggest cheerleader. He Looked Them Up on LinkedIn In briefest terms, scientists drew on shady data from a previously obscure company, Surgisphere, operated by a skeleton crew with a questionable Internet profile. Having won the approval of the journal’s expert peer reviewers, they…