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Experimental and without data: medicine on social media is deceiving

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Today Covid-19, yesterday malaria with the failure of the anti-scientific therapy based on mercury

There are doctors, dentists, alternative therapists and various medical graduates who claim the right, indeed the duty, to administering drugs against dangerous pathogens, observing and monitoring patients closely, and then establishing case by case whether in one’s judgment (and that of the patient being treated) a therapy works. Even at the cost of producing recipes without even having seen a patient, and above all also at the cost of using remedies for which there is no evidence of benefits, but there is certainty of risks, they explain to people, generally on social media, that it is the doctor. the authority first in terms of therapeutic attempts, ignoring the fact that the Hippocratic oath which they say they are inspired by places the work of the doctor not only under the vigilance of his own conscience, but also under the scrutiny of science.

This is a trend that has existed for some time, and that only recently and only with difficulty has been counterbalanced by the growing application of the so-called “evidence-based medicine”, That is, from the introduction of the scientific method and statistics to inform the therapist’s action.

The damage that moving away from this method produces are well illustrated by what has happened in the past, and which we hope not to have to revise.

Let’s consider for example the malaria. Half of the world‘s inhabitants live in areas where malaria is endemic. According to the latest available data, referring to 2019, malaria infected 229 million people in one year, causing approximately 409,000 deaths. 94 percent of the cases and deaths pertain to Africa, and especially to children in the sub-Saharan area; in these regions, infections have an annual cycle, corresponding to the vector cycle, with a very pronounced peak in some months of the year. Since 2016, no more progress has been made in the health field: annual infections are stationary or increasing and drugs induce more and more resistance in the parasite responsible for the disease, plasmodium (well known is the case of hydroxychloroquine, which has selected resistant strains in most of the places where it was used).

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Until a century ago, the disease was also endemic in Italy, and annually caused a disproportionate number of sick people and deaths; not for nothing, the newborn fascist regime made the anti-malarial struggle and reclamation one of the main points of propaganda and demonstrative action. Since the most effective drug, namely quinine, was the monopoly of Holland at the time, and the hated multinationals of Big Pharma evidently even then were one of the favorite targets of the populist narrative, the health dictatorship – the real one, not the ridiculous one of those who opposes vaccines today – he decided to take a bold path, as befits the very fascist anti-science of the time. In 1925, two scoundrels with academic qualifications, Giacomo Peroni and Onofrio Cirillo, were authorized by Mussolini to directly try an alternative medicine treatment, namely the administration of mercury to fight malaria. Patience that there were no data, and contrary indications about the danger of the thing instead abounded; the important thing was to fight the sinister foreign multinationals, and to develop an autarkic therapy. So the two chose a group of about two thousand people engaged in reclamation in Tuscany and Puglia, divided them into two groups and treated one with intramuscular injections of mercury, while the second group was sent without quinine to work, to have an appropriate control. .

In 1925, two academically qualified scoundrels were authorized by Mussolini to try alternative medicine treatment. Today there are people who claim to have obtained results, but they do not show precise numbers or items that can be verified

The consequences can be imagined; yet, Peroni supported the effectiveness of the “cure”, even proposing to “mercurize” the entire Italian army. It was then that the “official medicine”, the hated “main stream science” intervened, in the forms of the Higher Institute of Health, which demonstrated how the subjects treated with mercury had obviously all become ill, and the treatment itself had not at all prevented malaria.

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Today there is no longer a need to force people; they are lured on the Internet, and recipes overflowing with drugs, supplements and vitamins are produced (just the one Big Pharma that is said to want to fight), because it must be shown that a “cure” that has already saved “thousands of patients” exists, and has been discovered by the genius on duty, who, instead of wasting time publishing, really takes care of patients. It is a seductive myth, as much as the one proposed to the Duce which caused the thousands of mercury intoxicated; his grip is based on ignorance of the reasons for formal experimentation, which would be a useless bureaucratic tinsel or a way to make a career in the academy, rather than a primary protection for people and the only yardstick to determine if a therapy works.

The incredible thing is that some advances for Covid-19 home therapy are documented, for example from the works of the group of prof. Remuzzi; but while the Mario Negri Institute conducts clinical trials, others, perhaps using Remuzzi’s own name, fill their heads with misconceptions and their mouths with words, and then fall victim to those who organize movements on social media and begin to provide dangerous recipes of combinations with no proven effects, except potentially toxic ones.

For Covid-19, as for malaria, research is proceeding, having produced both in the first and in the second case promising vaccines (for malaria still under investigation) and useful pharmacological therapies, even if they find limits of applicability and efficacy (in the case Covid-19) and pathogen resistance (in the case of malaria); However, nothing has been found on social media, with Whatsapp chats or by people who claim to have obtained results, but do not show precise numbers or elements that are subject to verification (because the patients’ stories are not).

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So: if you do not want to be a guinea pig, if you believe that the vaccine is experimental, if you think that everything is done to earn Big Pharma, why do you submit as willing guinea pigs to experimental treatments without data, often invented on the Internet by those who steal the your trust, treatments that furthermore remunerate Big Pharma much more than what science suggests, based on the administration of truckloads of different drugs and molecules that are much more expensive than a vaccine or well-calibrated treatments described by the Mario Negri Institute, without all the pharmaceutical junk your gurus add to it?

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