Mother Jones article: Desperate Patients Are Shelling Out Thousands for a Long Covid Cure. Is It for Real?

[dave30th]

I agree with @dave30th that the article would have benefited from including success stories.

To be clear, I was meaning claimed success stories--we have no idea that the treatment had any impact at all

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

That was what I meant too! I've added an edit to my earlier post to clarify.

 

[dave30th]

I've added an edit to my earlier post to clarify.

thanks!

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

but there is probably much in the cytokine evaluation that is a useful pointer.

Much of the science seems reasonable and it would be bad to lose those gains.

As we keep saying, we need these promising lines of enquiry to be properly evaluated.

I don't see the basis for these statements. Cytokine estimations are pretty useless in most clinical situations and I have not seen any reason to think they would be useful here.

This looks very much like re-inventing the wheel - with irrelevant tests and groundless treatments.

I don't have much time for claims of 'famous researcher who did ground-breaking work on HIV' either. For a time everyone without any original ideas went in to HIV research. Some were lucky enough to get given a meaningful project by a supervisor. There is a huge amount of hyped poor quality science around in immunology just as there is in psychiatry.

 

[Milo]

I don't have much time for claims of 'famous researcher who did ground-breaking work on HIV' either. For a time everyone without any original ideas went in to HIV research

Researchers go where the money is. HIV was flooded with money. That and cancer. Now research that is funded is COVID.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Researchers go where the money is. HIV was flooded with money. That and cancer. Now research that is funded is COVID.

Mediocre researchers do, certainly. Innovative researchers plough their own furrow.