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To: i-node who wrote (161167)	4/23/2020 12:53:06 PM
From: Steve Lokness	5 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Brumar89 CentralParkRanger Ivan Inkling J_F_Shepard Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363419

What is your obsession with this drug! I don't know of a single person who has ever given it any thought - and I do know some people on the left. Your attempt to make it something political is not just stupid - it's sick! It is just simply a nothing burger until it gets some science behind it with this disease. They will look at it I promise - but in the mean time giving it any thought is a complete waste of your brain cells and from what I see you obviously don't have any to spare.

To: i-node who wrote (161167)	4/23/2020 3:05:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 363419

Yes, of course, most fields have anecdotal studies and they are key in medicine. While not being determinative, they can be a start. It is simply less formal and relies on anecdotal evidence. This may be just data collected from patient charts and informally summarized according to relaxed observational guidelines. A collection of anecdotes is not a study. That's why I poked fun at your term. Scattered observations that have been reported about hydroxychloroquine effects are anecdotal, not studies. They were so labeled and dismissed by Dr Fauci. What you describe, instead, are called epidemiological studies or observational studies. They are retrospective studies. Those are the kinds of studies that inform the government's nutrition recommendations, for example. (I have been a participant in one for decades.) They have their utility and their limitations. They are studies, not collections of anecdotes. A collection of anecdotes may lead to a study but are not a study. Despite your defense of your odd terminology, I assume that's what you meant.