This was originally published here, in French (link).
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The anti-Quatuor, episode 1
By Charles-Edouard!
I know neither the person nor his intellectual path, so I won't criticize too much. The little I have read of him has left me indifferent, at most. He is one of the pro-treatment, stipendiary activists, who, by dint of their efforts, acquire a semblance of knowledge, which one would be wrong to take for insight. Seeing him dumbfounded, like so many others, in front of the START trial without being able to dismantle its traps was enough to make me distrust him. On the other hand, it would be useful to explain the 4/7 to him.
Even a very well-informed scientist can be taken in by the apparent solidity of a clinical trial (e.g. Dr Dupagne and Levothyrox): the devil is in the details and to sniff out the methodological error is not within the reach of anyone, including the best (de)trained by the University.
With all due respect, I deny to my acquaintances, including those with a solid scientific background, the capacity to be able, on simple examination, without debate, to flush out the traps of interpretation. Being an activist does not seem to require more qualifications than being an apprentice hairdresser or an enarque.
The judgement may seem harsh, but I apply it to myself, for having let myself be deceived for a long time, to which stipendiary activists will have valiantly contributed. So... Too little for me. Thanks anyway!
Quartet from scientific success to media flop
Right from the start, the way Truchis et al. go about their work is marked by this infamy, for they have to argue, without denying what they have not been able to say, even before having taken the time to analyze the failures. Analysis, which, for us, explorers of pharmaceutical remission, still counts for something!
Poor Dr. Roland Landman stated that:
It seems that the Durban fiasco (ANRS-4D) was not enough for them!
Quartet... An attempt to convince... The Americans!
The practice of 4/7 spreads throughout France, good or bad... Pr Jean-François Delfraissy, infectiologist (at minute 3:12 of the original source, alternatively the true verbatim here) on the results that we are going to produce
Obviously, spending French taxpayers' money for the sole benefit, quite hypothetical, of convincing ignoramuses, and holding back the beneficial advent of a French invention for the French patient, is perplexing... The trap closes on poor Roland, who obviously does not have much to lose: the treatment is still ungrateful for his valiant scientists who succeeded, after all, in validating a procedure that was already authorized! We will always be surprised by the clever opportunism of Morlat who cut the ground from under the ANRS's feet, by recommending 4/7 even before Quatuor!
Quatuor in the international 'press
Here is what I could find... If you find others, don't hesitate to report it:
| Website | link | Comments |
| IAS-2019 | link | the original source |
| TheBodyPro | link | You can't be more succinct |
| i-base | link | ignorance in the service of Big-Pharma |
| aidsmap | link | chip/paste |
| MedPageToday | link | The voice of his master (ViiV, here) |
| eatg | link | (broken?) 404 error |
| corevih-bretagne | link | Arvieux: Snipe on the go and provincial oxymoron |
From reading the article here, it sounds like there was a press conference specific to Quartet? I don't know if there was, but then, the 'press' didn't rush to the progress made on the road to remission. They need something more spectacular! Blood, blood!!!
And at ICCARRE? Not a word...
Snipe on the go and provincial oxymoron
Let's have a little one for the road: the oxymoronic Arvieux doesn't hesitate to write: and, a little further on:
In other words, in the same piece to say that we have a tradition, ten years old, established, with proven effectiveness, but besides this Quartet(futile, let's not doubt it), that it (you) will still need results in the longer term... When it comes to napalizing the whole world with dolutegravir, we don't take so many precautions!
Well, we'll see the other fools another time... Until then, try to imagine what effect a negative result of Quatuor would have had (on you, in particular, and on medicine, in general). Assume that the 4/7 would have been, say, 15% lower... Think about that... Would that have changed our perspective? Hi, hi, hi... Think about it!
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