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#165 Skepticism ≠ Terrorism (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Why Did Aspirin Be Used to Treat the Spanish Flu?

The study that caused hydroxychloroquine to be dropped from the list of possible treatments had the dose turned up so high that in fact it did toxify people. This very safe drug was given in such high doses that it caused this effect, which raises some questions. Why would you have turned that dial all the way up? Yep. Yeah. And then there's another paper. That argues that aspirin, uh, widespread use of aspirin to treat Spanish flu was actually the cause of many of the deaths during the Spanish flu epidemic. Yes. So they basically got in both of these two papers that I've just said, site Starko 2009. Gosh, it's something we've

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