Coffee as a Treatment for Covid-19
(How Bogus Research Gets Believed)

 

Note from Ray – How hasty research with shoddy methodology leads to misleading results: think hydroxychloroquine

From The Journal of Improbable Research:

Is coffee an effective medicine to deal with Covid-19? A large team of researchers in France and the UK explore whether that question—the question, not the coffee—is a good way to get people thinking about:

1. how difficult it can be to find an effective treatment for any problem, and
2. how easy it can be to produce unreliable, shoddy answers, and
3. how easy it can be to pay attention to unreliable, shoddy answers

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