/oss/taxonomy/term/5287/all en /oss/article/covid-19-medical/potential-treatment-prevent-long-covid <hr /> <p><em>This article was originally posted in the</em> <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-a-potential-treatment-to-prevent-long-covid"><em>Montreal Gazette.</em></a></p> <hr /> <p>The cruelty of COVID is that many people recover only to be left with long-term symptoms. What we have taken to calling long COVID seems to affect about 10 per cent of people post infection. Symptoms tend to resolve slowly over months, if not years, but apart from suggesting patience there was not much medicine could offer. Until now.</p> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9543 at /oss /oss/article/critical-thinking/steve-kirsch-and-seduction-simplicity <p>A central lesson we scientists learn in university is that science is complicated. Experiments that should yield either result A or B show us C, instead. Individual studies are flawed, and our understanding of a problem is achieved by collating these puzzle pieces to the best of our ability and interpreting the emerging picture in a way that, we hope, minimizes our biases. It is tricky work, but you know what is easier?</p> <p>Oversimplifying.</p> Thu, 19 May 2022 19:39:38 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9115 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/science-vs-joe-rogan <p>“Lot of times, we’re drinking or we’re high, you know, and I say stupid shit.” Coming from a teenager,<a href="https://youtu.be/PloZ-GB9tzA?t=256"> </a><a href="https://youtu.be/PloZ-GB9tzA?t=256">this statement</a> may invoke memories of your own adolescence. But carried by the voice of then-53-year-old Joe Rogan defending his off-the-cuff, on-the-air remarks about COVID vaccines in young adults, it reeks of arrested development.</p> Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8927 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19/ivermectin-train-cannot-stop <p>It started with<a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0166354220302011"> </a><a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0166354220302011">a laboratory study</a> on African green monkey kidney cells. While the dose used was much higher than what doctors would prescribe, the results were promising. Ivermectin could stop the new coronavirus from making copies of itself.</p> Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8911 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking/ivermectin-convalescent-plasma-and-hydroxychloroquine-one-year-rotten-apples <p>It has been a little over a year since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Medical scientists quickly started testing a barrage of potential therapies against the disease, which gave hope that new treatments might quickly be identified.</p> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8658 at /oss