New Scientist link.
It seems the media is becoming succesful in its battle to discredit science.
BMJ criticisms of Tamiflu questioned
Governments have been stockpiling the antiviral drug oseltamivir as a defence against pandemic flu. Now the medical journal BMJ has claimed there is insufficient evidence that the drug prevents serious complications of flu to warrant the policy.
"Although billions have been spent on oseltamivir in the face of pandemic influenza," the journal states, investigators "found that the public evidence base for this global public health drug was fragmented and inconsistent".
But the doubts that BMJ casts over Tamiflu do not relate to the jobs it is meant to do in the pandemics for which it has been stockpiled. For these jobs, it is vital.
Governments have been stockpiling the antiviral drug oseltamivir as a defence against pandemic flu. Now the medical journal BMJ has claimed there is insufficient evidence that the drug prevents serious complications of flu to warrant the policy.
"Although billions have been spent on oseltamivir in the face of pandemic influenza," the journal states, investigators "found that the public evidence base for this global public health drug was fragmented and inconsistent".
But the doubts that BMJ casts over Tamiflu do not relate to the jobs it is meant to do in the pandemics for which it has been stockpiled. For these jobs, it is vital.
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