In a video on twitter on Tuesday night, the specialist in infectious diseases at Marseille university hospital declared that the virus is “gradually disappearing” in the city. “There is a very ...

Didier Raoult’s a climate denier and was a coronavirus truther. That hasn’t stopped the White House from embracing his sketchy studies into an anti-malaria drug to treat COVID-19. World News Editor ...

On 24 March, Professor Didier Raoult slammed the door on the circle of researchers who were supposed to advise the French president on the pandemic. Disagreeing with the containment policy adopted by ...

President Donald Trump’s daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic has been compared to many things: state propaganda, daily talk show, three-ring circus. It is somehow all of these things, but ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. France’s Paris Match magazine usually reserves its glossy covers for rock stars, actors, and royalty. Last week ...

Two weeks ago, I interviewed outspoken French infectious disease specialist Dr. Didier Raoult, who had just released hastily gathered data on a small group of patients treated for COVID-19 in his ...

Didier Raoult has touted many dubious treatments but is a hero in France’s second city, which has long railed against Paris The people of Provence in the south of France have a word for a particularly ...

PARIS — Sitting behind his desk in a hospital in the southern French city of Marseille, Didier Raoult has convinced thousands, including the U.S. president, that a common antimalarial drug can save ...

French microbiologist Dr. Didier Raoult, who published a now-discredited paper in March 2020 claiming that hydroxychloroquine was effective at treating COVID-19, has threatened legal action against ...

Dr. Derek Lowe, arguably the finest and most influential chemistry blogger in the universe, has put together an excellent summary of the complex and confusing clinical data of hydroxychloroquine, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a golden opportunity for quackery and conspiracy theories, such as the willful misinterpretation of a study in order to claim that the influenza vaccine makes people ...