This is news from which he cannot recover: Didier Raoult does not appear in the 2021 ranking of the favorite personalities of the French, which appears each year in The JDD. And for him, there is no shadow of a doubt, he was deliberately dismissed by the newspaper.
Why, in this story, are we tempted to believe Professor Raoult? Well because, despite all the stories around hydroxychloroquine and Covid-19, he remains, whatever happens, a recognized microbiologist and infectiologist who has, in the past, published many works around complex research on viruses, bacteria and infectious diseases. This is called an argument from authority.
Finally, it turns out that the way in which this classification is done is a bit more complex than it seems. Because, contrary to what the Marseille infectious disease specialist asserts, his name was indeed proposed by The JDD to be among the favorite personalities of the French.
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