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Trump plans to bypass legitimate medical research by hyping yet another magic website NewsColony Campaign Action The Trump obsession with  chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine is being driven in part by television doctors like David Agus, Marc Siegel, and Mehmet Oz, so you know it must be a great thing. The plan appears to be to entirely bypass the process of randomized studies to find out if the drugs actually work on COVID-19 and instead go with scattershot self-reporting by doctors—a process that threatens to leave out bad results rather than rigorously following every time the drugs are administered. Trump has already pressured the FDA to promote the drugs, and FDA officials have had to work to keep Trump from overhyping the possible treatment too much, including publicly walking back Trump’s misleading statements. Often you’ll hear that  hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin work together well—but the study that claim comes from had only 26 peop...