Guest of Anne Roumanoff's show "It feels good", doctor Marina Carrère d'Encausse recalled the skills of her colleague Didier Raoult.
But she was also surprised at the turn that her speech has taken since the start of the health crisis.
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"An absolutely remarkable professional".
This is how the doctor and writer Marina Carrère d'Encausse describes her colleague Didier Raoult.
However, she does not understand the position he has held since the start of the year on Covid-19 and hydroxychloroquine, as she explains at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.
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Studies not scientifically validated
Marina Carrère d'Encausse and Didier Raoult have never met, but the doctor had until then held her colleague in high regard.
"I have known him since, since the beginning of my medical studies," she explains.
"I have never seen him, but I know him professionally because he is someone who has published a lot and who is still very well known."
She is therefore all the more surprised by the media channel he has chosen.
"I do not know why, suddenly, it has moved away from its scientific rigor", asks the doctor.
"He is an extremely intelligent and rigorous man, I cannot understand how he went about talking about drugs whose studies were not scientifically validated. I do not understand."
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The doctor also recalls that this type of scientific work is the core activity of her colleague from Marseille.
"Didier Raoult still has a very important medical background. He is a man of studies, a man who spends his time doing scientific studies." I do not understand ", she insists.