My assertion was not that the editors and reviewers believe HCQ is efficacious, rather that they don’t opine that Raoult is saying nonsense.
I am skeptical about the high-quality evidence against Raoult’s protocol you are referring to here. For example, the RCT you linked to is about the effect of HCQ alone, which is not Raoult’s protocol, which is based on HCQ plus AZ. I also note that only 58% of participants in this study received SARS-CoV-2 testing, which the authors recognize as a limitation.