“ Pathetic, but not surprising given a small number of FReepers who resort to this tactic. ”
Not nearly as pathetic as when the usual suspects show up to tamp down any discussion or speculation about the dangers of the vaccines. They’re a much smaller number, but you can see them working overtime to support the narrative.
Hundreds of pro athletes falling dead? - Nothing to see here.
Story after story of children having heart attacks? - Nothing so see here.
Vaccinated people more susceptible to Omicron? - Nothing to see here.
Ivermectin saves lives? - Not enough studies to prove it
Literally dozens of studies prove it. - I don’t like those studies.
We are all aware who is pathetic.
If you are referring to the site https://ivmmeta.com/ several of those studies apparently utilized fraud.
An MD and another researcher went through all of the studies shown on that site as of ~11/15/21.
Their complete, detailed report is here:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted Their findings:
Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount (let’s say d > 0.3) in the absence of comorbid parasites: 85-90% confidence
Parasitic worms are a significant confounder in some ivermectin studies, such that they made them get a positive result even when honest and methodologically sound: 50% confidence
Fraud and data processing errors are of similar magnitude to p-hacking and methodological problems in explaining bad studies (95% confidence interval for fraud: between >1% and 5% as important as methodological problems; 95% confidence interval for data processing errors: between 5% and 100% as important)