How to know what’s phony, and what is less phony?
Sounds like the “media” also.
Data can and will be fudged. Results can be believed.
“Data can and will be fudged. Results can be believed.”
Well, that’s the problem right there, restated.
It would be great if there was a cheap, widely available, safe drug that could be repurposed against the CCP flu. It looked good enough that last year, about this time of year, I got a scrip for a couple of boxes of the human version against the possibility of getting a bad case of the coof. It’s safe, for sure, and it’s more than a little suspicious that most of the efforts laid to study efficacy have had to be conducted by self-funded physicians in poor countries, but that’s a far cry from knowing that it has the effect we had all hoped it would a year ago.
That said, in defense of ivm, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.