XPost: misc.news.internet.discuss   
   From: here@is.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:30:53 -0000 (UTC), danny burstein   
    wrote:   
      
   >That's a funny way of saying:   
   >   
   >"Ivermectin is a snake oil scam   
      
   Down under "Researchers" said it worked in a petri dish, which was   
   picked up via news media. .   
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   December 11, 2021   
      
   'Science is flawed': COVID-19, ivermectin, and beyond   
   ...   
   ...   
   In early 2020, people were desperate for any kind of treatment for   
   COVID-19. A melange of partial evidence emerged.   
      
   This included: a laboratory study showing that the drug acted as a   
   strong antiviral in a petri dish, a study in a French nursing home   
   where the residents took ivermectin to treat a scabies outbreak and   
   seemed to subsequently enjoy higher survival rates, and preprint   
   reporting that ivermectin reduced the mortality from COVID-19 by 90%.   
      
   All three were weak evidence in different ways. Single in vitro   
   studies are very poorly predictive of eventual clinical outcomes, and   
   the nursing home paper was an accidental and uncontrolled   
   observational study -- what if the residents had never been exposed to   
   SARS-CoV-2 in the first place?   
      
   The clinical study was entirely fabricated and later withdrawn from   
   the preprint server, subsequent to great scandal.   
      
   https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/science-is-flawed-covi   
   -19-ivermectin-and-beyond#How?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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