Study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn
There were at least a dozen stories on this stuff that made the frontpage: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ivermectin, including such gems as “wonder drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27778458) and “No bigger story in the world: why are journalists not covering Ivermectin” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329461). The comments on the top story, getting 300+ votes, are also a sight to behold: ‘I truly hope in the coming years the censorship of this topic will be the catalyst for allowing free speech to prevail on social media.“ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562412). Also: “Please do not spread fake news. All current vaccines are less than 1% effective.”
Let’s see if the people who read those stories get a chance to see the correction, as well.
Why not DYOR instead of getting your beliefs from a biased system?
existed long enough to add more fud to the conspiracy mongers
> “Thousands of highly educated scientists, doctors, pharmacists, and at least four major medicines regulators missed a fraud so apparent that it might as well have come with a flashing neon sign. That this all happened amid an ongoing global health crisis of epic proportions is all the more terrifying.”
It's strange to call "the right-wing" into question for their assertions when this claim calls the entire establishment into question.
>It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,” Lawrence said.
Looks more like Engrish to me. The study was based in Egypt. I would assume that this is just a poor translation. Hanlon's razor in effect.