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Originally Posted by Moto-Mojo
But as a disclaimer, you probably shouldn’t take medical advice from some dude on a car forum. But hey, I do drive a Camaro!   |
Well it is a car forum after all - but hey, it’s been an interesting and maybe surprisingly civil discussion to me at least
One more interesting article and then I will (try to) shut up:
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Throughout the pandemic, the anti-parasite drug ivermectin has attracted much attention, particularly in Latin America, as a potential way to treat COVID-19. But scientists say that recent, shocking revelations of widespread flaws in the data of a preprint study reporting that the medication greatly reduces COVID-19 deaths dampens ivermectin’s promise — and highlights the challenges of investigating drug efficacy during a pandemic.
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The paper summarized the results of a clinical trial seeming to show that ivermectin can reduce COVID-19 death rates by more than 90%1 — among the largest studies of the drug’s ability to treat COVID-19 to date. But on 14 July, after internet sleuths raised concerns about plagiarism and data manipulation, the preprint server Research Square withdrew the paper because of “ethical concerns”.
Ahmed Elgazzar at Benha University in Egypt, who is one of the authors on the paper, told Nature he was not given a chance to defend his work before it was removed.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w
So…on one side you have “it’s been discredited” and on the other side you have “I never got the chance to respond to the criticisms”.
Enough agendas and bias to go around for all sides I am sure.