![]() These data detectives-in this case Jack Lawrence, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Nick Brown, Kyle Sheldrick, and James Heathers-have learned a hard lesson: the apparatus of scientific research is built on trust, which hinders the detection of fraud. The smell of fraud is hard to ignore when you have the nose for it. Data that looked to have been copied and pasted multiple times from one patient to the next. Hospitals that were claimed to have participated but which stated they had no record of the study. Rather, they were detected by volunteer scientists spending unpaid time to scrutinize data sets and pick up what would politely be called “inconsistencies.” Patients who had died before the trial to test ivermectin began. Those holes were not spotted by your typical train inspectors. Why? Why won’t the ivermectin train stop? Trust facilitates fraud Scientists and physicians have pointed out that it is falling apart, that it should stop for repair or even be retired. It was starting to look like the future.īut a year and a half later, this train, still ploughing ahead, is now riddled with holes. Study results trickled in backing up their real-life experiences. And the drug, according to those stunned doctors, seemed to be working. On the heels of ivermectin’s one-time win over the coronavirus in the laboratory, some critical care doctors started to administer it to hospitalized patients who were fighting against complications from COVID-19. And, yes, it comes in a horse paste for the treatment of livestock. Its discovery from soil bacteria and its application in medicine resulted in a Nobel Prize win, and it is listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organization. When taken by mouth, it treats infections caused by worms, like river blindness and strongyloidiasis. But underneath all of this modern baggage, ivermectin is simply a very useful drug. It is a quasi-religious shibboleth, a belief that identifies the tribe you belong to. ![]() This drug, ivermectin, has acquired political overtones in some circles. Ivermectin could stop the new coronavirus from making copies of itself. While the dose used was much higher than what doctors would prescribe, the results were promising. It started with a laboratory study on African green monkey kidney cells.
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