The truth on ivermectin
What is wrong with the scientific process that some want to bury all questions?
Many on the left (see e.g. Alex Berenson) want to immediately dismiss ivermectin having possibly efficacy against covid. Instead of keeping an open mind and letting the scientific process work, people want to shut it down, why?
The truth is quite easy: there been some studies showing ivermectin has efficacy (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221009887 “Treatment with Ivermectin Is Associated with Decreased Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: Analysis of a National Federated Database”) and some studies showing that it is not efficacious (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115869#full) . Anyone who tells you that it works or doesn’t work is lying. The truth is no one knows for sure and no one will know for quite a while. This goes for both proponents and opponents. Again though, why? Why has a pharmaceutical become anything more than something that might or might not help people? Why did some decide it should be a political football? Who gains by not having a potential treatment? Obviously mRNA shot proponents would, so the democrat party. But why would people like Alex Berenson not keep an open mind? Team reality means keeping oneself open for evidence either way. I admit I don’t know. I know people (even vaccinated Biden voters) who got their doctor to prescribe it for covid in January 2022. It should not be a political question, it should be a data driven, scientific question.
Remember that ivermectin has been used for many decades and is quite safe. So at worst it’s a placebo. Anyone who tells you otherwise that it is dangerous is lying to you.
The question should be: why are some people so intent on dismissing things that might not fit their narrative? Why write off a potential treatment? Why not keep an open mind? That is part of the scientific process.
The way we will know is, just as with the vaccines, you need large controlled well designed clinical trials that are long lasting and not shut down too quickly. For example, studies like this:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04885530
Those take time and will be done. There are positive and negative studies with preliminary results so the correct answer regarding whether ivermectin works is: we do not know yet. Anyone who says otherwise is not being honest, and providing misinformation or disinformation and their motives must be suspect. Ask them why?