Delta is getting more dangerous for vaccinated people, especially for those who took low efficacy vaccines like AZ and Sinovac. We'll know more once more people get infected lol.
If you suspected that miracle cures peddled by clowns do not really work, you'll be happy to know that the biggest Ivermectin study (Egypt) was discovered to be faked. Why some medical researchers think they could get away with this is baffling.
Edit: Another comment on this from a scientist, the conclusion is that science is not self-correcting quickly enough, therefore any new research loses some credibility even if reviewed by competent scientists. If they missed something obvious as this, what else are they missing.
If individual scientists can't or can't be assed to detect fraud, they need a science fraud police that would investigate important or suspicious studies and their methodology.
If you suspected that miracle cures peddled by clowns do not really work, you'll be happy to know that the biggest Ivermectin study (Egypt) was discovered to be faked. Why some medical researchers think they could get away with this is baffling.
Edit: Another comment on this from a scientist, the conclusion is that science is not self-correcting quickly enough, therefore any new research loses some credibility even if reviewed by competent scientists. If they missed something obvious as this, what else are they missing.
If individual scientists can't or can't be assed to detect fraud, they need a science fraud police that would investigate important or suspicious studies and their methodology.
The scientific enterprise likes to ride high on the idea that science is “self-correcting” — that faults, mistakes, and errors are found out through the process of science itself. But this wasn’t a mistake. Credentialed experts read this trial and rated it as having a LOW risk of bias. Not once, but over and over again. Doctors looked at it and saw a miracle cure despite the endless issues that the research has even at fact value.
I don’t know for sure that this study is fraudulent, and perhaps we never will. But we do know that no one should ever have used it as evidence for anything regardless. We will have to reckon with the fact that a truly woeful piece of research, which may turn out to be fraud, was put online and used to drive treatment to millions of people around the world.
And no one noticed until it was far, far too late.
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