This is part 2 in what appears to be a deep well of fraud underpinning the entire evidence-base for ivermectin and Covid-19. Part 1 is here.

Also, much of this is based on work by Dr. Kyle Sheldrick, whose blog on the matter you can read here.

Most research is OK — it has some virtues, some oversights, some charms, some flaws. Some is excellent and transformative, some is terrible and harmful. When I first became interested in ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication being tested for Covid-19, I expected a combo plate of the above — just like everything else.

Maybe…

Ivermectin is a horse dewormer and anti-parasitic medication that has been promoted across the world for the treatment of Covid-19. It has been in the news a lot recently because a large portion of the evidence base for the drug appears to have been based on fraudulent research, which, as scientific rigor goes, is usually considered to be a bit of an issue.

But we’ve held out hope that the drug works for Covid-19 because, despite the foundations of the research being cracked, there were still a number of positive trials, and some of them were really well done. …

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, people across the world have been thrown into a seesaw of restrictions and ongoing epidemics of the disease. We have all been faced, over and over again, with a terrible choice: do something, and potentially cause harm, or do nothing, and let the disease run riot.

It has been, as they say, quite a year.

As the world slowly limps forward from the battering of a global pandemic into a post-vaccine world, there’s a common, and very understandable question being asked across the globe. Why, if vaccines work, are we seeing more and more people getting sick after being immunized against Covid-19? Shouldn’t we all be protected now that we’ve been jabbed in the arm?

Note: after writing this article, but before publication, the paper in question was retracted by the preprint server it is hosted on “due to ethical concerns”. Also, because I know people will say silly things, I have never been paid by any pharmaceutical companies, hold no interests in drugs of any kind, and am funded entirely by the Australian state and federal governments, as well as a bit of money that I get from locking my stories on Medium for you all to read. …

Note: because I know people will say silly things, I have never been paid by any pharmaceutical companies, hold no interests in drugs of any kind, and am funded entirely by the Australian state and federal governments, as well as a bit of money that I get from locking my stories on Medium for you all to read.

Vaccines are always a contentious intervention, because they involve giving perfectly healthy people a medical intervention to prevent future disease. …

As a health/science blogger, one of the most common questions I’m asked by people is to do with coffee. People are constantly worried that their coffee intake is either too high, because coffee is apparently bad for your health, or too low, because it’s life-saving. Now, there’s a lot of literature out there on the health impacts of coffee, caffeine, and related drinks, and it’s hard to summarize everything in one article, but the research is relatively consistent — coffee is neither a wonderful cure for your ills nor a terrible poison that is killing you slowly.

Here’s my take…

Note: because I know people will say silly things, I have never been paid by any pharmaceutical companies, hold no interests in drugs of any kind, and am funded entirely by the Australian state and federal governments, as well as a bit of money that I get from locking my stories on Medium for you all to read. …