In the seemingly endless online discussion about ivermectin, a repurposed anti-parasitic medication that is proposed as a treatment for Covid-19, people have started passionately arguing about Japan. At first, this may seem like something of a non-sequitur, because Japan, like many other nations, has never actually approved ivermectin as a…
If you’ve been reading the diet news recently, you’ll have seen a huge amount of hubbub over intermittent fasting (IF), the dietary regimen where, shockingly, you eat less food.
Every few months we see the same headline come around. There are variations — themes on the original, slight divergences from the main idea — but the essential story sounds the same. The media reports that “Moderate drinking will save your life!”.
And, of course, because we all love a…
Vitamin D is pretty contentious. If you’ve ever written about the glorious sun vitamin before, you’ll know that people are strangely passionate about it to an extent that you’ll rarely see in any arena other than sports. …
This is part 5 in what appears to be a deep well of research issues underpinning the entire evidence-base for ivermectin and Covid-19. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here.
This part talks about a study that has also been investigated…
This is part 4 in what appears to be a deep well of research issues underpinning the entire evidence-base for ivermectin and Covid-19. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. The study discussed here is also referenced in a BBC investigation.
When I started looking…
Throughout the pandemic, one of the hardest things to pin down has been the death rate of Covid-19. It seems simple — you just take your number of deaths and divide by cases — but in practice, we know that there are many people who are asymptomatic and will never…
Note: this article is about a paper that colleagues and I recently published in Nature Medicine. You can find the scientific paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01535-y
As you’ll no doubt have noticed if you’ve been following me for the last few months, there’s a big problem in the scientific literature. After a…
This is part 3 in what appears to be a deep well of research issues underpinning the entire evidence-base for ivermectin and Covid-19. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
Shortly before publication, the journal that published the study in question retracted the paper to correct it. It was…
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…
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