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Since you did your own meta study which took a lot of time, could you go ahead and link it here for us?
Many of the ivermectin believers have done or contributed to their own meta-study with extensive and totally transparent results and discussion. Apparently, you classify this group as "intellectually lazy" who "don't take the time to verify [their] own opinions," which is beyond ridiculous.
You're wrong about ivermectin, but that's fine. You may find their work unconvincing and that's fine, too, but this is just ridiculous.
Scott Alexander's comments on every topic on Covid, including ivermectin, during the hysteria were wrong and he was corrected at the time. The people he relied on like healthnerd, sheldrick, the fraud squad, gidmk, were wrong too and were corrected at the time, too. AlexandrosM did like a 15 part series carefully explaining their flaws and bad arguments. Despite all of Scott&Co's copes about why they were wrong about the most important thing in their alleged fields of study in likely their entire lives, this should fall on deaf ears (and do) to all but those who were also wrong and want to join in on the excuses.
These people were wrong when it mattered, there were plenty of reasons which were pointed out to them why they were wrong, and yet they persisted and only relented when it was safe to do so. They regularly attacked and threatened the people who were right the entire time to boot. It was reprehensible behavior and they should never be allowed to forget it.
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