This article has nothing to do with rehabilitating ivermectin. I myself am not sure how well it works today and if I had to guess, it worked a lot better for pre-Omicron variants. Naturally recent data is a mess, so it's hard to know, and I really should do some digging before I say much more because I could be very wrong. On whatever the "red tribe" is - I frequently tweet out about how I could never support a president who allowed Fauci to run the pandemic. As recent immigrant to the US, I have very little interest in whatever partisan bickering y'all are engaged in, other than that I'd prefer if the country my children were born in doesn't implode.
Rehabilitating the rationalist community (the actual intent of the essay) would benefit everyone a great deal. Ivermectin is the perfect case-study of why the rehabilitation is needed.
Once again, the article has nothing to do with defending ivermectin, and everything to do with defeating bad arguments. If you are interested in some material on mechanism of action, my friend Joomi has written a pretty good piece - https://joomi.substack.com/p/misconceptions-about-ivermectin-dosing
There are many drugs we don't understand the mechanisms of, and I can personally confirm that some of these definitely work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_action#Drugs_with_unknown_MOA . In fact, as you can read in Joomi's article, ivermectin's anti-parasitic action also is somewhat mysterious, but nobody doubts it works.
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This article has nothing to do with rehabilitating ivermectin. I myself am not sure how well it works today and if I had to guess, it worked a lot better for pre-Omicron variants. Naturally recent data is a mess, so it's hard to know, and I really should do some digging before I say much more because I could be very wrong. On whatever the "red tribe" is - I frequently tweet out about how I could never support a president who allowed Fauci to run the pandemic. As recent immigrant to the US, I have very little interest in whatever partisan bickering y'all are engaged in, other than that I'd prefer if the country my children were born in doesn't implode.
Rehabilitating the rationalist community (the actual intent of the essay) would benefit everyone a great deal. Ivermectin is the perfect case-study of why the rehabilitation is needed.
Once again, the article has nothing to do with defending ivermectin, and everything to do with defeating bad arguments. If you are interested in some material on mechanism of action, my friend Joomi has written a pretty good piece - https://joomi.substack.com/p/misconceptions-about-ivermectin-dosing
There are many drugs we don't understand the mechanisms of, and I can personally confirm that some of these definitely work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_action#Drugs_with_unknown_MOA . In fact, as you can read in Joomi's article, ivermectin's anti-parasitic action also is somewhat mysterious, but nobody doubts it works.
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