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> If you want a meta-analysis that concludes ivermectin is worthless, based upon a different weighting of the same studies, here you go: There's a critique of
by shaicoleman 5y ago
> If you want a meta-analysis that concludes ivermectin is worthless, based upon a different weighting of the same studies, here you go:
There's a critique of the above meta-analysis here, I wouldn't be surprised if it would be retracted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/comments/od6he6/another_critique_of_the_shoddy_roman_et_al/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/comments/od6he6/another_...
That meta-analysis also includes the flawed López-Medina RCT:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27564574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27564574
> There are now two large-scale studies being conducted by real research groups. Happy to bet money that ivermectin will have no real impact on case mortality.
It's highly likely that the Oxford PRINCIPLE trial will fail, because it's designed to fail.
* Recruiting people up to 14 days after symptoms, when highest viral load is 2-3 days afterwards, and Ivermectin is most effective when treated on first symptoms.
* No exclusion of vaccinated and those who already had the disease beforehand.
* Treatment only for 3 days.
* Lower than ideal dosage.
Just because it's a large RCT, doesn't automatically make it a high quality study.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4aotN326r4mPB9LDs46HI0e4GIlG9Vx/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4aotN326r4mPB9LDs46HI0e4GI...
- evgen 5y agoNo, I will be surprised if the critique is retracted. The pro-invermectin tribe have gone all-in on this particular lie and no amount of science is going to change their minds. You are wrong. The invermectin-pushers are wrong. In a few months we will have you continuing to try to work the refs when study after study shows it has no significant effect, and by this time next year it will join hydroxychlroquine in the list of failed treatments pushed by politically-motivated actors.