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Here is why this is a conspiracy theory and likely complete bull: there are 190 somthing countries in the world. Many of them have public health systems with so

Here is why this is a conspiracy theory and likely complete bull: there are 190 somthing countries in the world. Many of them have public health systems with socialized healthcare. Many of them are completely free of influence from Merck or the FDA. Ivermectin is cheap and widely available. There is no way Merck and the FDA could suppress a global consensus if the drug was strongly effective. Conspiracy thinking often relies on a simplified model of the world, one in which other countries, other governments, and other healthcare systems simply do not exist. One where a single centralized entity could have ironclad control over a messy, complex and heterogeneous world. If you are engaging in these patterns of thinking, I recommend you step back, get out of your bubble and your normal context, diversify your information diet and try to ask more pointed questions of the viewpoints you are taking in. And please stop wiggling your eyebrows at us.

barbazoo 5y ago
> If you are engaging in these patterns of thinking, I recommend you step back, get out of your bubble and your normal context, diversify your information diet and try to ask more pointed questions of the viewpoints you are taking in. And please stop wiggling your eyebrows at us. I am not. I clearly pointed out that I think this is a conspiracy theory. However I should still be allowed to ask questions that help me point people that believe in these conspiracy theories into the right direction. That doesn't make me a conspiracy theorist.
- dougmwne 5y ago
  > If not, could there be some truth to the allegations that Merck somehow is stalling the Ivermectin studies? You are holding this conspiracy theory up as something that should be discussed and considered as possible truth. You didn't say you believed it, only that it was worth our attention.

barbazoo 5y ago

> If you are engaging in these patterns of thinking, I recommend you step back, get out of your bubble and your normal context, diversify your information diet and try to ask more pointed questions of the viewpoints you are taking in. And please stop wiggling your eyebrows at us. I am not. I clearly pointed out that I think this is a conspiracy theory. However I should still be allowed to ask questions that help me point people that believe in these conspiracy theories into the right direction. That doesn't make me a conspiracy theorist.

dougmwne 5y ago
> If not, could there be some truth to the allegations that Merck somehow is stalling the Ivermectin studies? You are holding this conspiracy theory up as something that should be discussed and considered as possible truth. You didn't say you believed it, only that it was worth our attention.