Didn’t get past, “my research team was analysing a new drug called ivermectin.” I’m not a believer in ivermectin, not non-believer either, but that’s just fact

Didn’t get past, “my research team was analysing a new drug called ivermectin.” I’m not a believer in ivermectin, not non-believer either, but that’s just factually incorrect. It’s not new, it’s been around for ages. The recent piece in the bbc which “debunked” ivermectin was also a lot of dishonesty and non-science. As someone who is inclined to think it’s efficacy as a Covid treatment is unproven, what am I to conclude from repeated attempts to dissuade the public and medical establishment from using it, when these attempts are dishonest and built upon lies or rhetorical trickery? The more lies I read which are aimed against ivermectin the more I think it must be effective or why would so many people be lying to say it’s not. It’s staggering they think the public are so stupid but maybe they’re right. Even Sam Harris, a pretty bright guy, got suckered in by the bbc piece. There was no underlying research, nothing published, not even a preprint. Just the words of a Twitter sleuth who is still in college, but bbc printed it and smart people like Sam Harris jumped on it because it fit their beliefs.