If there are serious problems with Ivermectin clinical trials, this kind of fraud would have more consequences for treating people with parasitic infections tha

If there are serious problems with Ivermectin clinical trials, this kind of fraud would have more consequences for treating people with parasitic infections than it does for whether it is used in some covid treatment protocols around the world. Between this Guardian article and the Nature article on the harassment of scientists, it sounds like a co-ordinated narrative shift to provoke public feelings of anxiety. Arguing about dumb things neutralizes people from engaging on the important ones, and co-ordinated histrionic appeals to safety are a standard playbook distraction. Surely this politically neutral civilian scientist was harassed by the unvaccinated, the kind of people who are why we also need to end online anonymity, as people with "civil liberties" objections are mostly a violent mob, and vaccine passports are really about protecting society from the violence of the uneducated./s If that bit of sarcasm seems uncharitable, it is for the sake of brevity. We're at the stage where mandates and resistance to them are colliding, and the tactics employed to push through policies that exploit the pandemic are going to include disingenuous agitprop in outlets like the Guardian, and apparently, Nature. The only effective response to that kind of bullshit is truth, and the most effective vessel for truth is humor because it's an honest signal.