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You're discussing incentives that maybe some major drug companies might have, but they aren't the only ones around. I guess, the more accurate position is that
by space_fountain 5y ago
You're discussing incentives that maybe some major drug companies might have, but they aren't the only ones around. I guess, the more accurate position is that there are strong upper bounds to how effective a secretly suppressed drug could be. Imagine that ivermectin just cured covid for a minute. The would be incredibly easy to prove in a study. I mean just observational studies would be glaringly obvious. What ambitious young scientist wouldn't want curing covid on their resume? So you have to believe, either the vast majority of scientists, the press, or government are complicit in this conspiracy and I don't see strong incentives for any of those groups.
- ralusek 5y agoWell that's the thing, is that there are literally millions of people in entire countries being prescribed it. India has dished out millions of doses for COVID, and there are many doctors and researchers completely convinced by clinical evidence. It's not as if there are no people picking up a signal, or that no studies are showing utility, it's that the available studies are methodologically questionable. But as you are aware, there are more formal studies taking place at the moment, and the official scientific consensus is that we don't yet know. Again, my argument against you was that you said that there was no motivation against it, and I said that wasn't true.