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They are dancing around the fact that ivermectin is indeed a 3CL protease inhibitor, despite that the molecule is very different from the new anti-virals being
by bananabiscuit 5y ago
They are dancing around the fact that ivermectin is indeed a 3CL protease inhibitor, despite that the molecule is very different from the new anti-virals being developed, and despite that 3CL protease inhibition was not primarily what made ivermectin an anti parasitic.
That’s how you know these fact checks are bullshit propaganda. They obviously did their research, but they will discuss everything short of the thing that will actually give credence to the claim being fact checked.
It doesn’t matter that the primary mechanism of action of ivermectin is different from the thing that makes it anti-viral. It doesn’t matter that the molecule looks very different from the new antivirals. These are not important and are just distractions from one simple fact:
the new antivirals work by inhibiting 3CL protease, ivermectin inhibits 3CL protease too.
- unraveller 5y agoSo who subversive-checks the fact-checker publications? I hope no-one since the idea of an outsourced fact-checker is farcical and we shouldn't fall for any factception play. Just because they label themselves as meta-news fact-checkers doesn't mean we forget news includes meta news or that fact-checking is an act of bias-prone publication. The eternal problem of news is one of defining the level of controversy accurately, if we could do that there'd be no need for more than one news publication. And yet somehow no-one that benefits from constant fact-checker approval mentions that these fact-checkers act entirely like syndicated news publications with a lower word count (which doesn't make any claims of being a single-source-of-truth more valid). They are only blunting the minds of their audience by their omissions.