This was Scott Alexander's hypothesis btw if you missed this piece on ivermectin from him: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-

This was Scott Alexander's hypothesis btw if you missed this piece on ivermectin from him: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t... "The Summary Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount (let’s say d > 0.3) in the absence of comorbid parasites: 85-90% confidence Parasitic worms are a significant confounder in some ivermectin studies, such that they made them get a positive result even when honest and methodologically sound: 50% confidence Fraud and data processing errors are of similar magnitude to p-hacking and methodological problems in explaining bad studies (95% confidence interval for fraud: between >1% and 5% as important as methodological problems; 95% confidence interval for data processing errors: between 5% and 100% as important) Probably “Trust Science” is not the right way to reach proponents of pseudoscientific medicine: ???% confidence"