On the other side, though, there was a huge financial incentive to discredit ivermectin. If it turned out that ivermectin was effective at treating covid, the

On the other side, though, there was a huge financial incentive to discredit ivermectin. If it turned out that ivermectin was effective at treating covid, the emergency authorization would no longer hold, and it would have ended the extremely lucrative business of covid vaccines. There was incentive to design studies that, on purpose, applied ivermectin incorrectly (not the right time, not the right dosage). In the media, ivermectin was described as horse dewormer, a fake story about hospitals being overwhelmed by people overdosing ivermectin was repeated for weeks in mainstream media, even though before covid, it was considered a low risk medication, and was described as a wonder drug. I'm not implying ivermectin successfully treated covid, mind you. I'm just saying that it's hard to trust the people that were saying it doesn't and, going further, they said it was a silly dangerous idea to even try using it for treating covid under medical supervision. With that in mind, I can see how some people could come to the conclusion that, if big pharma and its lackeys in media and government want to discredit it so hard, it might even work.