OK, tell me about everything dodgy about Event 201.
The first mention of Event 201 I can find on the web is on August 21, 2019. This is important because it's not implausible that a lab leak could have happened before then.
Why was it named event 201? Ryan Morhard gives us the down-low.
Ryan Morhard was working for the US Government at HHS, then moved to working at WEF, and then, wait for it, moved to Ginkgo Bioworks, a Gates-funded startup that is a key supplier for Moderna.
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I'm not just being glib. Even if it is research by deeply conflicted people who are implicated in the original coverup or at least suppression of the lab leak hypothesis, and committed academic misconduct along the way, the findings should be examined.
I'll document this case of aggressive dishonesty from @AviBittMD as a reference for why I will no longer be engaging him in the future, as he's heavy on the insults and light on the substance.
So, he claims that my claim was false because remdesivir succeeded in a similar trial.
A 🧵 of cases where data has been withheld or updates suspended, explicitly because the Authorities did not want the Commoners to "misunderstand" and "misinterpret" it.
As usual, I'll start with the ones I know, and please respond with more cases you are aware of.
Let's do this slowly for the people in the back: @BretWeinstein was commenting on a piece by Scott Alexander which picked through many ivm RCTs and did a meta-analysis to show there is a very weak signal. Then he threw the worms hypothesis on top to explain the signal.
This is a huge shift in epistemic standards. We're going from published, most peer reviewed, randomized controlled trials, many of which have been pored over by opposing groups, and trying to explain them away with a hypothesis that existed as a set of tweets. Epistemic whiplash.
As for my position on Ιvermectin, it's been consistent since the summer. We don't know if it works or not because *appropriately sized studies with correct dosing and timing* aren't being done. But it's safe enough that it's not worth not giving.
You can see a prior review of the evidence I did a couple of months back here, showing that there is a clear, if uncertain, signal of efficacy. doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-o…
The real scandal is that the proper authorities don't seem interested in drugs like this, or even fluvoxamine, which has even stronger data.
Run a trial with the same parameters as Paxlovid or Molnupiravir. It can't be impossible, it's been already done for those medicines.
Briefly, an antiviral started avg 5.1 days after symptom onset, with a primary endpoint that is triggered 3.1 days after start of treatment, when treatment is for 5 days, will be almost impossible to show benefit.
The avg patient didn't even have time to complete the treatment.
In the case of Paxlovid, the average patient in this trial would not even have been eligible to receive Paxlovid, since they would have been deemed "too late". fda.gov/media/155050/d…