Here's a wild fact - both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, the two biggest "alternative" treatments of the pandemic, appear to have started out as fraud
The French government just acknowledged that the original HCQ paper that started the worldwide rush on the drug - cited >5,500 times! - was manipulated to show a benefit
https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1567271178607423490?s=20&t=VAe9dhPUspDJuBrSoQiIaQ
One of the main reasons for ivermectin's popularity was the Surgisphere debacle in 2020, where a non-existent database was used to create a study showing massive benefits for the drug the-scientist.com/news-opinion/s…
Ivermectin has so far not proven particularly harmful, even in higher doses, but there is some evidence that HCQ increases the risk of death from COVID-19 for people who take it, which could potentially have killed quite a few people nature.com/articles/s4146…
But even if not directly harmful, the staggering economic cost of investigating these two medications, not to mention the vast sums people have spent buying up every pill for two years is a wild missed opportunity
When people ask what the costs of scientific fraud are, these are two pretty massive examples of the snowball effect that bad/falsified studies can have
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