““A narrative started to develop online… that authorities were suppressing the good news about ivermectin in order to line their own pockets and those of the execs at Big Pharma…
The truth is that while excitement for ivermectin mounted online, it crashed quite quickly in scientific circles. Most randomized trials showed no effect of the drug. A couple of larger trials which seemed to show dramatic effects were subsequently shown to be fraudulent.
Then the TOGETHER trial was published. The 1400-patient study from Brazil, which treated outpatients with COVID-19, found no significant difference in hospitalization or ER visits — the primary outcome — between those randomized to ivermectin vs placebo or another therapy.
And now we have it. ACTIV-6 was published last week in JAMA… The primary outcome was straightforward: time to clinical recovery. Did ivermectin make people get better, faster? It did not.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/ivermectin-miracle-drug-right-wing-aspirin/683197/
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/982852
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ivermectin-medical-subculture-covid-pandemic/673467/
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o917
COVID-19 Misinformation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#COVID-19_misinformation
https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/news/ivermectin-for-covid-19-review-update-11-trials-and-no-evidence-of-benefit-shown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/ivermectin-covid-peru-misinformation
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/the-true-believers-backing-ivermectin-20210915-p58ryu
“The antiparasitic drug ivermectin became a cause célèbre for right-wing figures promoting it as a supposed COVID treatment.[400] Misinformation about ivermectin’s efficacy spread widely on social media, fueled by publications that have since been retracted,[401][402] misleading “meta-analysis” websites with substandard methods,[403][404] and conspiracy theories about efforts by governments and scientists to “suppress the evidence.”[405][406]”
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/brazil-tragic-ivermectin-for-covid-frenzy-warning-to-us-experts-2021-9
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted
Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 6: Incompetence and fraud everywhere!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/how-my-ivermectin-research-led-to-twitter-death-threats
Ivermectin-COVID-19 study retracted; authors blame file mixup
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted
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