Another day, another viral article being cited as proof that ivermectin can cure COVID-19 The newest example is even more depressing than previous ones somehow 1/npic.twitter.com/B6IlgGWZS2
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7/n Indeed, the authors have copied the information in this paragraph directly from this shoddy website, leading to this wonderful sentence making its way into a published scientific paperpic.twitter.com/U4NIgERNOw
8/n Complete misinterpretations of p-values aside, the website is one of many really bizarre anonymous efforts to push ivermectin and other unproven medications for COVID-19
9/n More rigorous reviews have pointed out that virtually all published studies on ivermectin are of extremely low quality, but you wouldn't know that from the summary presented on ivmmeta dot com!pic.twitter.com/d0Ma4NoPMA
10/n In fact, one of my favourite parts is where a WHO investigation that concluded that ivermectin should not be given outside of a clinical trial as the evidence is so woeful is misrepresented as showing that ivermectin is massively beneficial!pic.twitter.com/MARkZRcsR5
11/n (As a side note, the odds ratio is apparently presented because the WHO didn't "provide the details required to calculate the RR". That's weird, because the WHO did in fact calculate an RR in the report)pic.twitter.com/LPqkYmwn6A
12/n Anyway, this website is what I would call solidly pseudoscientific - mimicking science closely enough to trap the unwary, but so filled with errors that the evidence is largely worthless
13/n Even funnier than all this, perhaps, is the conclusion of the paper, because despite this all being used online as proof that ivermectin works perfectly that's not even what the authors saypic.twitter.com/ZvTLgeoOYM
14/n I mean, "repurposing of approved drugs such as ivermectin" has been the focus of most of our attention since March 2020, it's not like we needed that push
15/n Anyway, it is very odd that this paper was published as is, it has at least a few pretty bizarre red flags, but that hasn't stopped it reaching an Altmetric of 4,500 Yay, science!
The website is not. Journal but all data in one place and links back to all original data and full research papers. I've read all the preprints and published papers it was good to have it in one place to link back to the research itself.
Complete with biased and nonsensical commentary.
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