Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Fake News from RHH Date:   1/9/2025 7:26:15 AM

Did you actually read tha article?!?  Did you even read the title?  Let me answer this for everyone.....not a chance.  I'm not a doctor, never played one on TV and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night but I'm pretty sure Ivermectin is not spelled h-y-d-r-o-x-y-c-h-l-o-r-o-q-u-i-n-e, proving that whatever school RHH went to failed him in reading comprehension and spelling.  Ya see sparky, the paper in question, which I had never before even heard of let alone relied on for any health care decision I have made, is about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), not Ivermectin.

Onto the fake news part of it, and this is typical SOP for rags like USA Today and it works like a charm with the scientifically illiterate such as RHH.  The article makes the obvious error of assuming that this one paper is the only source of data about the possible efficacy of HCQ.  I have not personally studied this as I have with Ivermectin so I don't know much about HCQ studies, and not surprisingly this was not addressed in the article. But the fact that one early-on study was retracted doesn't impact other studies that may have come to the same conclusion.  But I can assure you that the journalism major who wrote this article is clueless about that as well.

More importantly,  the retraction of one article from eons ago is not dispositive of anything other than that particular study.  As mentioned in the article, the reason for its retraction was the small sample size and other methodological errors in data analysis.  What that means for the scientifically illiterate is not that HCQ doesn't work, only that this particular study did not use proper methodology to prove that it does or doesn't.  If you cannot see the difference then I can't help you.

So none of this applies to me in the least but if you want to do some research on your own regarding all studies that have examined HCQ and draw your own conclusions please do.  I frankly could care less as I have and have used Ivermectin when I had COVID and I completely recovered in 3 days with no lingering issues.  Probably one of the mildest cases of coronavirus I have ever had.  And I have been taking z-pak ever since and have not had even a mild cold or the flu in years and I used to get it every winter.