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Higher doses of ivermectin still useless against COVID-19

New peer-reviewed research using higher and longer doses of ivermectin still is useless in preventing and treating COVID-19.

“The War on Ivermectin” by Pierre Kory is coming — he’s still wrong

A new book, “The War on Ivermectin” by Pierre Kory is about to be published. Ivermectin does not work, and that’s supported by science.

Lawsuit against California AB2098, which allows sanctions of doctors who pass false information

This article about a lawsuit against California’s new law, AB2098, was written by Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco, CA), who is a frequent contributor to this and many other blogs, providing in-depth, and intellectually stimulating, articles about vaccines, medical issues, social policy, and the law.

Professor Reiss writes extensively about vaccination’s social and legal policies in law journals. Additionally, Reiss is also a member of the Parent Advisory Board of Voices for Vaccines, a parent-led organization that supports and advocates for on-time vaccination and the reduction of vaccine-preventable diseases. She is also a member of the Vaccines Working Group on Ethics and Policy.

On September 30, 2022, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB2098, a bill that tells the medical board that misinformation and disinformation given to a patient as treatment or advice is “unprofessional conduct” worthy of sanction.

As a reminder, misinformation about COVID-19 is a real problem in the pandemic, leading to low vaccination rates that increased deaths and harm, and people using fake treatments against COVID-19.

On October 4, 2022, the first lawsuit against AB2098 was filed, brought in the name of two doctors with a history of COVID-19 misinformation – including promoting unsupported treatment like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and deterring people from vaccinating. The doctors are represented by attorneys from the conservative organization Liberty Justice Center.

Although there are some doubts and uncertainties, the law should probably survive judicial review – and these doctors are likely typical of the kind of misinformer that made the law needed, and several of the claims they make are demonstrably untrue, which works in support of the law.

Peer-reviewed journal publishes COVID-19 denier editorial filled with lies

A peer-reviewed neurosurgery journal published a COVID-19 denier editorial that peddled false statements about the COVID-19 pandemic without any scientific and unbiased evidence to support the claims.

I am not sure what possessed the journal to publish a COVID-19 denier article, maybe something to do with false balance or something else, but you know that this article, by appearing in a peer-reviewed journal, will be used by the anti-vaccine forces as a justification for the COVID-19 denier nonsense.

Let’s take a look at this article and refute the claim presented in the COVID-19 denier editorial. This should be easy.

America’s Frontline Doctors’ telemedicine physician loses licenses

A physician who was prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine through America’s Frontline Doctors’ telemedicine website lost all of her medical licenses. The website no longer has a physician who can prescribe medications.

America’s Frontline Doctors is a group of people (many are not physicians) who have not, despite the name, served on the COVID-19 frontline, but who appear more as a political lobbying group, and who have a history of claims without foundation.

Let’s take a look at what happened here just so you know how bad this organization is.

Vitamin C for sepsis study may be fraudulent — data was too perfect

by Michael Simpson
2022-03-28
COVID-19, Infectious disease, Supplements

As you all know, I am a skeptic of almost all supplements, and I never thought that using vitamin C for sepsis was supported by robust and repeated data. Well, an analysis by an Australian physician, statistician, and Ph.D. student may have found fraudulent data, and it’s becoming a topic of conversation among physicians who have used the protocol to treat sepsis.

Let’s take a peek at this story since it is so amazing because this shows how science really works.

Horse dewormer ivermectin still doesn’t work for COVID — get the vaccine

I thought I had finished writing about the horse dewormer ivermectin, but a new large study shows that it still doesn’t do anything for COVID-19. Unless you just happen to have a parasitic infection along with COVID-19, sure, it could help there.

Well, let’s take a look at this new study, just to the final nail in the coffin for using ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Who am I kidding?

Ivermectin for the last time — clinical trial says it’s worthless for COVID-19

Maybe this time, we can bury ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19. Because we have a robust randomized clinical trial that says it’s worthless. Of course, I’m not a fool, I’m sure someone will claim that the reptilians did not want ivermectin for humans, so they fixed the clinical trial to have negative results. As a reptilian, I beg to differ.

Seriously, this clinical trial should put to rest any lingering thoughts that ivermectin has any usefulness for anything, except for treating parasitic infections in livestock and humans. It is basically useless for COVID-19.

As I always do, I will do a critical analysis of the paper, so that maybe you can use it if your Uncle Bob tries to tell you that we don’t need vaccines, just ivermectin.

Meryl Nass – Robert F Kennedy Jr anti-vaccine acolyte – medical license suspended

Dr. Meryl Nass, MD, had her Maine medical license temporarily suspended for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. I might have ignored this one, except Dr. Nass has written misleading articles about COVID-19 and vaccines for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., one of our favorite anti-vaxxers.

State medical licensing boards are fighting back against COVID-19 disinformation, and Dr. Meryl Nass should have known better, but my expectations are obviously too high.

Let’s take a look at the case.

A Nobel Prize does not mean Traditional Chinese Medicine works

by Michael Simpson
2021-11-14
Infectious disease, Novartis, Traditional Chinese Medicine

In 2015, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Prize for Medicine to three researchers, one of whom investigated one aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This Nobel Prize continues to be used by TCM advocates as “proof” that it works, and is “real” medicine. In fact, the Nobel Prize does not confer special status to TCM.

One of the winners of this prize was Youyou Tu (see note 1), for her novel work in developing a medicine to treat malaria. Dr. Tu was the first Nobel Prize winner in the natural sciences from China, so she is a groundbreaking scientist in many ways.

Dr. Tu found this potential treatment for malaria through her research into Chinese herbs, which led people to proclaim that Traditional Chinese Medicine has now been “proven.” But not so fast.

What is the relevance of the Nobel Prize and Traditional Chinese Medicine – is there any importance at all?

Let’s take a look at Traditional Chinese Medicine, in general, and Dr. Tu’s work itself. The story is quite a bit more complicated, nuanced, and scientific than you might have read.