@theresa_olohan @usatodayopinion I tried to find “disparate treatment”, but instead found symmetric reversal of positions. Partisans support like-partisans, so ACB and KBJ received disapprobation from across the isle and yet both will be confirmed.
Aren’t you just selectively ignoring praise and condemnation?
@matthewwalther @MikeRedingerMD Was that your intention? You seem to take a strong position—from the opening “remarkable” to the concluding “elites will acknowledge their folly.”
And yet you avoid addressing the question raised throughout: why won’t these communities act in the face of so much ongoing death?
@DKThomp@oliverdarcy I wish your first paragraph was what I was mostly reading. You should have to read that to get to the livestock part (which looks like a difference in formulation as well as dosage). Prevalent headlines referring to it simply as horse dewormer don’t help.
@CaraLTaylor@oliverdarcy Yes, that’s one of the aspect that makes the current use nuts. But it doesn’t change that describing it as a livestock drug obscures the fact that it is used in humans. No need to do that to make the case that taking it for another reason, and in a livestock formulation, is nuts.
@oliverdarcy I don’t disagree with the judgement this is nuts, but ivermectin does have uses in humans. It seems like you are representing it as something used only with livestock.
In my “antiscience kills” essay in @PLOSBiology I quote Maxim Gorky the Russian writer who said “without science, democracy has no future”. 20 yrs later when Stalin came to power he immediately began to purge the scientists - the most efficient way to create a totalitarian state
@PeterHotez Why is this? It seems like we know we need to take zoonotic events seriously, and we should take lab safety seriously. Why is the particular origins of C19 critical for future pandemic prevention?