"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Tag: ivermectin

Mikki Willis has expanded from Plandemic to ivermectin conspiracy theories

Post author By Orac
Post date September 2, 2022
28 Comments on Mikki Willis has expanded from Plandemic to ivermectin conspiracy theories

Mikki Willis of “Plandemic” fame is back, and this time he’s flogging conspiracy theories about ivermectin as a “suppressed” cure for COVID-19.

Tags Anthony Fauci, antivaccine, Bill Gates, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, ivermectin, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, Judy Mikovits, Mikki Willis, Paul Marik, Pierre Kory, Plandemic, Robert Malone, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

ABIM vs. medical disinformation: A day late and a dollar short or better late than never?

Post author By Orac
Post date June 1, 2022
26 Comments on ABIM vs. medical disinformation: A day late and a dollar short or better late than never?

Last month, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial by the President of ABIM discussing how the board certification can be taken away from diplomates who spread medical misinformation. Is this too little, too late?

Tags ABIM, American Board of Internal Medicine, antivaccine, antivaccine movement, board certification, conspiracy theories, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, disinformation, Federation of State Medical Boards, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, misinformation, No License for Disinformation, Rashid Buttar, Stanislaw Burzynski, vaccines

Bad science Biology Clinical trials Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

SBM versus ivermectin and other implausible treatments

Post author By Orac
Post date April 11, 2022
32 Comments on SBM versus ivermectin and other implausible treatments

Science, a.k.a. SBM — Science (in this case, SBM) predicted the failure of ivermectin in clinical trials.

Another large randomized controlled trial for ivermectin showed no efficacy for the early treatment of COVID-19. This is not a surprise to science-based medicine advocates. Here’s why the story of ivermectin shows that SBM isn’t just for “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) —and never was.

Tags COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, EBM, evidence-based medicine, ivermectin, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, methodolatry, SBM, science-based medicine, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Politics Pseudoscience

A risible attack on the “priesthood” of “scientific gatekeeping”

Post author By Orac
Post date April 6, 2022
65 Comments on A risible attack on the “priesthood” of “scientific gatekeeping”

A surgeon attacks “scientific gatekeeping” over COVID-19 in Reason. It goes so poorly that I might have to resurrect an old shtick that I used to use with creationist surgeons.

Tags antivaccine, COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, creationism, Emily Oster, evolution, Great Barrington Declaration, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, Jeffrey Singer, lockdown, Reason, theory of evolution

Bad science Clinical trials Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Yet another negative ivermectin study, this time in the NEJM

Post author By Orac
Post date April 1, 2022
43 Comments on Yet another negative ivermectin study, this time in the NEJM

Yesterday the The New England Journal of Medicine published a high quality clinical trial that found no benefit in treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. Cue attacks on the study.

Tags COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID-19, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, ivermectin

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