In med school I learned 2 important things about studies. 1) you ALWAYS need to look at who is funding them, and 2) you can pick any little tid bit out of an entire study and make a mountain out of it if you try.
In med school I learned 2 important things about studies. 1) you ALWAYS need to look at who is funding them, and 2) you can pick any little tid bit out of an entire study and make a mountain out of it if you try.
3) don't trust the title or the abstract. In this case (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389), they had no deaths in the ivermectin group and one death in the placebo group (hidden in "Table 2 Outcomes in the Primary Analysis Population"). So all they had to do to please their sponsors was to make the "time to resolution of symptoms" the most important point and to downplay deaths.
3) don't trust the title or the abstract.
In this case (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389), they had no deaths in the ivermectin group and one death in the placebo group (hidden in "Table 2 Outcomes in the Primary Analysis Population"). So all they had to do to please their sponsors was to make the "time to resolution of symptoms" the most important point and to downplay deaths.
Yep!
Yep!
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