# Ivermectin question **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** factual, covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 1, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-question/958741 "2022-02-01T12:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-question/958741/21 "2022-02-05T15:07:47Z")
To be fair, if a study is written by idiots, and then reviewed by other idiots, the reviewers are indeed “peers” of the writer. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-question/958741/22 "2022-02-05T15:26:01Z")
It’s debatable whether lousy peer review is better than no peer review at all. Ivermectin enthusiasts were quick to flaunt a study out of Mexico that appeared on a pre-print server, claiming that ivermectin treatment significantly reduced Covid-19 hospitalizations. It has now been withdrawn, and the server is saying gee, sorry about that. “Depending on which critique you prefer, the paper is either very poor quality or else deliberately false and misleading. PolitiFact debunked it[**here**](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/04/facebook-posts/claim-ivermectin-bringing-down-covid-19-mortality-/), partly based on[**this factcheck**](https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/pesquisa-na-cidade-do-mexico-nao-e-capaz-de-provar-reducao-de-internacoes-por-covid-19-com-ivermectina/) in Portuguese. We do not believe it provides reliable or useful information, and we are disappointed that it has been very popular (downloaded almost 10,000 times so far).” “This has prompted us to clarify that our moderation process does not involve peer review, or substantive evaluation, of the research papers that we host. …” > **[Paper used to support claims that ivermectin reduces COVID-19...](https://retractionwatch.com/2022/02/04/paper-used-to-support-claims-that-ivermectin-reduces-covid-19-hospitalizations-is-withdrawn-by-preprint-server/)** > > The overseers of the preprint server SocArXiv have withdrawn a paper which claims that treating Covid patients with ivermectin dramatically reduces their odds of hospitalization, calling the work “… A statement affirming that “we will not post such crap in the future” has not been forthcoming. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-question/958741/23 "2022-02-05T15:28:20Z")
> [@Turble](#): > > Well, if PolitiFact and Facebook are partnering up I guess it must be true; no political ideology there, fur shure. I don’t know about Facebook but Politifact checks out on impartiality: > **[PolitiFact - Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother? Her hometown newspaper...](https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/jul/18/did-ilhan-omar-marry-her-brother-her-hometown-news/)** > > For years, critics of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., have raised questions about her marriages and made the explosive claim t In general, if anyone - on either side of the political fence - makes an accusation against anyone or anything, you should take it seriously. There’s 300,000,000 people in this country and no shortage of scientific studies on medicine. If there are questions about the reliability of any particular individual option, you might as well move on to the next one until you finally get to the one that no one can say anything bad about. Why marry yourself to something that a roll of the dice would say is bad? There’s plenty of other options to move on to and, sure, maybe you were the magical person who spotted the diamond in the rough that half the country missed and you were right all along, but you don’t have to play that gamble if you just pick something that has no faults. Just grab the beautiful, lab tested, giant diamond when it comes by on the conveyor belt, and let the rest pass. No one, for example, has said dick about Remdesivir and Paxlovid. A whole lot of people have said things against self-medicating - especially when you’re not a doctor. Ultimately, you’re not called for here. If you get seriously ill, go to the doctor and let him do his job. If he tells you that you’re fat and should lose weight, then lose weight. If he tells you to sleep 7 hours a day, sleep 7 hours a day. If he says that you’re dying of Covid and he gives you Remdesivir, take the pill. If he tells you to put your hands in his pants or to read his book about how aliens are taking over the White House, find a different doctor. You don’t need to get complicated with this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-question/958741.md?page=1)