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Skylab  Beware of he who would deny you access to information...  3yr ago (doyourownresearch.substack.com)   854 thread views

Alexandros Marinos' penultimate conclusion of his strong criticism of Scott Alexander's Ivermectin blog.

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This might be one of the most remarkable paragraphs in his whole piece. Scott understands that there is immense social pressure to find ivermectin does not work. If we’re being strict about it, any evidence that emerged after this Tweet should be considered tainted, given that this is a pretty direct threat to the career of any perceptive scientist who saw it:

[FDA tweet: "Hold your horses, y'all. Ivermectin may be trending but it still isn't authorized or approved to treat Covid-19]

Can you name another time a US regulator took such a public stance against a drug that was being actively investigated at the time? I sure haven’t heard of any such case. The FDA even doubled down a few months ago...

And yet, Scott—knowing all this and much more—does not use this information to temper his analysis."

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This definitely falls into the Culture War category; please repost in the Culture War thread!

That said, there's a few things you should probably fix before doing that; for example:

We did have an argument, but as civilized persons, we don't believe in mandates.

This breaks the rule against enforcing ideological conformity; please don't do that.

Also it's not culture war. It's medical science.

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