From what I'm reading, Ukraine used FTX to facilitate donations to Ukraine. I'm waiting for more details on the claim that Ukraine actually directly funded FTX.
In other funding news- FTX did fund one of the studies that "debunked" Ivermectin as an effective covid treatment. There's definitely a strong political slant to this scandal.
I love that proving that a bunch of frauds who were promoting a drug that didn't work at all shows a "political slant". Funding studies to show which drugs treat (and don't treat) covid is unambiguously good and it's insane that it's considered political.
It is insane that it's political. But that's what you get when pharmaceutical companies both test their products on behalf of the regulatory agencies and spend money on politicians. And there are incentives to either not study repurposing existing drugs or even spending money on proving they shouldn't compete with your patented drugs.
Let's talk about Andrew Hill and how a grant from Bill Gates resulted in him changing course on his Ivermectin findings.
I've been seeing articles here on hn for years disparaging corruption within academic journals, but suddenly with COVID, every journal maintained impeccable ethics right?
There are plenty of studies and cohort analysis of Ivermectin studies that show it is highly effective with the right protocol; most of the Ivermectin studies showing it doesn't work aren't using proper doses, nor at the right time, nor for long enough period of time.
No there aren't. It doesn't work and most of the studies showing any effect were fraudulent. I can't believe there are still ivermectin dead-enders out there.
Which of the 93 studies do you have trouble with, what specifically in each of those studies, and how much does that change the numbers/conclusions such as 83% average prophylasxis rate?
And where is it “effective”? Why, countries where internal parasites are a huge issue. Funny, that. It’s almost as if it isn’t a Covid treatment, but a parasitic infection treatment!
You're correct that in Africa, in places where Ivermectin is regularly deployed due to parasites had much lower rates of COVID and death from COVID - but no, you're wrong - that's not where those 93 studies were conducted.
Sorry, I looked through a lot of articles and I don't recall which one it was; they're reported to be both in the Bahamas and Hong Kong, the Bahamas authorities also having said a claim that SBF made about them directing him to do certain actions weren't true.
Certainly there will be a lot of noise to shuffle through over the next few days, weeks.
