David Henderson of AIER wrote a WSJ Opinion piece last month touting ivermectin and the study he cited for his argument was retracted two weeks prior to the piece. How did neither the authors nor the editors catch that at a rather significant newspaper?
There are a whole host of other issues with the piece that I'm rather surprised Henderson would make. He cites in vitro data for effectiveness, and then fails to mention the effective levels were at levels that are well-above the safe levels. He cites the FLCCC doctors claiming it is safe that are pushing it again at unsafe levels.
And the piece ends with some dubious argument that the FDA hasn't approved Ivermectin for Covid use, but is pushing people to wear masks, social distance, and wash their hands as some sort of evidentiary double-standard.
Nowhere in the piece does he advocate people get vaccinated either, which is just bizarre given things like Ivermectin are rather besides the point in the US with a free, safe, and effective vaccine available now.
The pandemic and Trump have been great revelatory events as to how much people will degenerate themselves psychologically, intellectually, morally, politically, socially, professionally and interpersonally. These past 5-6 years I have seen all kinds of people near and far, through different means and ways, of different expertises and credentials, just annihilate their standing by going down, aggressively, all kinds of rabbit holes.
It is nonsense like this that made me stop reading the WSJ.