Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that some have claimed is an effective treatment for reducing Covid-19 deaths. Like other potential cheap treatments for Covid-19, the pharma companies producing the vaccine - and their many well-funded supporters - have been determined to discredit Ivermectin.
This meta-analysis study in which Tess Lawrie was a co-author showed good evidence of effectiveness, but another study looking at the same data came to a different conclusion. So we did a different type of meta-analysis using Bayesian analysis on the data. We found that the data did indeed provide support for the effectivness of Ivermectin, even when some potentially flawed studies were excluded. Our full report is here and here is a shorter version published as a letter in the American Journal of Therapeutics.
Another favourable analysis of Ivermectin studies was done by Dr Andrew Hill of University of Liverpool, but he subsequently did a surprising U-turn.
Now a remarkable transcript of a recorded conversation between Tess Lawrie and Andrew Hill has been published which sheds light on Hill's U-turn. The details are shocking, but not totally surprising.
UPDATES (7 March 2022):
- This powerful video shows the actual zoom meeting betwee Lawrie and Hill: https://www.oraclefilms.com/alettertoandrewhill
- Phil Harper has done some excellent investigative work_ on who the mystery 'editors' of Andrew Hill's paper were. One appears to be the Professor who obtained the $40million Unitaid grant just days before the paper's conclusions were edited._
- Many further studies demonstrating the benefits of invermectin in treating covid have been published including this one which shows it is far more effective than remdesiver in reducing mortality
UPDATE (12 March 2022): The claims of a twitter blue checkmark to discredit Tess Lawrie's story are easily debunked.
And now compare what was said in that recorded conversation with Hill's claims of victimhood here. Note how Hill also makes the ludicrous claim that it is scientists who are positive about the vaccines and who discredit alternative treatments who are the ones getting marginalised and abused.
And, as an interesting footnote to the story, here is my interaction with a typical blue-tick medical doctor after I tweeted about this today. Never heard of this guy before but note his rudeness, arrogance and ignorance.
