Reply To: Please explain Ivermectin

Reb Eliezer – I appreciate you bringing an actual citation. The specific article you cite is not a scientific, peer reviewed study, but a proposal on how a study of Ivermectin would be done. Fair enough. But it does not answer the scientific question of how it would work on COVID.

In the same issue of that journal, there is an article touting Ivermectin’s efficacy. But it was written primarily by a statistician who used correlation as a basis for including Ivermectin as a COVID treatment. Meaning… doing exactly what has been said before… there is a percentage of mortality reduction among patients who took Ivermectin. But no chemical explanation as to why and how Ivermectin attacks the virus.

Here I’ll give you some more inside info… the “study” (it wasn’t a study, it was a statistical gathering of data) was funding by “gofundme.” Not a university, hospital, governmental organization, charity, or any normal source of funding for scientific research. That’s the first red flag.

The American Journal of Therapeutics sounds very prestigious. But in the scientific world… it’s not (to be nice). All scientific journals are given an “impact factor” every year by the global scientific community based on the reliability of the material published and how often the articles are cited in other studies. For example, the New England Journal of Medicine has an impact factor of 91.245. Lancet’s impact factor is 79.321. Nature (where my wife is published) is 42.6 or so. Only about 1.5% of journals exceed an impact factor of 10. This journal has an impact factor of 2.688. So we’re not exactly dealing with the most rigorous or respected science (if this even involved science).