Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable
With all the criticism of the mRNA and other COVID vaccines, which actually do have science backing them up, what is the science that would make ivermectin actually work?  It&#x27;s an antiparasitic drug.  I see a lot of criticism of the COVID vaccines, especially from the right, but then they are fine taking hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin if there is any glimmer of hope that they will work.  I just don&#x27;t get it.  Maybe, just <i>maybe</i>, it&#x27;s not all some big conspiracy, and the vaccines were actually designed to help people?  Is that so far fetched?  Doesn&#x27;t taking something random like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin seem more far fetched?  It does to me.