I am not a professional, but this looks like a very good study and I trust its results. I think I am pretty convinced that Ivermectin alone is not effective at treating Covid. I still have hope that it is effective in preventing it. We need more studies on that.
> It's by far the surest way to regime change Russia
Ah, Ok. Another country to bring democracy and freedom to. I really thought that by this time we have learned our lesson - but I guess not - God help us.
The title of the article is "The social network for doctors is full of vaccine disinformation".
Given examples of such "disinformation" in my opinion are valid concerns:
"Covid-19 vaccines have already killed over 4,000 adults who’ve received the vaccine" - there is a strong signal that it might be true.
"Articles about vaccines or masks have hundreds of comments, many that are factually inaccurate and often based on conspiracy theories" - lab leak conspiracy has been considered a conspiracy theory for a year or more so I am not sure what they call conspiracy theory now.
So instead of talking about risk analysis, mainstream media just proclaims all negative vaccine comments to be "disinformation".
This is another illustration of loss of trust to important institutions in our society - I hope we are hitting the bottom and will rebound, but not so sure.
Pretty sad what is going on with social media and MSM censoring a critical speech and discussions that can save lives. This is just plain authoritarianism.
Yes, Putin by arresting Navalny or "killing Magnitsky" is showing the world that he is way darker than, for example, G.W.Bush whose sins [1] just pale in comparison.
I agree though that corruption on all levels is a systematic problem in Russia that is not getting better.
> Good point, any others? Because the claim was "many of the US’s allies", one example is not enough.
Omitting usual suspects - Jordan is a monarchy.
> These people spent 70 years practicing and exporting communism. They suffered heavy military losses in Afghanistan. They have lost the cold war, and lost many dependent territories.
And adding "democratic" institutions like independent large businesses controlled by oligarchs, "free" press also controlled by oligarchs and "free" elections manipulated by oligarchs and external forces, "free" market economy w/o protectionism, was making the country into what Ukraine is today - just country divided into feudal domains controlled oligarchs in turn controlled by western elites.
> Democratic freedoms and human rights did good for people.
> Under Yeltsin they had freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, separation of powers, state-independent business including large corporations, the federation, and independent press.
And how much good did it do to people of Russia? I'd say that going the "democratic" way Russia would end up pretty much in the same place where Ukraine is now, and surely Russians would not want that. And thus maybe Russia way is actually more "democratic". We are learning quite a lot about democracy and free speech here too.
You've got a point here, although nowadays after "Russia interfered in election", "Trump colluded with Russia" etc., I am not sure if I can trust in what is being reported on many issues.
> Sure, but how is Q more trusted than, say, the FBI, even if the FBI is hardly to be trusted at all?
Yep, it is all screwed up - we need to work on establishing new sources of information because many old ones pretty much discredited themselves (maybe they can be cleaned up but I doubt it). Political journalism is hard to find these days - but there are some brave people like GG and MT that are trying to do that outside of media corporations and I think it is a way to go for now.
I also wonder what the cost of this study was.