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Can we not start another "meme cure" based on sketchy "research?"

by stutsmansoft 5y ago

rubyist5eva 5y ago
It depends, have we used this drug in veterinary medecine before?
- klyrs 5y ago
  Almost all drugs are tested in animals before humans. There's a huge overlap between "horse drugs" and "human drugs" (et cetera -- a snake of mine got infected by mites, and they don't make snake drugs, so the vet gave us drugs "made for rodents.") While certain drugs have been politicized, and that's bad, your comment is little more than an association fallacy driven by that same polarization. Please don't.
  - rubyist5eva 5y ago
    no jokes allowed! everything must be serious!
    - klyrs 5y ago
      I didn't realize that was a joke. Try being funny next time? To start, avoid sarcasm online, because it really doesn't work.
      - rubyist5eva 5y ago
        thank you king of comedy
- meepmorp 5y ago
  I wish people would stop horsing around and take the subject seriously.
sooner_packing 5y ago
This is not a meme cure based on sketchy research. It appeared to be effective in a recent study in Brazil with 3,000 experiment participants (admittedly not enough, but more research is underway) and it has been covered extensively by mainstream (i.e., not totally crazy) news outlets. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/health/antidepressant-fluvoxamine-covid-hospitalization.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/health/antidepressant-flu... https://www.wsj.com/articles/antidepressant-significantly-reduces-covid-19-hospitalization-11635373800 https://www.wsj.com/articles/antidepressant-significantly-re... https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/02/27/coronavirus-possible-treatment-fluvoxamine-trial-gupta-ebof-vpx.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/02/27/coronavirus-pos... By comparison, I recall that some of the studies that championed ivermectin as a treatment for COVID included experiment participants who were dead before the studies began.

5 ms·

Can we not start another "meme cure" based on sketchy "research?"

by stutsmansoft 5y ago

Can we not start another "meme cure" based on sketchy "research?"

rubyist5eva 5y ago
It depends, have we used this drug in veterinary medecine before?
- klyrs 5y ago
  Almost all drugs are tested in animals before humans. There's a huge overlap between "horse drugs" and "human drugs" (et cetera -- a snake of mine got infected by mites, and they don't make snake drugs, so the vet gave us drugs "made for rodents.") While certain drugs have been politicized, and that's bad, your comment is little more than an association fallacy driven by that same polarization. Please don't.
  - rubyist5eva 5y ago
    no jokes allowed! everything must be serious!
    - klyrs 5y ago
      I didn't realize that was a joke. Try being funny next time? To start, avoid sarcasm online, because it really doesn't work.
      - rubyist5eva 5y ago
        thank you king of comedy
- meepmorp 5y ago
  I wish people would stop horsing around and take the subject seriously.
sooner_packing 5y ago
This is not a meme cure based on sketchy research. It appeared to be effective in a recent study in Brazil with 3,000 experiment participants (admittedly not enough, but more research is underway) and it has been covered extensively by mainstream (i.e., not totally crazy) news outlets. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/health/antidepressant-fluvoxamine-covid-hospitalization.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/health/antidepressant-flu... https://www.wsj.com/articles/antidepressant-significantly-reduces-covid-19-hospitalization-11635373800 https://www.wsj.com/articles/antidepressant-significantly-re... https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/02/27/coronavirus-possible-treatment-fluvoxamine-trial-gupta-ebof-vpx.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/02/27/coronavirus-pos... By comparison, I recall that some of the studies that championed ivermectin as a treatment for COVID included experiment participants who were dead before the studies began.