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Re:Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy by gus_massa on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:49PM (#27498478)
> It's promising to see something in Science which I hope has a higher bar, although I'm not familiar with the blogs section.

I'm a regular reader of this blog. I have an specialization in Chemistry in the Secondary School, so I can vouch that his articles about Chemistry are solid (and adobe my knowledge level). I'm convinced that the articles about the pharmaceutical industry are correct, but that's a little more far away from my specialization.

About Ivermectin, someone posted a few days ago a site that collect all the favorable evidence. I read a few of the papers and in my opinion it's not convincing. The papers are studies with a small number of persons, or with a small difference or instead of the control group they compare with dubious numbers. Essentially, the same conclusion of this blog post, but I only skimmed a few papers and he probably read most of them carefully. If I were you, I'd thrust his opinions more than mine, but in this case we agree.

Re:Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy by renewiltord on Monday June 14, 2021 @01:38AM (#27499625)
> have an specialization in Chemistry in the Secondary School

Not familiar with American idioms. What does this mean? Secondary School is what you go to after Primary School where I come from, but clearly you can’t mean that.

Re:Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy by jjgreen on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:01AM (#27500373)
I think the OP is Brazilian (submissions include links to blog), in which case Secondary extends to 18, so equivalent to A-level in the UK for example.
Re:Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy by gus_massa on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:36AM (#27501404)
Almost. I'm from Argentina. I'm not sure about the translation, and the system has changed recently, so the current information may be different.

My "Secondary School" was from 13 to 18 (6 years). https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educaci%C3%B3n_Secundaria_T%C3... You had one additional year than a normal "Secondary School" here, it [1] includes normal classes in the morning but less History/Geography/Whatever and in my case more Chemistry, a lot of Chemistry. Half of the days in the afternoon we had practical classes, making Chemistry experiments. At the end, I get a the "Secondary School" degree that enables me to go to the university and also some official habilitation to run a small chemistry factory or laboratory (oversimplifying the legal details) (probably is more accurate to say that I can supervise a few persosns in a factory or a lab).

Other students instead of Chemistry classes had Masonry classes and got an habilitation to build a small house (up to 2 stories?) and other Electronic classes, ... Each School has a different specialization, a bunch of specializations.

Edit: [1] The last 4 years. And the first 2 years have also more technical classes than a usual school, but they mix other stuff like basic electricity or metalworking.

Re:Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy by jjgreen on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:58AM (#27501548)
Thanks for the correction -- I think the confusion comes from "secondary" which is 11-16 in the UK, so "secondary chemistry" is fairly basic (I have it, and I know nothing of chemistry)