Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable

Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by ashtonkem on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#28620202)

> The corruption of the news media is in their choice to mock and literally laugh at people sick from veterinary iver because kicking the out-group is popular with their audience (read $$). They do this instead of explaining (in a meaningful way) how we got here, and what steps we can take to make the situation better.

The idea that this is somehow the media’s fault for not being sufficiently patient and understanding with the ivermectin crowd is actually quite pathetic. Stop infantilizing these people; they are adults with their own agency. Their bad decisions are not the fault of the media[0].

0 - Especially since this crowd was shouting “fake news” for years. How exactly is the media going to convince a bunch of people who are convinced that they’re liars?

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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by titzer on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:52PM (#28620968)

It's just more blame game. Who you blame is who you hate. Racists blame black people for being poor, anti-abortion activists blame women for being "promiscuous", coastals blame red staters for being stupid backwoods yokels, red staters blame ivy tower socialists or immigrants, liberals blame rich people, socialists blame corporations, conservatives blame government, Islamic terrorists blame the great Satan, on and on.

Hate = blame

Love = forgiveness

Listen and see whom people blame and that's who they hate. See who they apologize for and that's who they love.

Been that way since forever.

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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by dhimes on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:16PM (#28621189)

...And: What you hate tends to be what you don't understand. Also since forever.

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