For example, and as a perfectly balanced counterpoint to the one you are trying to make about ivermectin, dexamethasone was rapidly identified as a cheap, easily available, out of patent medication that significantly reduces morbidity and mortality in covid hospitalised patients early in the pandemic by NHS doctors
Good example. It would be a pleasant surprise to find out that these studies were funded by pharma companies.
Here are three meta-analyses indicating that an SSRI with an expired patent (fluvoxamine) is potentially effective at reducing hospitalization rates for covid:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.17.21268008v... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35118917/
It doesn't work. So they haven't.
A good example is major clinical depression and ketamine.
I hear this a lot to explain the lack of studies. What about this one here though? Isn't this finally a conclusive study debunking all the claims saying Ivermectin alone is a good prevention/treatment for COVID-19?
No, because they didn't <administer some particular dosage>/<administer it at the right times>/<administer it when the moon was in the right phase/when Mercury was in retrograde>.
A true believer can always keep shifting the goalposts.
It wont do a good job of that because the study reported 70% fewer deaths for the Ivermectin treated patients than control (3 vs 10), as well as reductions in ICU and ventilator with treatment.
Between doctors prescribing specific medicine "brands" when generic alternatives are available, insurance companies denying perfectly valid claims and forcing you to challenge their decisions in tribunals and similar venues, and pharmaceutical companies engaging in questionable behavior,[1] I am very reluctant to trust anything championed by this unholy nexus.
[1] There is a multivitamin product from Bayer called Supradyn that I have been using for years. Last year, the company changed the formulation and halved the doses of most of the ingredients while increasing the price by 50% resulting in an effective price increase of 300%.