[PragmaticPulp]

> Could it all be random chance? Sure! But that does kind of hint that there might be something there.

Right, which is why we have studies like this: Early studies showed similar "maybe there's something here" type results, which prompted more studies, which later showed that most likely there wasn't something there.

People also seem to have forgotten that all of the other COVID drug research has progressed significantly in the past two years. Drugs like Paxlovid have indisputably significant effects that leave no room for "maybes" like this and should be ramping up quickly. Even if we were to eventually run a study big enough to find some significant effects of Ivermectin, however small, it's already been left behind by other treatment advances.

For some reason Ivermectin sticks as a political talking point, though, so it continues to be debated to death while everyone in the medical research world has long since moved on to better things.

[s1artibartfast]

> which prompted more studies, which later showed that most likely there wasn't something there

Do you have a reference to such a study? I was not aware of any well controlled and appropriately sized studies showing a negative result, but I would be open to reading one.