This is a public peer review of Scott Alexander’s essay on ivermectin. You can find an index containing all the articles in this series here. Scott Wraps Up His Synthesis This is still just a possibility. Maybe I’m over-focusing too hard on a couple positive results and this will all turn out to be nothing.
This is really a fantastic series that needed to be done. For all of his writing talent SA seems to have a deeply imbedded governance module that kicks in as soon as he wanders too far from the herd.
That makes it really frustrating to read his work on verboten topics because he tends to lay out all of the evidence and logic that are ignored or suppressed and then bizarrely and inexplicably veer off course on flimsy pretexts.
This is really a fantastic series that needed to be done. For all of his writing talent SA seems to have a deeply imbedded governance module that kicks in as soon as he wanders too far from the herd.
That makes it really frustrating to read his work on verboten topics because he tends to lay out all of the evidence and logic that are ignored or suppressed and then bizarrely and inexplicably veer off course on flimsy pretexts.
This has been, and continues, to be the most lucid and productive early treatment review for Ivermectin on the web. Thank you so much. Keep'em coming!
Thanks, Alex. This series has been a great read.
If only most people knew how much easier the patented novel drugs (Paxlovid, Molnupiravir, Remdesivir, etc) have had it.