This is a public peer review of Scott Alexander’s essay on ivermectin, of which this is the fifth part. You can find an index containing all the articles in this series here. Similarly to Biber et al., Babalola et al. is another of the studies where Scott follows Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz off a cliff, wrongly placing real doubt on the capability and/or integrity of the researchers, while at the same time omitting exculpatory information. Another case that could probably have been avoided had Scott engaged some counterweight to Gideon’s one-sided criticism.
You have been relentless on this. Which is awesome. Thanks. From afar it really does look like the 'establishment' doth protest too much given what could be a measure people could take where the downside is no worse than say whatever the downside is to masking kindergarteners and their teachers all day. The upside being maybe more people could move on from this epidemic knowing they have one more tool in their belt...even if it is just a placebo effect why begrudge people the psychological boost.
> Had Scott put out a call to get his readership to help parse the studies, we might have had a quantum leap in our understanding of the ivermectin literature.
If nothing else, hopefully Scott finds out about this great idea of crowd-sourcing some of his analyses.
(*The name of the first author is Babalola, not Babaloba. If I’m bitter it’s only because I spent an inordinate amount of time googling for a non-existent study. But let’s get back to our regularly scheduled ranting)
Dump Google for a better search engine that doesn't censor rank results. If you were using Presearch even with the wrong spelling the study comes up in page one. Starve the tech titans and improve your web experience.. cut search frustration by 90% and be untraced.. win-win!! :~)
You have been relentless on this. Which is awesome. Thanks. From afar it really does look like the 'establishment' doth protest too much given what could be a measure people could take where the downside is no worse than say whatever the downside is to masking kindergarteners and their teachers all day. The upside being maybe more people could move on from this epidemic knowing they have one more tool in their belt...even if it is just a placebo effect why begrudge people the psychological boost.
> Had Scott put out a call to get his readership to help parse the studies, we might have had a quantum leap in our understanding of the ivermectin literature.
If nothing else, hopefully Scott finds out about this great idea of crowd-sourcing some of his analyses.
(*The name of the first author is Babalola, not Babaloba. If I’m bitter it’s only because I spent an inordinate amount of time googling for a non-existent study. But let’s get back to our regularly scheduled ranting)
Dump Google for a better search engine that doesn't censor rank results. If you were using Presearch even with the wrong spelling the study comes up in page one. Starve the tech titans and improve your web experience.. cut search frustration by 90% and be untraced.. win-win!! :~)
https://presearch.io/
https://presearch.com/search?q=Babaloba%20ivermectin%20study