Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Goofy and his fake news Date:   9/9/2021 9:00:42 AM

Goofy, even though I already know the answer...did you even bother to look up this study or gasp.....actually read it?  I know.....you didn't.  A slew of interesting factoids about this "study" in Nigeria (probably funded by one of the Princes that keep sending me emails but never seem to send me the cash). Nope, like many left wing nuts you copied and pasted an article from some idiot reporter who lacks even a basic understanding of science but does know how to get clicks from morons like you.  

One, the study was not peer reviewed nor was it published in a respected scientific or medical journal. In fact there is some question about whether it was published in any journal as it was supposedly published in 2002 in a journal that didn't start publication until 2003.

Two, the study indeed started with 385 men that were treated for river blindness using Ivermectin.  However, if you look at the study you will see that 338 of the 385 patients were removed from the Ivermectin study due to....you got it.....low sperm counts.  So only 37 or 9.6% of the total were evaluated.  That is hardly a large enough population to conclude anything. 

Three, to say this paper lacks scientific rigor would be a gross understatement.  There was no control group so they literally do not know if the Ivermectin was the cause or the river blindness or other factors.  They did not evaluate whether the findings continued over time or abated.  There were no limitations presented which is essential to any scientific paper in order for it to be peer reviewed and confirmed with other studies. It was filled with typos indicating a lack of quality and intellectual rigor.  And it has never been confirmed by any other scientific study in the almost 20 years since it was published.  

Four, the treatment for river blindness using Ivermectin lasts almost a year.  Treatment for Covid using Ivermectin lasts a few days and at much lower dosages.  Hardly comparable, even if correct.  

Five, Ivermectin, along with HCQ, is on the WHO's list of Essential Medicines.  It is prescribed in the U.S. over a hundred thousand times per year and is FDA approved.  I think we can safely say that if this were true it would not be celebrated, used and approved.  So the issue is not whether it is a safe drug...it is when used in proper dosages.  The question is whether it is FDA approved to treat Covid and the answer is no.  Nor will it be until the current vaccines are FDA approved as having an FDA-approved treatment for Covid would immediately void the Emergency Use Authorization of all the rMNA gene therapies masquerading as vaccines.

Oh, and not that I find them terribly credible given their obvious left wing perspective, even Snopes have called into question whether this study is credible.  To me that is proof positive it is absolute garbage because Snopes would have loved nothing more than to say it is a reliable study.  But even they couldn't hold their noses and lie about this so-called study on Ivermectin and male fertility.  I keep saying this Goofy, you absolutely deserve a refund of every penny paid for your govt school education.  As RFK, Jr. said, this pandemic has obliterated critical thinking....not that you had much of that before it started.