Beyond The Roundup | Fact Checking The Fact Checkers: Associated Press VS Ivermectin
Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: The Case of #Ivermectin for Publicly-Subsidized Research:
On December 11, TrialSite News reported on a US Senate hearing at which, among other things, there was testimony urgently calling for more research and an EUA for Ivermectin as both a prophylactic against and an early treatment for #COVID-19. As we recently covered, there is mounting evidence in support of these uses, and definitely for government-sponsored research, for this cheap and safe drug. One media account we did not address was a December 10 “fact check” by the Associated Press (AP) in collaboration with Facebook titled, “No evidence Ivermectin is a miracle drug against COVID-19.” In this piece, the AP relies on old protocols and also ignores newer evidence, showing an excessive deference to official edicts over honestly looking at the medical evidence. The #AP author doesn’t do her homewor