Huge study supporting Ivermectin was fraudulent

[Oxx]

According to a report in The Guardian, a study by Dr. Ahmed Elgazzar from Benha University in Egypt used falsified data to "prove" that Ivermectin is an effective treatment for Covid.  Furthermore, the paper's results were inconsistent with his (faked) raw data.  The paper has now been withdrawn.

 

Unfortunately, Dr. Elgazzar's "findings" have been incorporated in metaanalyses of the efficacy of Ivermectin, and, to quote one expert, “Because the Elgazzar study is so large, and so massively positive – showing a 90% reduction in mortality – it hugely skews the evidence in favour of ivermectin”.

 

One wonders about the morality of a man who lies to the world about the drug in the midst of a global pandemic.

 

Anyway, lots more detail in The Guardian article.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-supporting-ivermectin-as-covid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns

 

p.s. This topic is about the scientific fraud - not whether Ivermectin is effective or not at treating COVID.

[danferguson]

Some more details on these websites: (some of it is a bit technical!)

 

https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602

 

https://grftr.news/why-was-a-major-study-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19-just-retracted/

 

https://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2021/07/Some-problems-with-the-data-from-a-Covid-study.html

 

Everyone is waiting for the original study authors to reply, or the scientists who created the meta analysis studies heavily based on this study. I believe if this study is removed from the meta-analysis, there is almost zero positive data for Ivermectin.