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Bret Weinstein

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

So that's the sum total of the story.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

I am still not sure I know.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

The crime is so ghastly.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

Maybe I'm just naive.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

Well, one, the evidence is actually really powerful that ivermectin works.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

It also reveals something about what's wrong with medical science at the moment.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

Because what's really going on here is we don't correctly respond when we are told that randomized controlled trials are the gold standard of scientific tests.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

Randomized controlled trials in principle are capable of doing something best in class, and that is revealing very subtle effects.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

However, they are very prone to being distorted by biases of the researchers.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

And in these cases of the together trial and the principal trial and the others, what you seem to have is a cottage industry of generating results that are favorable to the pharma regime.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

And what we in the public should want are tests that are

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

very difficult to rig.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

So randomized control trial, in this case, where you have multiple drugs being tested, where they share a placebo group, where endpoints are adjusted midstream, where the

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

particular endpoints that are targeted are adjusted to make some drugs look good and other drugs look bad.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

All of those are places where fraud can hide.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2427 - Bret Weinstein

It is way more important to have good experiments than to have highly sensitive experiments that are very prone to fraud because there's so much incentive for fraud in our current system.