Bret Weinstein

That's one trick you can play.

You can also underdose it.

One of the games played in the principal trial is they detected no difference at all in the patients who got ivermectin and didn't get ivermectin six months later.

Well, I'm not sure you would expect a difference between the population that did and didn't get it six months later.

Right.

So anyway, there's all kinds of games.

And the point is, actually, we do not... You know how when you go to buy a car...

Nobody prioritizes the simple vehicle.

The point is what they sell you is the features.

This car has all of these different new features that your last one didn't.

But there's no value placed on, actually I want fewer features.

I want a tiny number of features that I actually use and I want the car to be capable of dealing with everything, never need any service, all of those things.

But that's just not the way it works.

So scientifically, we're in the same boat where it's like the fancier trial has the priority in our mind just as the new drug has the priority in our mind.

Oh, I want the new one.

No, you don't.

You want the one that all of the interactions with other drugs have already been spotted, that your doctor has a lot of experience knowing how people react to it.

The older drug is better for you.

All else being equal, the older drug stands a much greater chance of anything really seriously wrong with it having been spotted.

I'm just advocating for simpler experiments where nothing can hide and simple statistics can be used and us normal folks can understand what was done.