Overcoming Lies, Damn Lies, and the Tendency to Believe Them

"Ivermectin failed as a COVID treatment, a large clinical trial found. The drug surged in popularity despite no strong evidence that it worked." The story referenced a study conducted in Brazil with 1,300 subjects, half of whom were treated with ivermectin and half of whom received a placebo.

The study did show that ivermectin was ineffective and after I read the study, I had to admit that its findings were unassailable.

This study, deliberately constructed to produce a desired outcome, highlights the problem that American dissidents face today in trying to fight back against disinformation and to demonstrate to our fellow citizens who are not attuned to the machinations of those in power that the people and institutions that they have been indoctrinated to believe in and trust are more interested in controlling them and harming them than they are in protecting them.

Said in words, not numbers the study says there is no material difference between giving patients ivermectin versus giving them a sugar tablet.

There is no conclusion to draw except that they deliberately created a study that they knew would produce the strangest of all "Scientific" findings: A false and totally accurate study.

Century, Malcolm Gladwell, refers to studies done by Professor Timothy Levine which led him to develop his "Default to truth theory." Levine's theory holds that humans, in part owing to a practical evolutionary need, have a tendency to take others at their word as a sort of starting point in engagement.

Most people are familiar with the famous 1963 study.

https://humanevents.com/2022/04/05/from-the-dissidents-desk-overcoming-lies-damn-lies-and-the-tendency-to-believe-them/