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Statement #1: "Lol idiots this is horse dewormer!"

Statement #2: "This suggested treatment does not have the desired effect in clinical trials. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8406455/"

Can you agree that those are entirely different statements? And that one is trolling while the other is informative?

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1 infers 2.

I don’t believe 1 infers 2.

2 is useful information and additive to conversation

1 is just juvenile and belongs to Reddit not hacker news

1 infers 1 is an idiot.

There's no substantial evidence that Ivermectin effectively treats COVID-19 in humans, or that it should be taken as an alternative to being vaccinated.

A worm is a parasite (which Ivermectin effectively treats). A parasite (in this sense) is not a virus. Ivermectin does not treat the COVID-19 virus. The GP was glib and insulting but not entirely off base.

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