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Well, they received 350k dollars in donations in 2020 alone.

I've also heard that they offer "consulting" to governments, such as in Brazil or India. Both used Ivermectin in their "Covid Kits". Didn't really work out, though.

>He made multiple recommendations some of which got adopted as standard of care (ivermectin wasn't adopted)

Shouldn't that show you that he might just be wrong on this one? If he was right, why wouldn't it be adopted?

>Then again, there are also studies designed to undermine the evidence for off label treatments, such as the one about HCQ that was retracted from the Lancet.

Do you have more info?

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$350K per year? 2 more years, and they'll cross Dr Evil's One. Million. Dollars. mark! Divide this between the several US medical professionals involved, and we're looking at life-changing payouts.

The formed the org in 2020. I'm willing to bet 2021 will have a great deal more donations. Their filings for 2021 are not yet out.

The Lancet study involved a company called Surgisphere claiming to have used ML techniques on massive datasets. Medical professionals questioned the findings and the startup founder responsible for the data refused to release it, citing confidentiality agreements, and is generally presumed to have fabricated it to generate publicity for his company. The coauthors requested its retraction. Needless to say, this study does not represent the basis for the medical profession concluding that HCQ does not work; large scale trials did that.

Ironically, it proves the exact opposite of what antivaxxers and alternate cure hypers claim it does: the medical profession was decisive about pulling apart bad studies opposing off label treatments even though it supported their supposition HCQ didn't work and was just hype; just like they've rushed to highlight the indications of likely falsified data in the preprint of this Invermectin study which of course the authors haven't retracted...

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