Two "prog" biologists go Ivermectin instead of vaxx + Fix science, don't just fund

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Fix science, don’t just fund it
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-10982-...l#pid46156

INTRO: More funding won’t solve issues of concentration, bureaucratization, and replication in science... (MORE)


Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying go unvaccinated for Covid, take and promote Ivermectin instead
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/09/1...vermectin/

INTRO: Since Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying left Evergreen State under trying circumstances, they’ve made a living doing podcasts on YouTube, and have become somewhat notorious for their stand on Covid-19 and the dubious remedy Ivermectin.

The story below, from the Portland, Oregon news site Willamette Week, reports how both Weinstein and Heying not only remain unvaccinated against Covid, as they don’t trust the vaccine, but are also dosing themselves with Ivermectin, a drug used in humans for roundworm, lice, and skin conditions, but which has no effect on the coronavirus. (It’s also famous for de-worming horses.) The FDA has strongly warned humans not to dose themselves with this drug as a treatment or preventive for Covid.

Nevertheless, according to both the story below (click on screenshot) and the section on Weinstein and Covid on Wikipedia, the ex-professors have been relentlessly touting Ivermectin (read the Wikipedia section for documentation) and taking it themselves.

Here’s how two “progressive” biologists (not just one) have completely ignored science for reasons best known to themselves. What they have accomplished, instead, is to ruin their reputations except among the loons and some Trumpies.... (MORE - details)
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