Disclosure: no dog in the fight and never heard of this drug before.
Sure, it might be that a dozen long time lurkers had to create an account to made people aware of it. Its plausible.
I think its more plausible that HN is suffering a disinformation attack by a cheap as botnet.
A limit of "wait 1 day after registering to comment" would make whatever cheap botnet is doing this much less effective. Since after 1 day most stories are not in the frontpage anymore.
Other treatments have good data like Fluvoxamine, here's a good article from Steve Kirsh: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-cure-for-COVID-19/answer/...
Am interested in a genuine discussion of facts. There's a lot of censorship around Ivermectin. Youtube specifically says it can delete videos mentioning ivermectin as a treatment for covid. Since when is science advanced through censorship instead of debate?
One guy signing up or creating a throwaway isn’t exactly unlikely.
"The sale of vermifuge ivermectin jumped from R$44.4 million in 2019 to R$409 million last year, an increase of 829%."
(In portuguese) https://negativando.medium.com/m%C3%A9dicos-pela-vida-s%C3%A...
Or that the FDA promotes Remdesivir which make's Gilead billions of dollars, where the largest non-manufacturer sponsored trial by the WHO showed 0 benefit for saving lives?
Why is hacker news so excited about something that may take months to get to market, currently has less efficacy data than ivermectin, and will never have the safety profile of ivermectin?
