this episode of tech news day is sponsored by caviar and by hellofresh if this pandemic has taught us anything it's that people with no scientific background love hearing second or third hand about obscure studies into potential treatments for coven NUMBER_TOKEN. they love it oh what's that is that a new study it falls right into the addiction to conspiracy theories because it's like if there's a maybe a little bit of truth to this like someone with doctor in their name or whatever it's like all right i'll listen tell me more you're telling me sucking my own dick is going to prevent the coronavirus well i'm down to give anything a try i mean hydroxychloroquine it might work at treating the virus if vermectin might work at treating the virus well then sure if that's the case then that's the cure baby never mind the actual scientific process which calls for carefully evaluating these claims and trying to replicate their results through further studies with larger sample sizes and better controls forget all that yeah if some single random study says there's a cure for covid doctors are supposed to just drop everything and do whatever that study says to do that's how medicine works right and this is in spite of the fact that there is already something that they've studied done tests on and deployed that is free and widely available nah i don't trust it anyways in case it's not clear the statements you just heard have not been evaluated by the u.s food and drug administration and are also obvious sarcasm look you shouldn't be doing this stuff it's not exactly meant for it no they very clearly state that this is not approved to treat coven but it is unfortunately very true that a small but very loud crowd of coveted skeptics they do love to take breaks from not trusting scientists to place all of their trust in very specific scientists whose work goes against the grain when it comes to covert treatments and in a lot of ways look it makes sense this is a scary disease the reason we even have studies into all these random potential cures is because scientists especially early on in the pandemic were kind of just throwing any idea they had at covet to see if anything stuck because like this could get it out of hand yeah and it did if it certainly did it makes less and less sense though now when we already have a pretty damn effective way of preventing the worst case symptoms and outcomes of covet vaccines for which there is much much much more evidence of their effectiveness compared to hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or whatever else plus even if those aforementioned drugs are eventually shown to have some legitimate use against the virus and the odds are not looking great but if so uh for now lots of unknowns remain pretty big unknowns like what the proper dosages should be yeah you get ivermectin in a push pop that's the perfect amount yeah it tastes like sherbet it's actually quite delicious you guys make fun of us for licking horse paste but actually you can gum it you can boof it uh you can snort it yeah they should do like a snooze packet of it yeah so there's like yeah dosages how it's administered how these drugs interact with other treatments and medications that's a pretty PROFANITY_TOKEN big one
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