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Is the Oxford ivermectin study designed to fail?

I know that Dr Mobeen Syed has few supporters here (just me, I think!) But I thought this 5 minute snippet from a recent video with Dr Marik might be of general interest

It was Oxford, after all, who gave patients 5x the safe dose of HCQ without Vit D or Azithromicin, to prove that HCQ didn’t work. They also engines patients who were well into the disease progression, instead of very early…

What a coincidence!

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Terrific find and I’ve only watched about 10 mins! I don’t have Syed among the far-gone conflicted guys.
Good questions so far.
Yes ivermectin trial is set up to fail says Marik.
Dr Been interjects that ivermectin is useful at later stages, but thinks it will still fail. I think that’s because of numbers. If few people are ill ivermectin might help those people but since they will be smaller in number, there will not be enough to reach statistical significance. If the history of HCQ is anything to go by, it will become another touted Randomized Controlled Trial that ‘showed’ these drugs that aren’t vaccines don’t work.

Just before about 1.10 a questioner asks what we should do if the object were to eliminate the virus in a month.
Marik says: If we were to do a mass distribution with Ivermectin together with melatonin, vitamin D, aspirin, I think we would get rid of this virus.
Dr Been - I think that was the most important question and answer actually.

I wonder what pearls there are in the rest of this encounter!

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I’ve been wondering the same but the little info on the PRINCIPLE site does seem encouraging, as does the PI Chris Butler.

As for Dr Been here’s a little rant about perishing videos.

I have to question whether any video that’s 100 minutes long is a good use of my time. I know that sounds arrogant but I really don’t mean to imply that my time is more precious than anyone else’s. I read quickly, usually from hard copy and with a pencil nearby.

I could absorb much more detailed information with 100 minutes reading (probably split into shorter sessions). How do I skim this sort of stuff and get a sense of what people are saying? This is not Dr Beens fault nor Del Bigtree nor James Corbett nor anyone else who uses video as their preferred medium.

Casablanca, starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, runs 102 minutes…

Happy to take your word for it on the content @Evvy_dense and @PontiusPrimate. My thoughts are probably quite similar to those ED outlined and it seems late in the day to be testing prophylactic medicines when virulence seems to have subsided (touch wood). Teaching a critical mass of trial subjects likely to be a challenge.

Typo: I’ll leave the amusing autocorrect. But it should be “reaching” :grin:

It’s a problem. Transcripts are a good thing and some bigger outfits wisely invest in them (Mercola for example). But small audiences can’t easily arrange to do it for themselves as a transcript of a video takes much longer to do than even watching it.
One solution might be a protocol where people divvy up the effort of either transcribing or highlighting key points, without necessarily knowing each other.

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