It shows starkly what you can do to people if you really run down basic education over a couple of decades. And now time and money is going into proper trials of ivermectin to get some definitive results, which seems a waste — conspiracy theorists won’t believe it anyway. I signed up for a trial myself — having been gifted covid by an anti-masker — in the hope I might get the Japanese antiviral that’s shown some promising results. Alas, I got put on ivermectin — but at least I’ll end up parasite free!

Thanks for info on the column. I’ll check it out.