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Gideon M-K
Personal blog · gidmk.medium.comhealthscience
Gideon M-K's personal blog at gidmk.medium.com covers health and science. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gideon M-K's Medium posts to rebut studies on ivermectin for Covid-19, vitamin D and medical error mortality, pointing to a retracted trial and flawed meta-analyses.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-16
What Hacker News says?
apparently based on very flawed arguments https://gidmk.medium.com/medical-error-is-not-the-third-lead...
Comment linking /medical-error-is-not-the-third-leading-cause-of-deaths-ff13c71851b
on “Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (2016)”Submitted Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research? as a story · 57 points
HN discussion> The Ivermectin paper was surely bad, but it wasn't outrageously bad nor unexpectedly so. Oh, yes it was bad. Very very bad. Outrageously bad. The data was mostly fabricated: https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on...
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
on “Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable”Submitted Does Ivermectin Work for Covid-19? as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> after that abstract I'm not sure I want to check out the details There's a fairly short review of why the study is kinda silly here: https://gidmk.medium.com/vitamin-d-covid-19-and-the-promise-...
Comment linking /vitamin-d-covid-19-and-the-promise-of-immortality-bc0a1e7891d8
on “Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status”Submitted What Is the True Death Rate of Covid-19? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's another analysis (and a better explanation) on this blog - including a section which looks solely at what happens "If you remove the Elgazzar paper from their model..." https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on... "There’s no benefit seen whatsoever for people who have severe COVID-19, and the confidence intervals for people with mild and moderate disease become extremely wide." Later ther…
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
on “Large Ivermectin Study Retracted”Submitted Supplements Don’t “Boost” Your Immune System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSure, but it strikes me that people latched on to this drug as a miracle cure since this study stated that chance of dying with ivermectin was 90% less than compared with a placebo. It just strikes me that any subsequent studies should be viewed with the highest amount of skepticism. I think this epidemiologist provides a better argument than I will ever do on an online forum: https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
on “Large Ivermectin Study Retracted”Submitted Post-Publication Review Is Vital for Science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting. He is an epidemiologist, and it looks like two papers should not have been added to the meta-analysis. He writes more about it here. The Elgazzar paper were cited in 30 other papers. https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on...
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
on “Large Ivermectin Study Retracted”Submitted The Good News About Covid-19 Vaccines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhen analyzing data from all the significant studies (that weren't retracted) However, if you remove the Elgazzar paper from their model, and rerun it, the benefit goes from 62% to 52%, and largely loses its statistical significance. There’s no benefit seen whatsoever for people who have severe COVID-19, and the confidence intervals for people with mild and moderate disease become extremely wide. Where does that lea…
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
on “Ivermectin (Still) Lacks Scientific Support as a Covid-19 Drug”So far, the verdict is more towards not working. https://gidmk.medium.com/
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on “It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda”Be aware that quite a few of the ivermectin studies contain fraud or dodgy data. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermecti... https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on... Not to even mention that the only realistic effect it would have is blunting the effects of IL-6. There’s better options for antagonizing IL-6 with less of a side effect profile, specifically tocilizumab and sa…
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-part-3-5066aa6819b3
on “Considerations in boosting Covid-19 vaccine immune responses”The website seems to be related to the FLCCC, which has been advocating for use of Ivermectin and fighting a lot against vaccination. My skepticism doesn't make me confident this website is as neutral as is could. And yes, there are other studies, but they're not as big and with this large study retracted, it tipped the stats towards being not as effective as it was portrayed. https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
Comment linking /is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
on “Large Ivermectin study retracted, publisher finds plagiarism, problems with data”
