A walk through the TOGETHER trial FLCCC Weekly Webinar (6 April 2022)

Pierre Kory leads a wonderful discussion (for the research scientist or the very diligent layperson) of the recent TOGETHER trials in Brazil. The WSJ flashed headlines and detailed accounts of just how--after all the hoopla and fanfare from the crazed "Ivermectin advocates" the largest ever super-scientific TOGETHER trials from Brazil proved once and for all that the drug is worthless against COVID. Except that, just as Meryl Nass, M.D. demonstrated nearly two years ago for hydroxychloroquine, these Big Pharma-sponsored trials were fraudulent from top to bottom. For details of the HCQ issue please see https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/search?q=hydroxychloroquine

I watched this video while doing other things, but to make it easier going for the non-researcher, here are several of the key deliberate sins of the study: 1) it was designed to under-dose patients. First by trying to give only a single dose of IVM, then by limiting dosing to three days and limiting the top dosage for someone weighing circa 200 pounds so that the most obese (who are most vulnerable and die from COVID) were inadequately medicated. 2) The control group did not use concurrent usage of IVM as a rule-out condition for participation. Hence, some of the control group patients were also self-treating with IVM (for other conditions). 3) The treatment and control groups were from different time periods. The control group was taken from a period given a mild strain of COVID was afoot (so IVM's utility was limited) while the treatment group was challenged by a devastating strain of COVID so even IVM's power faced a much stiffer challenge: and thus there was no honest comparison between the effects of IVM on the same disease at the same time for the same population. 4) The TOGETHER trial is so large because it compiles a series of smaller ones. The Standard Operating Procedure was to report that the trials “prove” no benefit even when even after all the biases the trials showed change in the direction of benefit but were too small (i.e., under-powered) to reach the arbitrary level of “statistical significance” of 95% certainty. So if a small trial showed only 3 IVM patients hospitalized but 6 controls hospitalized, instead of saying 50% reduction in hospitalization, TOGETHER said, “look, no effect at all!” even when the stats, properly analyzed, showed a good probability of there being an effect if the sample size were larger. There are many more such instances of cynical fraud. The tragedy is that so much of the scientifically ignorant and morally cowardly medical profession cheered on these results.

Kory correctly places the disinformation campaign into historical context: it follows in the footsteps of Big Tobacco faced with devastating evidence of cigarette carcinogenicity as early as George Seldes' 1938 exposé quoting the real science. The strategy is to create doubt in order to immobilize political action (more research is always needed). This is the same strategy that the CIA used in its control of the media to squash and derail political organization against the public understanding the JFK assassination. Pierre Kory expostulated in anger and dismay, "And it works!"