Flutterby™! : Ivermectin & COVID-19

So I became aware of the Ivermectin and COVID-19 thing a few weeks ago, looked into it, thought "huh, the people behind this seem kinda skeevy, but the results they're reporting might be useful". Looks like it was one giant troll after all: Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns

It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,” Lawrence said.

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“The authors claimed they conducted the study between the 8th of June and 20th of September 2020, however most of the patients who died were admitted into hospital and died before the 8th of June according to the raw data. The data was also terribly formatted, and includes one patient who left hospital on the non-existent date of 31/06/2020.”

Also, what is the world comin to when The Guardian is referencing Grftr.news? Why Was a Major Study on Ivermectin for COVID-19 Just Retracted?

When opening what the authors claim is their original data the first thing that any reader notices is that it’s remarkably complete. In many columns data for all patients are fully listed. The second thing the reader will likely notice is that the original data do not match the author’s public results. In three of the four study arms measuring patient death as an outcome, the numbers between the paper and original data differ.