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After being contacted by The Scientist, the journal posted a statement from Frontiers’s chief executive editor, Frederick Fenter, saying that “Frontiers takes no position on the efficacy of ivermectin as a treatment of patients with COVID-19, however, we do take a very firm stance against unbalanced or unsupported scientific conclusions.”
During review of the article in what the journal refers to as “the provisional acceptance phase,” Fenter says in the statement, members of Frontiers’s research integrity team identified “a series of strong, unsupported claims based on studies with insufficient statistical significance, and at times, without the use of control groups.”
The statement continues: “Further, the authors promoted their own specific ivermectin-based treatment which is inappropriate for a review article and against our editorial policies. In our view, this paper does not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution to the evaluation of ivermectin as a potential treatment for COVID-19.”
The statement provided no information about why these concerns had been raised and acted on now, rather than earlier in the publication process.
It costs about $2. There are no adverse effects at the clinical dose, even if it doesn't work. But we can't try it because it hasn't been studied under "controlled" situations. So I have an idea: Find a group of doctors who are actually sick with COVID-19. Sick, as in symptomatic. Offer them ivermectin. Count the number who take it.