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What I don't understand is what is the incentive to publish fake studies to make a cheap generic (low profit) medicine look good? Even Merck, one of the manufacturers of Ivermectin claimed that the studies are invalid (then soon after announced that they are releasing a more expensive competing medicine which they have full patent rights over...). On the other hand, I know exactly what the incentives are to promote vaccines, lockdowns, bailouts, mandates and mass firings.

Journalists often said "To find the truth, follow the money, look at the incentives." It seems that 99.9% of the money is against Ivermectin. Based on my experience working for big corporations, I wouldn't be surprised at all if some directors organized a campaign to threaten, silence and discredit scientists who pose a threat to corporate profits. That is not far fetched at all. Anyone remember big tobacco funding studies to prove that smoking is harmless? You think corporations are less powerful today? With all that money printing and trillion dollar bailouts? With all the media censorship?

Big corporations managed to corrupt the legal system to get Steven Donziger jailed, why couldn't they corrupt the medical establishment in the same way to slander research papers and researchers. How do we know the password was really just 1234... That whole story sounds made up.



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