On Ivermectin and the Importance of Checking Your Sources
Earlier this evening I stumbled upon this meme claiming that Ivermectin - the latest alleged "miracle drug" of the COVID-19 conspiracy theorists - causes low sperm counts in human males. I already knew that COVID-19 can cause Erectile Dysfunction , and frankly, the idea that these Anti-vax idiots might get COVID and then "treat" themselves with horse de-wormer, thereby giving themselves both ED and low sperm count, and making them two-time winners of the Darwin Awards for taking themselves out of the gene pool... it led to a good solid facepalm. Nevertheless, I didn't want to simply take this meme at face value. I wanted to see the study for myself. After a bit of poking around on Google, I was having surprising difficulty locating this article. There are several showing that Ivermectin causes infertility in rats and other animals, but this meme seems to be referencing human infertility. Noticing that the meme claims that this article was found on "Scholar...