In that really specific case, I think the anecdote is stronger than the science. If you rub it on and it goes away after 10 years of nothing else working and it happens the same day, that would be a pretty big coincidence unless it worked. But generally speaking, here was my response to somebody who said, they took Ivermectin and they got better so Iver mectin works. So I explained that I got COVID, I watched television, and I got better fairly quickly. That was pretty strong evidence there. All right, but we've reached a point where we used to say trust the science. And that actually sounds like a punch line, doesn't it

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