Comment Re:Who decides what is fake? (Score 1) 150
chowing down of horse pills
Like most things, there was a kernel of truth about it. There was a biochemical pathway that the drug could have affected in the replication of the virus. This led to some actual scientific articles that called for further investigation. There were people that were against spending resources at that time into further work on it, as resources were limited and this was not be best line to suppress the virus.
As it turned out, the horse pills didn't help, as that biochemical pathway was not a major method of virus replication, the majority of the virus replicated in the nasal passages. Eating the pills was not effective. I didn't hear of anyone trying to shove the pills up their nose, maybe that would have worked better (that's a joke).