The AP is blaming the Mississippi Department of Health for the error.
To their credit, AP was engaging in less misinformation than other 'news' outlets. The article did not claim that Ivermectin is solely 'horse paste', but stated accurately that it comes in different formulations.
Yet this is quite the whopper. Even if the Mississippi Department of Health told you that, and I am not at all sure that they simply did not misinterpret the statement (creatively or otherwise) - surely the first thing you do is figure out whether these figures are at all plausible?
But as always with what Sowell calls the 'aha statistics', these are too good to check.
It took them 2 days (Aug. 23–Aug. 25) to correct, not 2 weeks. Look at the date on the before capture on archive.is, it says Aug 23 when you mouseover.
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The AP is blaming the Mississippi Department of Health for the error.
To their credit, AP was engaging in less misinformation than other 'news' outlets. The article did not claim that Ivermectin is solely 'horse paste', but stated accurately that it comes in different formulations.
Yet this is quite the whopper. Even if the Mississippi Department of Health told you that, and I am not at all sure that they simply did not misinterpret the statement (creatively or otherwise) - surely the first thing you do is figure out whether these figures are at all plausible?
But as always with what Sowell calls the 'aha statistics', these are too good to check.
It took them 2 days (Aug. 23–Aug. 25) to correct, not 2 weeks. Look at the date on the before capture on archive.is, it says Aug 23 when you mouseover.
Ah, you are correct. I should have paid more attention to that.