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Interesting article! I have heard of Ardis when I tried looking up COVID videos on Rumble due to YouTube censorship and found many interviews with him as a guest. It's actually interesting, because from what I can tell Ardis' strength lies in the fact that his interviewer knows absolutely nothing about the topic presented to them, and thus relies on the trust that what Ardis states is indeed correct.

But watching a few of those Remdesivir videos I found it really stunning how much Ardis himself was misinterpreting the studies. Ebola is a serious illness with no known cure aside from attempting monoclonal treatment. The Ebola study utilized monoclonals that are considered standard use vs Remdesivir and a new cocktail of monoclonals. When we take into consideration that these results are relative, it doesn't quite come as a surprise that Remdesivir serving as the only nucleoside analogue did worse than the monoclonals. However, Ardis and his naive interviewer are led to believe that this means that Remdesivir was extremely toxic which is difficult to actually argue- it only did worse for a disease with no known effective treatment. But of course his interviewer is usually left astounded by these findings!

And quite frankly the whole concept of Remdesivir being a snake peptide is absolutely absurd, especially because, like I stated, it's a nucleoside analogue and thus looks like a nucleoside (it mimics adenosine for those curious). All this tells me is that many of these people couldn't even be bothered to look at the structure of the drug they are talking about! Maybe it's because I've been leaning more towards the pharmacology/medicinal chemistry aspect that I am more aware of these aspects but I'm still astounded by how many people don't even bother looking up structures!

Well, enough of that rant! It's interesting that Ardis came your way. He appears to me to be akin to many people we are seeing who have gotten a taste of notoriety and are riding this horse as long as they can.

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I did two video rebuttals of Ardis' theory from the angles of clinical presentation of patients and his lack of realization that if it were in the drinking water, everyone in a household would become ill. Infants dependent solely on water for their formula would be dying at a high clip. (Just to name a few issues.)

Part 1

https://rumble.com/v10swxs-is-snake-venom-in-the-water-supply-causing-covid19-part-1.html

Part 2

https://rumble.com/v10u8nx-is-snake-venom-in-the-water-supply-causing-covid19.html

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