I heard the earth was flat only a few months ago too—it does not make either claim any more likely to be true.
And FWIW, I have seen many ivermectin articles on HN (check my past comments), and all seem to say roughly the same thing, so they get rather annoying in my feed at this point.
I would make the claim to be constantly evaluating the validity of statements I have not heard, and may never hear. This may sound like nonsense, but the flip-side of censorship is not excess of information but curation. If my news sources are trustworthy, then they are filtering useless information for me, while hopefully not belying my trust by censoring important information.
To the other poster, my argument was supposed to be obvious: it was intended to be a simplified example to elucidate concerns by comparison.
And FWIW, I have seen many ivermectin articles on HN (check my past comments), and all seem to say roughly the same thing, so they get rather annoying in my feed at this point.