Ivermectin fails another Covid trial

There is no way to gain the ear of people who are suspicious of your motives. At some point, you need to stop worrying about them and instead worry about how you're going to deal with it.

Ivermectin for COVID is an inherently political topic. It never made any sense as a remedy, and even its makers said not to use it. There was never any reason to accept that it might work. It was touted solely by people who wanted to avoid taking responsibility for their actions -- no masking, no vaccinations, no shutdowns, and would grasp at any straw for a miracle cure.

That "suspicion" long predates COVID, and applies to many other topics. That partisanship is a fact of life. The medicine here is long since settled -- no, de-wormer doesn't help unless you've got worms. Everything since then is waiting for people to stop insisting otherwise for purely ideological reasons.

I'd turn this around -- rather than telling me to find some way to be super-duper-nicer to them, how about them recognizing that they're Just Plain Wrong, again, and maybe stop automatically assuming every word out of my mouth is a socialist plot. Until that happens, nothing I say is going to help, no matter how I phrase it. Blaming my phrasing -- on the grounds that I'm the only one who might listen to you -- isn't going to help.