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Originally Posted by Ab
RE: ivermectin and paxlovid
That's the thing. I'm no international organic chemist of mystery but even I can look at
C48H74O14
and
C23H32F3N5O4
and go "yeah, those are pretty fucking different molecules, like massively different, there's no way they do anything remotely like the same thing".
Of course, that's what big pharma wants me to believe!!!1
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To play devils advocate; compounds can have very different chemical makeup, but similar shapes at certain parts which allows them to interact with the same receptors and pathways.
Chemical makeup isn't really a good comparison.
For example here are two antihistamines, both have the same action of binding to H1 receptors:
- Fexofenadine: C32H39NO4
- Loratadine: C22H23ClN2O2
That being said; I'm not using that as a case to argue this particular point.