What's with the bizarre campaign against ivermectin? It's not just that the FDA has put out a quackish tweet (shown here by AT contributor Dr. Brian Joondeph, M.D.) scolding viewers that they are not horses or cows. That's in ref...
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'It's now a lot of nonsense about mass injuries from people who take the horse dewormer form of the drug on their own to beat COVID, as if there is anyone out there advocating such an improper use of the medicine.'
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'One problem: The story is fake.'
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'So the news outlets have made huge errors in judgment and trashed their own credibility based on that now-denied report they could have gotten the answer to, and it was one after another running themselves off the cliff, none of them really checking, all of them taking the word of one doctor, who could have had any agenda. I suspect CNN might have run a version on the story based on multiple claims on Twitter and the fact that a Google search with CNN, Oklahoma, and hospital keywords turns up with CNN's name in news pickups from others such as Yahoo!, but all clicks to the story come up empty. If so, it's got to be bad.'
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'It follows from another claim that multiple news agencies manipulated a photo of famous podcaster Joe Rogan, who had COVID and took a people-version of ivermectin, prescribed off-label by a doctor, and was cured quickly of his illness. The news photos showed a picture of his face with a yellow filter and slight blurring in a bid to make him look kind of green and sick. The original photos showed him looking perfectly healthy.'
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'There's some kind of campaign ramping up against ivermectin, a drug whose inventor won the Nobel prize in 2015 for the first version of, and which has been endorsed by the Japan Medical Association, as well as in many studies which have found it to be an effective early treatment for COVID. There's no President Trump involved, so it's something very funny going on.'