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Joe Rogan Nods Along As Mel Gibson Claims His Friends Were Cured of Stage 4 Cancer By by ivermectin, fenbendazole (another animal dewormer), and methylene blue (a fabric dye) (www.mediaite.com)

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not defending idiots saying it cures cancer, but people dismissively calling ivermectin a "horse dewormer" when it's approved for human use for all sorts of parasitic diseases is something that grinds my gears. It actually is something of a wonder drug, just not for what these idiots keep claiming.

Methylene blue is an approved drug too, (the first synthetic drug, coincidentally) it's used for cyanide poisoning amongst other things. It's also a MAOI, which makes it dangerous to take with a bunch of common medicines.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The horse dewormer thing iirc comes from the fact that ivermectin is a prescription drug, and doctors obviously wouldn't prescribe it for covid. So people resorted to one of the very few ways you could still purchase it: as the horse dewormer variant.

Of course this version is much stronger and intended for horses, not humans. IIRC this led to a few hospitalisations and even deaths.

That's why when people advocate you should take ivermectin, the counter claim is that they're telling you to take horse dewormer, since that's the only way to get it. It's not out of a general 'disrespect' for ivermectin.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, but invermectin is also a very strong drug and even for its intended uses, it's rarely recommended to take it more than twice in a year. During covid days, people were taking it weekly.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weekly? I feel like people were taking it far more often than that. And massive doses.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My boss and the secretary were squeezing it into their applesauce every day.

The secretary was the same person who complained the doctors caught her trying to sneak it into her mom's hospital room and was trying to squeeze some in her mouth while intubated and said she needed to get her mom out of there to got a real Jewish hospital that would let her do it and cure her mom.

Both sad and funny stupid.

My boss would end up packing his entire family and their stuff from their house that would fit into his F150 truck and flee Florida to Texas for "More Freedom™"