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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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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When we are talking about its efficacy against covid, it is utterly irrelevant whether Ivermectin has some other use. For covid, it is a quack remedy.

Now, just to spell it out even more for you and some others who keep sidestepping the point:

Use of any treatment that is not efficacious for a given condition risks diverting people from the use of treatments that are efficacious. That means those people will be at higher risk of sickness and death, since the treatment they are taking doesn't work.

A treatment that is efficacious for some entirely different purpose is still not efficacious for some other condition, unless and until it is proven so by research.

Whether that different purpose involves horses, people or fucking marmosets is irrelevant. We're not talking about that. We're talking about a particular condition that has nothing to do with the on-label use.

So it's not clear to me what you are struggling with here. OTHER USES ARE IRRELEVANT TO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER IT WORKS FOR THE PURPOSE ACTUALLY BEING DISCUSSED. End of.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

And none of that negates that the "it's only for horses" people are wrong. This seems to be the main disconnect, you hear "actually, it's good for parasites in humans as well" as "burn vaccines take horse pills."