Do you remember Ivermectin? The animal introductory drugs have been used very enthusiastically as pale off-covid treatments during the pandemic, with some feed bins eventually running out of stock. (I have to show you a picture of you and your horseone sign Requested I’m sure I’ll become a customer in 2021. ) If you haven’t heard since then, you existed blissfully outside Gaia of misinformation and intrigue that has come to define the medical outlook of the Maga world. Over the past few years, the popularity of ivermectin has only grown, and the drug has become the go-to treatment for almost all illnesses. Once a suspect was treated for COVID, and now aspirin is on the right wing.
In fact, Ivermectin never actually worked to treat SARS-COV-2 infection. Many of the first studies that suggested benefits were found to be flawed; Can’t trust. By 2023, series of Clinical test It had already proved that ivermectin did not reduce symbiotic symptoms or mortality. However, these discoveries were of little importance to fans. Anti-establishment antivirus– The treatment they believed they were suppressed by medical institutions. And healthcare skeptics seemed to make sense if ivermectin was sufficient to be rejected by mainstream doctors as a treatment for covid.
As a doctor who diagnoses cancer, I came across this idea of patients and discovered that some people use ivermectin to treat life-threatening tumors. Nicholas Hornstein, a medical oncologist in New York City, said he had the same experience. He said one in 20 of his patients asked about the medication. He remembers one woman who came to his office with a tumor visibly protruding from his abdomen. “I’ll always work now,” he says he told him as he tried to intervene.
There is a very modest basis in reality for the idea that ivermectin could be a cancer-fighting agent. the study Antiparacic drugs suggest that they may inhibit tumor growth, and at least one ongoing Clinical trials We evaluate the role of ivermectin as an adjunct to cancer treatment. However, the study enrolled only nine patients, and previous results show that only recent patients’ tumors have actually reduced. Scientific Summary. But these slight grounds for hope now support a towering mountain of hope.
Cancer is just one of many diseases that ivermectin is supposed to cure. According to all family pharmacies, a Florida-based company Promotes compounds For fans of Donald Trump Jr., Dan Bongino, Matt Getz and Laura Ingraham podcasts and shows, the drug has “anti-inflammatory properties that help to balance the immune system.” (The company did not respond to requests for comment.) The claims are more extreme in a vast Facebook group dedicated to the healing power of Ivermectin. The drugs are said to include Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, heart disease, diabetes, autism, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain fog, and other Alzheimer’s disease, including heart disease, autism, carpal tunnel syndrome, and brain fog.
As a drug that appears to have been censored by the elite – if not completely cancelled by awakened medicine and a big pharma, Ivermectin has become a symbol of medical freedom. It’s also Maga Shivverez. The country’s Republican-leaning portion helped to drive an astounding 964% increase Prescription of drugs Early in the pandemic, and GOP member of meeting They use their official posts to advocate for its benefits. Ivermectin is now available for purchase without a prescription in Arkansas and Idaho, and other states are considering similar measures.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, was a particularly strong supporter. In a 2021 book on the pandemic, Kennedy mentioned “large and overwhelming evidence” courtesy of Ivermectin, evoking its “amazing and life-saving effectiveness.” He also argued that the pharmaceutical industry, with the support of Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates, is engaged in a historic crime by trying to block its use. Similarly Jay Batacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health backing The conspiracy theory that the use of ivermectin was rejected by “its power” in an apparent ploy to facilitate approval of the covid vaccine. (Not everyone in the current administration is a fan. Oncologist Vinai Prasad publicly states before he became the FDA vaccine emperor. Controversy Kennedy’s views on ivermectin and earlier this year Called Use for Cancer “Version of Masking Rights on Airplane and Prayer to Lord Fauci”)) In response to questions about Kennedy and Batacharya’s current views on ivermectin, HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard said “we are following the latest scientific research on the treatment options for Covid-9 and other diseases.” She did not answer any questions about Prasad.
The idea of using antiparacic drugs as cancer treatments was already in place by the late 2010s, Skyler Johnson, a Utah radiation oncologist who studies medical misinformation, told me. In January 2017, a man with lung cancer named Joe Tippens started a dewormer called Fenbendazole. Daniel Lemoy, who suffered from Lyme disease, began taking ivermectin in 2012 after reading a paper on genetic similarity between humans and horses. Tippen continues to achieve The world’s fame of hopeless cancer patientsand Lemoy became an Ivermectin influencer during the pandemic.
Since then, questionable doctor gags have worked to enhance the reliability of pesticides within alternative medicine and anti-vaccine circles. The underlying pitches have become familiar over the past few years. Health experts can’t be trusted. The pharmaceutical industry is suppressing inexpensive treatments. And patients deserve the freedom to choose their own medical intervention. For the rest of the healthcare facility, the worldview that entails puts a strain on the relationship between doctors and patients. Johnson told me that many of his patients were skeptical of his advice, if not openly combative. One cancer patient accused Johnson of being biased when he failed to recommend ivermectin. He concluded that the drug was very inexpensive and effective, so Johnson would lose his job if everyone knew it. (Johnson told me that we would “provide patients the best possible treatment, regardless of their financial incentives.”) Ivermectin has become a large company in itself. Online pharmacies and wellness shops have won the desert fad, one offering parasite cleansing for $200 a month. Meanwhile, Dr. Fringe can charge thousands of dollars of patients with cancer or other diseases to prescribe such treatment.
Johnson’s own experience suggests that the cult of ivermectin is growing. He told me he saw his patient interest exploded since January when actor Mel Gibson went to Joe Logan’s podcast. I insisted His three friends defeated a tumor that had progressed with ivermectin and phenbendazole, among various other potions. “Things like this work, man,” Gibson said. Meanwhile, Ivermectin’s Facebook group, which includes nearly 300,000 members, can read posts by women with breast cancer I’m considering Ivermectin is used instead of hormonal treatment. Leukemia patients who give up chemotherapySee what happens“Anti-parasitics, or an aunt who is concerned I find it strange If the medicine may help her little nie with stage 4 cancer.
However, the defense of ivermectin is most intrusive in its total form, reimagining parasites (pathogens in which drugs are truly effective) as the secret cause of many other unrelated issues. In Facebook groups, members share images of what they are say These worms have been expelled from the body through treatment. (This phenomenon is completely reminiscent of another disease: Delusional parasites. ) 1 Recent Posts A bloody sphere that “falls into her mouth” was shown from the daughter of a stage 4 lung cancer patient. The commenters discussed whether this was a worm or something else. “Covid Vax clot?” I suggested. A few days later, my daughter gave us an update. Her mom went to see the doctor. She informed her that she was likely coughing part of her lungs.
The whole exchange offers a sad illustration of this delusional and hopeless time. Before it turned into a conservative treatment, Ivermectin was legally a mysterious drug for the poorest people on the planet. Since its discovery in 1973, it has become a major weapon in the fight against terrible infectious diseases such as river blindness and elephant disease. But now its substantial success seems to have produced a self-destructive fantasy.
Ten years ago, Ivermectin co-discoverer William Campbell and the Great Omura satellite were awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of their contributions to reducing human suffering. In his formal lecture To the Academy, Campbell provided some considerations on the simple science that caused treatment and its wide range of applications. However, his speech also included warnings that drugs that work very widely and very well-functioned risk being distributed too often. The more benefits such drugs bring, the more he told the Stockholm audience “the more they have to protect them from the risk of indiscriminate use.”
