He missed the chance to get sponsorship from Snap-On Tools.

Its interactions can be very far from harmless.

My money’s on indiscriminate use of psychoative drugs, and general lack of mental discipline.

Watch the physicists when they’re talking to someone intelligent. Much better.

And what about that number makes them right?

Also it’ll burn the lining of your bladder and make you piss blood. And dissociatives including ket are nasty, dirty drugs that cause lots of mishaps when used in non-clinical settings.

Was your boss dodging some creditors, by any chance?

And taking it along with various psychedelic drugs can extend the trip, often far beyond what any sane person would want. MAOIs inhibit one of the pathways the body uses to clear those drugs from the bloodstream. Instead, they hang around.

There’s a depressingly non-trivial number of doctors who aren’t above making a quick buck through quackery.

Are ivermectin’s feelings hurt when it’s disrespected? Or does it kind of get off on it? And why are all these people posting at great length to remind us all that it has some other use than the one we are talking about?

I’m a goy married to a Palestinian, but I’ll be at your side in this fight. We can argue about the other stuff over drinks.

That seems like a boiling-the-ocean solution, comprehensively replacing the government with a new, better (and unproven) one.

What can be done that’s actionable incrementally, starting right now?

The ignoramuses I encounter seem more angry or depressed than they are blissful.

Disinformation should not be regarded as protected speech, any more than a fraudulent product claim or a defamatory comment is. Same goes for statements intended to incite stochastic terrorism, or specific and actionable death threats, or foreign propaganda emanating from troll farms.

Unless you are so stupid as to do nothing but repeat such malicious content, you free speech rights are not infringed by controlling malicious, false, toxic targeted claims such as those. And you are free to moan about it all you like, but it is becoming an existential matter for the preservation of democracy that such content is dealt with decisively. We’re in an information war, and the people originating that bullshit are this generation’s Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose.

Russian governments of all ideologies have resorted to shitting in the well. It seems a matter of cultural pride to them.

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.

Why are you so invested in defending the reputation of ivermectin as a parasite treatment? That’s not what anyone else is discussing here.

The reality remains that, if an ineffective treatment is used in place of an effective treatment, people are going to get sick and often die. And whether it’s effective for some other use is irrelevant.

Safety’s a good thing, but efficacy is what’s really needed. And it has been proven to have no efficacy for the conditions it is being hyped for. Absolutely none.

Eating rice pudding is safe too. It’s not an effective treatment for covid either.

What’s not safe is when someone fails to resort to an effective treatment because they’re instead fooled into using one that does nothing. And that’s what’s happening with ivermectin.

See, it’s more natural since horses are natural and it’s used on them.

Medical professionals who promote quack uses should not only be mocked, they should have their license to practice terminated.