I have more good news. My dad has inoperable, untreatable brain cancer. He's part of a clinical trial for a new cancer drug. His initial prognosis was 1 year left. That was 6 years ago. This drug is going to revolutionize cancer treatment. Science is amazing
Ivermectin is categorically NOT horse paste. It's an anti-parasite medication on the WHO's list of Essential Medicines, it earned the two primary discoverers the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine and has saved hundreds of millions from River Blindness since its approval in the mid-1980s.
For the vast majority of people Ivermectin would have been of no use as a treatment or a prophylaxis for COVID-19, but it at least wouldn't have done any harm without extreme overdosing, and its cheap. But in the case of any COVID patient with undiagnosed Strongyloides (that's threadworm for most of us), treatment with corticosteroids would be fatal in 90% of cases. 370 million people worldwide (estimated) are infected with threadworm but undiagnosed. Ivermectin prevents that.
Science- real science as opposed to "The Science(tm)" we were encouraged to follow like sheep- is a hell of a lot more nuanced than journalist like to make out, and far too nuanced for the attention span of the typical news-viewer or newspaper-reader. As for the attention span of the typical politician and his advisors, don't make me laugh.
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u/Lessllama Jan 01 '25
I have more good news. My dad has inoperable, untreatable brain cancer. He's part of a clinical trial for a new cancer drug. His initial prognosis was 1 year left. That was 6 years ago. This drug is going to revolutionize cancer treatment. Science is amazing