• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    I wish I knew how to get these motherfuckers to care about anything as much as they care about ivermectin.

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    What’s up with Mel? Does he have Parkinson’s or something similar? Or is he just strung out on cocaine? He was insanely, constantly twitchy the whole interview.

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    Well at least methylene blue is harmless. I used to put it in my coworker’s coffee to turn their piss blue.

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    Fabric dye? Sometimes I wish we hadn’t done all this testing on animals to make sure this stuff was safe to consume…

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    It’s like these people got trolled by 4chan and believed every single word they said.

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        The government is hiding the fact that homemade bath salts and huffing spray paint kills most cancer patients.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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        Maybe convince them that they can get pure cat pee and mix that with bleach to create chloramine.

        When inhaled, it can cure them of any respiratory illness. Permanently!

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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        I can confirm it will not. All it will do is leak a bit and then you spend years trying to figure out which specific spice has a bit of food coloring on the bottom because every now and then you find a green circle on the counter.

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    When numbnuts have no power in society, it’s often dismissed as a fool’s errand to try to counter their crazy claims. But I think we all need to be countering the crazy at all times, not just when the biggest crazies are enjoying power and reach. Otherwise, we get Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson talking about curing terminal cancer with animal dewormer and Donald Trump winning a second term and appointing RFK Jr. to delete vaccines from history.

    Horse/barn door situation, but still. It can always get worse.

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      That reminds me of some obscure bit of dialogue in some scifi show or something, where someone tries to insult another person by something but then they’re not offended, just autistically go “brains are supposed to be wet” for something.

      Ugh it’s not wet though but something along those lines. Ugh this is gonna bother me all day

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Why can’t they take like acute doses of actual poison? Why is it always this bullshit? Don’t be a pussy, drink the bleach, bitch!

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      It’s okay when it’s clearly labelled a theory. They can be entertaining thoughts. Some may even prove true some time, but it should be clear a theory is not a fact and should not be treated as such.

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      To be fair, Mel Gibson has been a racist, homophobic piece of shit for decades now. The fact that he’s waded into right wing conspiracy and grift, should be a surprise to no one.

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    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.

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      I personally know/knew one of the main guys promoting Ivermectin in the news and on rogan. It was 100% a grift and he knew it. The point wasn’t the medicine but subverting public health efforts. That is why it is derided as horse dewormer.

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      People are literally buying it from harbor freight when doctors won’t prescribe it. That’s why people say horse dewormer. It is literally horse dewormer they are taking.

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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      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.

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      It actually is something of a wonder drug

      And it worked wonders on COVID patients who actually had parasites in the “throw everything at the wall” period. Word got out some patients had improved because of it. It became a whole thing because doctors didn’t got the same results with ivermectin in others trials, probably because their patients didn’t have parasites, and ruled it out as the COVID cure. Arm chair viral experts refused to believe it and made it a conspiracy, and from there on became a cornerstone of anti vax and right wing politics. Of course right wing commentators now make it the cure for cancer.

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      The fun fact about Methylene Blue that always is a hit with students is it also turns your pee a green/blue-green color.

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      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.

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          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™”

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      Yes it led to the first TB treatments or something didn’t it? I completely can’t remember, does it also have a link to the development of antidepressants? Somebody help me out, my undergraduate degree was a long time ago now.

      Edit: oh yeah, it’s a MAOI, you literally wrote that in your post.

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    obligatory fuck daily mail but this screen was posted to a discord I’m in and I laughed then, I’ll laugh again now

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    There were so many calls to “Let Mel come back,” promising that his outbursts weren’t a real problem anymore and he was on the way to recovery. Nope. Don’t believe that shit. Second chances are dead now, thanks to cunts like him and these other fucks that have squandered the goodwill of the people. Gibson isn’t done doing harm. He will be a piece of shit until he dies, which can’t come soon enough. Fuck him and the entire tribe of fuckwads that spout the same and similar nonsense. They are a blight on humanity.

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      tribe of fuck wads

      You realize you’re talking about 80 million people?

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        What’s your point? Antivaxxers are fuckwits who are trying to kill the innocent. They’d dispute that, but they don’t even understand how vaccines work, so what chance could they have of understanding cause and effect generally? And therefore, why should anyone give a shit what they have to say or what they think?