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I rarely (maybe never?) saw any journalist say that all ivermectin is horse medicine. However, people did take horse medicine because of the similarly irrespons

I rarely (maybe never?) saw any journalist say that all ivermectin is horse medicine. However, people did take horse medicine because of the similarly irresponsible use of ivermectin as another weird political side-taking thing, the same way people bought UV products to use on themselves or ingested disinfectant. So, I think the criticism is mostly fair.

adflux 5y ago
Bunch of articles on CNN... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/21/us/mississippi-poison-control-covid-livestock-drug/index.html?utm_content=2021-08-21T15%3A30%3A21&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR1HmRyBcP9HODD-WlOIF_9FOYN0verTBVmbv_rro9Ri0z-o2TRdKEYhavg https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/21/us/mississippi-poison-con... for instance.
- happytoexplain 5y ago
  I'm aware of this article. She says "they're taking something called Ivermectin, which is an anti-parasite drug for horses", which isn't the whole story, but is also a reasonable sentence, since they were in fact taking a horse medicine called ivermectin and the same article explicitly states that there are human formulations and you can take those if your doctor prescribes them. So, I think it's unfair to use this as evidence of your assertion, or as rationale for the broader, usually politically-motivated bitterness about the media. I'm sure you could find some example of an article I haven't seen that committed the sin you claim, especially from somewhere as biased as CNN, but I would only have to take back the "maybe never?" part of my statement, and it may reasonably still stand.
  - adflux 5y ago
    https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839 https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839 how about the FDA? https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1448637553129648129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1448637878800502784%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fjoe-rogan-crushes-cnn-over-ivermectin-horse-paste-propaganda-gets-gupta-concede https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1448637553129648129?ref... Fauci/Acosta on CNN
    - kcplate 5y ago
      Joe Rogan just clubbed Sanjay Gupta over the head about CNN and their lying about ivermectin. Pretty brutal. Had Gupta denouncing his own network about it.

adflux 5y ago

Bunch of articles on CNN... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/21/us/mississippi-poison-control-covid-livestock-drug/index.html?utm_content=2021-08-21T15%3A30%3A21&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR1HmRyBcP9HODD-WlOIF_9FOYN0verTBVmbv_rro9Ri0z-o2TRdKEYhavg https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/21/us/mississippi-poison-con... for instance.

happytoexplain 5y ago
I'm aware of this article. She says "they're taking something called Ivermectin, which is an anti-parasite drug for horses", which isn't the whole story, but is also a reasonable sentence, since they were in fact taking a horse medicine called ivermectin and the same article explicitly states that there are human formulations and you can take those if your doctor prescribes them. So, I think it's unfair to use this as evidence of your assertion, or as rationale for the broader, usually politically-motivated bitterness about the media. I'm sure you could find some example of an article I haven't seen that committed the sin you claim, especially from somewhere as biased as CNN, but I would only have to take back the "maybe never?" part of my statement, and it may reasonably still stand.
- adflux 5y ago
  https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839 https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839 how about the FDA? https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1448637553129648129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1448637878800502784%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fjoe-rogan-crushes-cnn-over-ivermectin-horse-paste-propaganda-gets-gupta-concede https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1448637553129648129?ref... Fauci/Acosta on CNN
  - kcplate 5y ago
    Joe Rogan just clubbed Sanjay Gupta over the head about CNN and their lying about ivermectin. Pretty brutal. Had Gupta denouncing his own network about it.