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> Likewise CNN made fun of Joe Rogan for taking Ivermectin because we don't want general public to experiment with alternative medicine. It's better to just sti
by coolso 5y ago
> Likewise CNN made fun of Joe Rogan for taking Ivermectin because we don't want general public to experiment with alternative medicine. It's better to just stick to the proven stuff.
Ivermectin is not alternative medicine. Ivermectin used for COVID symptoms is off-label use.
CNN made fun of him because he dared stray from the official narrative and he dared try doing something through his own research rather than doing exactly as the government and media told him to do.
- rootusrootus 5y agoIf there's one thing I've learned over and over during this pandemic, it is that "do your own research" is immediately followed by a train of bullshit that only demonstrates extreme susceptibility to confirmation bias.
- nomel 5y agoI did my own research and bought and wore masks when the CDC was saying they weren't needed. There was definitely "bullshit" involved there.
- sampo 5y agoThe first Western people protecting themselves with face masks, those were "do your own research" people. Before April 2020, the Western mainstream claimed/lied that masks don't work.
- CRConrad 5y agoFor values of "Western" equal to "the USA"?
- Gibbon1 5y agoIt's been a total parade of biases. In particular normalcy bias is a lot stronger than I'd thought it was.
- coolso 5y agoAgreed. We should only ever listen to Authority Figures like CNN, the government, Snopes and Twitter. Bullshit-train-free.
- jacquesm 5y agoShow me some of this research of Joe Rogan, I wasn't aware that he had ever done any?
- robbiep 5y agoAnd it’s amazing how his own research throws the vaccine out whilst going headlong for monoclonal antibodies, and the cognitive dissonance that makes processing this so deafening is that one is new and there are no long term trials and… the other doesn’t get the same treatment by his brain? I also love the blinkered trope he continues to roll out that public health doesn’t tell everyone to exercise and not smoke and eat healthily. Which it does constantly, but he can’t see this because he can’t compute that the magnitude of the response to covid drowns out the baseline public health messages that have been in widespread adoption and classroom teaching for 30 years. As much as he’d like to be, he’s not an independent thinker - him saying ‘I hate tribes’ doesn’t make it so - he’s part of tribes as well