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Joe Rogan (who has COVID right now btw, for what it’s worth, but not part of the point here) had on his show an ICU specialist who has developed some of the key protocols for treating COVID including with the use of Ivermectin:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D?si=p...

If you do open the podcast, know that it is very possible in Spotify to skip forward 15 seconds at a time to get past the many ads at the beginning.

Also on the show was evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein. Long story short, the guests suggest that some of the (allegedly compromised by money) authoritative medical bodies have been captured, and have helped industry by cherry picking studies to highlight the low quality ones, while the high quality studies and, more importantly, country wide actual results in practice in several large countries, they are downplaying. Again this is done by authorities who, it is claimed, may have a vested (direct or indirect) interest in suppressing a low cost drug that is bad for business.

The episode also covers the remarkable censorship around this.

They also mention that US hospitals are prescribing Remdesivir (sp?) even though the WHO does not recommend it. According to the doctor on the podcast Remdesivir costs $3,000 a dose.




Caleb Wallace, famous Texas Anti-vaxxer died from covid even though he took ivermectin.

Anecdotal evidence, but a powerful one to be sure.


Aussie guy overdoses on Ivermectin - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-02/warning-over-backdoor...

but pretty sure the excuse here is going to be a no true scotsman thing


So the existence of the no true scotsman construct is, to you, proof positive that any home grown, DIY abuse of a horse dosage of a medicine for which there are proper protocols for treatment of humans with human doses, automatically invalidates any and all uses of the drug even when properly administered? Who can possibly crack the wall you have constructed here? Nobody. Good job, I guess. Let me know if you ever think of anything that could change your mind.


Poison control centers in the US are experiencing high call volumes related to Ivermectin poisonings.


DIY administered without following proper protocols, in my understanding. I’m not an expert on this but DIY drugs sounds like a bad idea.


nobody should take anything on the rogan show at face value.


Stop the tin-foil hat nonsense. Joe Rogan is not an expert. He refused the vaccine. There is no one out to get you. Hundreds of anti-vax, pro-horse-dewormer patients are dying due to COVID.


Joe Rogan is (indeed) a self-professed moron, an assessment I agree with.

However, setting that aside, please bear with me here, he does sometimes have very intelligent and well informed people on his show. I think that is the case with this particular episode. It would behoove you or anyone to keep an open mind.


Yes, Joe Rogan is a moron. And those guests he has on? Chosen by a moron. It's morons all the way down.


Keeping an open mind that an unproven (for Covid) drug might eventually be proven effective is one thing; relying on an unproven drug or spreading unproven claims is another.




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