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A couple comments: first, you know full well that your comment is aimed at everyone who considered use of ivermectin, not just “horse paste formulations” - rebranding ivermectin that way was part of the misinformation pushed by CNN and a significant portion of the political left as the COVID culture wars heated up, and it remains wrong still. Ivermectin is correctly described as a Nobel prize winning drug, not “horse paste”. Second, a big reason some people resorted to those particular formulations is because politically biased pharmacy workers were refusing to fill prescriptions people legitimately got from their doctor, which again was a result of the COVID culture war pushed by people calling ivermectin “horse paste”. Third, tone down your aggression. Not only is it inappropriate for this place, but it just weakens your argument further.

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It's properly described as a Nobel winning treatment for parasites like worms.

Saying drug is a bit vague, and you lose the same plot as calling it horse paste. It's not some cure all, appointed by the nobels as good for all your ailments

Agree it isn’t some cure all. However at the same time, I think it is valid for people to speculate and experiment and see if it can work. Dismissing it entirely removes room for experimentation and I don’t think it is the place of media or pharmacists to trivialize it at the start. Just as people were looking at it as a panacea with certainty, I think people on the other side of the debate became almost religious with their single track vaccine worship, particularly when it came to them mandating it. Somewhere in the middle is balance and civil discourse.

> I think it is valid for people to speculate and experiment and see if it can work.

This wasn't a scientific study! People were eating horse paste. There were literally multiple overdose events reported.

You think it's... "valid" to go to your local farm supply store and chug down random drugs because someone on Facebook told you to?

Ivermectin. Does. Not. Work. To. Treat. Or. Prevent. Covid.

Vaccines do.

Those who refuse to treat with that reality are exactly the "horse paste set" I was referring to. And again, it will be decades before this mania you people have engaged in is understood.

Perpetuating flamewar will get you banned here. Internet snark tropes make it worse. No more of this, please—no matter how right you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn’t disagree with your first sentence. But calling it “horse paste” remains wrong. Referring to this as “mania” or referring to me as “you people” just makes you look unhinged and antagonistic, which is exactly what the actual mania in response to ivermectin was like.

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