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I heard if you go to the edge of our flat earth, take a massive dose of ivermectin, inect yourself with bleach and dose yourself with light 1 billion times stronger than the sun you will be cured of everything. Though that cure might be death as you fall off the edge and evaporate due to the strength of the light, but, hey your cured right. This is an off usage of the items described above.

Can you link to any such studies?

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1720857911830736952

You’re gonna have to do your own searching. Lots of stories of people that have had success.

It is shocking how people here are willing to let millions die rather than consider any alternatives

> You’re gonna have to do your own searching.

You're the person who made the claim, which means you can provide the evidence to support it.

"Claims which are made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor

That’s garbage you found on the Internet that simply isn’t true.

Dr William Makis isn’t an oncologist either. He seems to be a radiologist. And this isn’t his only conspiracy theory.

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/no-evidence-that-...

There are, however, real studies. Perhaps it will be used in the future with other drugs.

https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-...

So, no. You can’t.

God I despise it when people do this.

Ah yes, "do your own research."

We did! When my oncologist team at UCSC declared my liver mets inoperable, we researched our way to a different group (at Sloan-Kettering) that had success with 75% liver resections and then the two groups worked together. So there is some do your own research that could be valuable - but it’s more along the lines of a second opinion, and there is no magic.

Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic that primarily targets worms and other invertebrates. It blocks an invertebrate-specific receptor, and is not known to have any other significant targets. It's great for that, and worthy of a Nobel prize. But it's not miraculous Jesus nectar.

I'm pretty sure there's no real study that says any such thing, although I would not be surprised if you could find some garbage pseudoscience saying otherwise.

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