MAGA world is so fixated on promoting ivermectin I have to wonder who stands to profit and who is paying whom to tout it. You probably recall that the horse-worming drug took MAGA by storm as a “suppressed” therapy for COVID. Studies proved it ineffective. In 2023, it was baselessly hyped for flu and RSV.
Now, it’s back for cancer. After actor Mel Gibson told the apparently credulous podcaster Joe Rogan that three friends beat Stage 4 cancer with ivermectin and some other drugs, Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis decided that was good enough reason to spend $60 million of taxpayer money studying ivermectin.
Via The Washington Post:
“Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and he was talking about people that he was friends with and they overcame Stage 4 cancer,” DeSantis, a cancer survivor, said as she announced the move last month. “We should look at it, we should look at the benefits of it. We shouldn’t just speculate and guess.”
