It was a troll that ultimately snowballed into a massive hoax (partially because the US president validated it).
Most major international health organisations have issued press releases warning against the use of ivermectin for anything except treating parasitic infections.
- US Food and Drug Administration
- US Center for Disease control and prevention
- Eurpean medecines Agency
- Work Health Organization
Even follow-up research triggered by the widespread confusion yielded no useful results for treating or helping any part of the COVID infection or recovery. Instead, there have been papers published on the massive uptick in emergency room visits from people falling ill after ingesting ivermectin in dangerous quantities.
The only thing we really learned is that the modern news landscape is in a catastrophic state, where outright dangerous lies pick up steam in order to cater to an increasingly divided and source-uncritical population. Critical thinking and journalistic integrity are gone, and I fear for the democratic process if even such fundamental factual errors can spread so faar among these "reputable" news organisations. If the organisations we are supposed to trust for worldly events are this broken, what is anyone ever supposed to believe or trust?
I don't even blame anyone for falling into it these days (i know a professor in nanotechnology who was swept up in 5G + COVID conspiracies). I get nausious when I think that this was PRE good LLMS. It's just a dumpster fire. May god save us all.
There’s a trainer in my gym who I frequently overhear recommending ivermectin rather than vaccines. Sadly I’m sure some people listen to him since, as a trainer, he appears to know something about health.
Most major international health organisations have issued press releases warning against the use of ivermectin for anything except treating parasitic infections. - US Food and Drug Administration - US Center for Disease control and prevention - Eurpean medecines Agency - Work Health Organization
Even follow-up research triggered by the widespread confusion yielded no useful results for treating or helping any part of the COVID infection or recovery. Instead, there have been papers published on the massive uptick in emergency room visits from people falling ill after ingesting ivermectin in dangerous quantities.
The only thing we really learned is that the modern news landscape is in a catastrophic state, where outright dangerous lies pick up steam in order to cater to an increasingly divided and source-uncritical population. Critical thinking and journalistic integrity are gone, and I fear for the democratic process if even such fundamental factual errors can spread so faar among these "reputable" news organisations. If the organisations we are supposed to trust for worldly events are this broken, what is anyone ever supposed to believe or trust?
I don't even blame anyone for falling into it these days (i know a professor in nanotechnology who was swept up in 5G + COVID conspiracies). I get nausious when I think that this was PRE good LLMS. It's just a dumpster fire. May god save us all.
... rant over. Here are some sources.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210806053833/https://www.fda.g...
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/109271
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-advises-against-use-iv...
https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-adv...