Florida is poised to become ivermectin’s new best friend.

Thanks to conspiracy theory-spouting social media influencers, the go-to treatment for horse worms and small-animal mange has leapt from tinfoil-hat COVID cure to all-around cancer treatment.

In Florida, where open hostility to science has friends in high places, some portion of the state’s $60 million Florida Cancer Innovation Fund grants will be spent investigating its potential to be a cancer cure.

As a breast cancer survivor, First Lady Casey DeSantis is a sympathetic messenger. No one hearing her talk about cancer research and the need to use some of that $60 million to study ivermectin could doubt her sincerity.

Sincerity is not science, however. And people with cancer need science .

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