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