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If rat poison and mold can save lives, why not a 'horse de-wormer'? If Ivermectin is in the same company as Penicillin, that's good company.
American Thinker ^ | 09/12/2021 | Bill Hansmann

Posted on 09/12/2021 8:24:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Much has been written about ivermectin lately — most of it untrue. People are mocking the use of a "horse-dewormer" in the treatment of COVID. Outlets like Rolling Stone and CNN take great pleasure in ridiculing its use. They have printed and promulgated a false story about overdosed ivermectin users in Oklahoma clogging emergency room admissions. Any sane person not associated with left-wing politics and journalism has to wonder why all this negative passion is directed toward a medication with a high degree of anecdotal success as a treatment for COVID.

Off-label use of prescription medications has been going on for as long as prescriptions have been written. If a drug has been declared safe by the FDA, it may legally be used and prescribed for medical conditions for which it was not originally intended. Testing of drugs has been stringent since the thalidomide disaster of the late '50s and early '60s when a drug administered to prevent nausea in pregnant women was discovered to cause the birth of malformed infants. These unfortunate babies were born with flipper-like appendages instead of normal limbs.

Following this debacle, the FDA and other agencies throughout the world became much more strenuous in testing for undesirable side-effects. Health officials have been rightly obsessed with preventing a similar medical disaster. Testing periods have been, in almost all cases, lengthened before a drug is deemed safe. The rapid development of the COVID vaccines is a notable exception.

The particular objection to the use of ivermectin is that it is widely perceived to be a medication for animals, particularly horses. The fact is that this medication was approved for use in humans in 1996 for various parasitic infections, so in proper dosages, it has been tested for human consumption.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; horsedewormer; ivermectin; penicillin
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CONSIDER:

* Warfarin, a rat poison, became Coumadin, an anti-coagulant that has also saved countless lives by preventing blood clots.

* Alexander Fleming's Petri dishes containing staphylococcus bacteria, gave us Penicillin, which has saved millions of lives.

So, If rat poison and mold can save lives, why not a "horse-dewormer"?

1 posted on 09/12/2021 8:24:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Mrs. Don-o; tellw; Huskrrrr; Jane Long; Freedom'sWorthIt; Freedom56v2; BDParrish; Phx_RC; cba123; ..

Ping for your interest


2 posted on 09/12/2021 8:24:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Botulism toxin might be one that seems popular with the Hollywood crowd.


3 posted on 09/12/2021 8:37:24 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: broken_clock
And Nasty Pelousi.

ANyone curious regarding Ivermectin, look up the term 'proteas inhibitor.

4 posted on 09/12/2021 8:41:52 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

protease ... tiered old fingers


5 posted on 09/12/2021 8:44:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: SeekAndFind

They denounce it because they were told to by Fauci.


6 posted on 09/12/2021 8:45:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

For those who think that government is benevolent and looking out for our good, or at least that government is a necessary evil and not a deadly malevolent evil run by secret societies:

we already have a cure for cancer (hint: it is another dog de-wormer) but the big drug companies will not allow it in the USA and government helps them keep it out of the country. It can be cheaply bought in other countries and is very effective. I know people here who are taking it and have put into full remission stage 4 cancers of the brain and liver. I checked with my pharmacist and they can make it but it would cost $411 for one pill; while from foreign country it costs $7 for a package of pills.

Do you think one politician would speak up about this? If they did they would be likely murdered or their children murdered.


7 posted on 09/12/2021 9:11:02 PM PDT by WLusvardi (Y)
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To: SeekAndFind

All i see is that for people sure saying they were desperate to get treatments out as soon as possible, they sure spent quite a bit of their energy demonizing and ridiculing ivermectin. And any other potential treatment that wasn’t a new treatment by big pharma.

They couldn’t get EUA for the experimental pharma treatments if they would have said hcq or ivermectin could be beneficial treatments.


8 posted on 09/12/2021 9:30:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/

I found this article very helpful. Going to pick up my 1% tomorrow. The store said low stock.


9 posted on 09/12/2021 10:23:41 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

This tying rat poison to Warfarin’s success and assuming it is true for ivermectin is the correlational fallacy also known as cum hoc ergo propter hoc (Lat., “with this therefore because of this”). This fallacy happens when you mistakenly interpret two things found together as being causally related. Two things may correlate without a causal relation, or they may have some third factor causing both of them to occur. Or perhaps both things just, coincidentally, happened together. Correlation doesn’t prove causation.


10 posted on 09/12/2021 10:28:53 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Ivermectin has been used for decades for people with scabies.


11 posted on 09/12/2021 11:22:13 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Yes but now it's Big Evil because they say so.
12 posted on 09/13/2021 12:26:43 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


13 posted on 09/13/2021 12:34:04 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: jonrick46

You missed the authors point .


14 posted on 09/13/2021 1:32:30 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: jonrick46

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/13/horse-dewormer-ivermectin.aspx?ui=641fc3a5eea714a818e5775d66ff646d0fc0f93cdcdfe2e45fec3282210096c6&sd=20140203&cid_source=prnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210913_HL2&mid=DM991838&rid=1263026675

Massive ‘Horse’ Lies About Nobel Prize Winning Treatment


15 posted on 09/13/2021 1:40:36 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/13/horse-dewormer-ivermectin.aspx?ui=641fc3a5eea714a818e5775d66ff646d0fc0f93cdcdfe2e45fec3282210096c6&sd=20140203&cid_source=prnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210913_HL2&mid=DM991838&rid=1263026675

Massive ‘Horse’ Lies About Nobel Prize Winning Treatment


16 posted on 09/13/2021 1:41:02 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just a question that I’ve been wondering about. Why was there a big switch for promoting ivermectin over HCQ?

I guess I missed the reason for the switch.


17 posted on 09/13/2021 2:19:51 AM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: SeekAndFind

Excellent headline.

Will have to remember for future use.


18 posted on 09/13/2021 2:40:21 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

You expect anything else from a vax pusher?

It wasn’t that the point was missed.

It was deliberately misrepresented.


19 posted on 09/13/2021 2:42:31 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: jonrick46
Very good. That and post hoc ergo propter hoc covers a lot of ground...
20 posted on 09/13/2021 4:41:03 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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