FACTCHECK: No, Japan has not approved ivermectin as a COVID treatment, and it’s still using the Moderna vaccine

Poynter ^ | 09/15/2021 | Andy Nguyen

[SeekAndFind]

Ping for your interest

[ifinnegan]

“Association, Haruo Ozaki, has recommended the use of ivermectin on COVID-19 patients, neither he nor the organization is associated with the Japanese government.”

The “fact checker” does not show that any statement claimed it was associated with the Japanese government.

These “fact checkers” make stuff up and then “debunk” the made up stuff.

[beef]

“The Japanese professional association that recommended ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment has no power to enact policy changes for the country.”

So apparently the Japanese have proof that ivermectin is effective. Interesting.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Hmmm. So was the internet lying then, or now?

Impossible to tell anymore. I choose to believe no one but me.

[kiryandil]

Andy Nguyen is a contributor to PolitiFact based in Los Angeles. He also writes for Patch covering local and national news. Nguyen previously wrote for the Burbank Leader, Glendale News-Press and Thousand Oaks Acorn. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in media studies.

Interesting. This fact-check puppet doesn't seem to have a Twittsewer account.

That's a tell for a Media manipulator, like KFILE and Alex Leo...

[beancounter13]

I have gotten to the point of ignoring the word, “Fact-check”.

I have come to realize that:

FACT-CHECK = NARRATIVE ALIGNMENT

[kiryandil]

Andy Nguyen is a contributor to PolitiFact based in Los Angeles. He also writes for Patch covering local and national news. Nguyen previously wrote for the Burbank Leader, Glendale News-Press and Thousand Oaks Acorn. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in media studies.

[Maudeen]

In our neck of the woods Ivermectin 1% is in low supply or out of stock.

[ifinnegan]

BA in “media studies”.

Quite a scholar.

[volunbeer]

I would encourage everyone to apply the scientific method themselves when it comes to Ivermectin.

You cannot do that using US sourced media and proclamations, you have to read foreign media and look at results in other countries and trends.

If you do this, I fully expect that you will conclude as many of us have that it is effective. Another tell is that our own health authorities simply ignore and dismiss data that is contrary to their assertion (vaccine only). They will not even debate it on the merits.

One might also suggest that if Biden was smart and was not in bed with big pharma he would call for an operation warp speed for monoclonal anti-bodies instead of divvying up doses based on a political map. Isn’t that telling?

[mewzilla]

Related, from yesterday, on two different vaccines...

Floating material found in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials in Japan, but company says it's not contamination

[SeekAndFind]

RE: He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in media studies.

Is that a bad thing?

But then when I read the words: UC Berkeley, all sorts of flashing red alerts start coming to my brain.

[EEGator]

Is that different than Journalism?

[Jane Long]

Nothing to see, here....just a few CONTAMINANTS in these vials.

😱🙃

[Boogieman]

“While the chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, Haruo Ozaki, has recommended the use of ivermectin on COVID-19 patients, neither he nor the organization is associated with the Japanese government.”

The video didn’t claim anything about the Japanese government did it? So the claims in the video were true. This article is just trying to create a strawman to knock down, since I guess they couldn’t find any inaccuracies in the actual content of the video.

[kiryandil]

Is that different than Journalism?

Lipstick on a pig.  

[kiryandil]

But then when I read the words: UC Berkeley, all sorts of flashing red alerts start coming to my brain.

Yes, Berzerkeley - home of the Left Coast red diaper babies.

[EEGator]

That’s what I assumed.

[Widget Jr]

Instead of looking at what Dr Haruo Ozaki said, Poytner “fact checks” Instagram and social media posts about what he said. That the head of a major medical association in Japan supports using Ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid is not newsworthy. Those working in the news media are still baffled by why half the population does not trust them when they produce stories like this.