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      Yes and it treats fungal infections in tree frogs. I’m not trying to say that these medicines work the way that Gibson is saying they do, but the whole “horse dewormer” talking point is dishonest as it makes it out like these medicines have only a single use. I doubt ivermectin treats covid or whatever. But anytime someone just throws out these minimizing points as if it’s impossible to use things in more than one way only makes me doubt the validity of their claims.

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        Having more than one use is irrelevant as to whether it is efficacious and safe in a specific other use.

        I doubt ivermectin treats covid or whatever.

        It doesn’t, any more than hitting your patella with a lug wrench treats covid.

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    When numbnuts have no power in society, it’s often dismissed as a fool’s errand to try to counter their crazy claims. But I think we all need to be countering the crazy at all times, not just when the biggest crazies are enjoying power and reach. Otherwise, we get Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson talking about curing terminal cancer with animal dewormer and Donald Trump winning a second term and appointing RFK Jr. to delete vaccines from history.

    Horse/barn door situation, but still. It can always get worse.

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    What is this obsession some people have with ivermectin? They don’t believe in the moon landings but they think ivermectin has magic powers.

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    There were so many calls to “Let Mel come back,” promising that his outbursts weren’t a real problem anymore and he was on the way to recovery. Nope. Don’t believe that shit. Second chances are dead now, thanks to cunts like him and these other fucks that have squandered the goodwill of the people. Gibson isn’t done doing harm. He will be a piece of shit until he dies, which can’t come soon enough. Fuck him and the entire tribe of fuckwads that spout the same and similar nonsense. They are a blight on humanity.

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    What’s up with Mel? Does he have Parkinson’s or something similar? Or is he just strung out on cocaine? He was insanely, constantly twitchy the whole interview.

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    let’s hope everyone who still listens to Joe Bogan follows Mel G’s advice when they get cancer.

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    It’s like these people got trolled by 4chan and believed every single word they said.

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        I can confirm it will not. All it will do is leak a bit and then you spend years trying to figure out which specific spice has a bit of food coloring on the bottom because every now and then you find a green circle on the counter.

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        The government is hiding the fact that homemade bath salts and huffing spray paint kills most cancer patients.

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        Maybe convince them that they can get pure cat pee and mix that with bleach to create chloramine.

        When inhaled, it can cure them of any respiratory illness. Permanently!

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    Fabric dye? Sometimes I wish we hadn’t done all this testing on animals to make sure this stuff was safe to consume…

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    Well the blue color actually proved valuable in spinal reconstruction. (AFAIK)

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      Huh. Apparently it’s been found seemingly helpful with pain management, trauma reduction, disinfection, cleaning, and tumor detection when used as a dye. I wasn’t thorough so I didn’t find anything about spinal reconstruction specifically but its use is probably related in one of these ways in some procedures. So TIL.

      Still not a cancer-killer. Sorry, Mel!

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        It’s also used as a topical antibacterial agent in wound care (source: am wound care nurse), but ya, not cancer.

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        Sorry, Mel!

        I’m not sorry about anything that happens to that bigoted fucker.

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          TL;DR: When injected intravenously, it prevents surrounding tissue damage by preventing the flood of ATP from binding to neighbor cell “death receptors”. It replaces oxidized ATP that needed to be injected directly on the injured spine and had other side effects. At one cost: temporarily turning turning your skin blue. Neat!

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            …ah yes that new Korean song is all the rage!

            A-T-P ATP ATP ATP ATP! Don’t you want me like I want you baby! Don’t you need me like I need you now!

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              Yeah! That’s what immediately came to mind when I first heard the song because in Spanish it’s APT and I used to love biochem many years ago. lol

              E: Apparently my dyslexia got the best of me and it’s also ATP in Spanish and I’m misremembering.

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      I can believe that, but thinking a thing that’s helpful in spinal surgery then taking it when you have the cancer is… it’s pretty fucking dumb. Like… penicillin has saved my life about 5 different times because I have had chronic pneumonia, but I’m not about to down it if my leg breaks. These aren’t similar issues.