Just to be clear, these folks believe both:
1) Covid is fake and the vaccine is sketchy
2) Covid is serious enough that they must listen to the dumbest cranks on the internet and take livestock medicine without being sure what will happen if they do
The media figures who ran apologia for this awful and dangerous trend should have their careers defined by it, IMO.
Originally tweeted by Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) on August 23, 2021.
Guess who’s selling this snake oil?
An evolutionary biologist claimed Friday that, should the anti-malarial drug Ivermectin be proven effective against the coronavirus, it would moot the usage of and potentially the ability to administer the U.S. coronavirus vaccines currently active under the Food & Drug Administration’s Emergency Use Authorization.
Bret Weinstein – who previously made headlines after being pressured out of his biology professorship at Evergreen State College in Washington State for criticizing an anti-White “day-of-absence” – told Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today” that he has been analyzing the vaccines, and has summarily been censored for raising concerns about the shots and the medical establishment’s opposition to alternative treatments.
“[I]f Ivermectin is what those of us who have looked at the evidence think it is … then the debate about the vaccines would be over by definition, because the vaccines that we have so far were granted emergency use authorization,” Weinstein said, noting that the coronavirus vaccines are not formally “approved” treatments by the FDA and instead administered under the rarely-delineated category of EUA.
The National Institutes of Health, has said that indeed “Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19 virus] in cell cultures,” but that pharmacokinetic studies suggest “doses up to one-hundredfold higher” than approved anti-parasitic dosages in humans are needed to attain adequate treatment of coronavirus complications.
On “Tucker Carlson Today,” Weinstein went on to lament that the U.S. and its federal medical bureaucracy appears to have no long-term plan to fight coronavirus, other than the potential for an unclear number of regular “booster shots” of the current COVID vaccine.
That story appears on the Fox News website.