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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry to the people dealing with the fires in LA area but I have to admit that I laughed hard when I heard Mel Gibson's house burnt down during this interview. Absolutely hilarious to me.

[–] werefreeatlast 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Did he ever win an Oscar? Did he leave it in his house? I bet he didn't see that one coming.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

He definitely did nazi that coming

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

We are all going to die

[–] frog_brawler 4 points 9 hours ago

Methylene Blue is also fish medicine. It treats ich.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lemminary 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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!

[–] stoicmaverick 6 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] werefreeatlast 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

...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!

[–] Lemminary 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] werefreeatlast 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, en eapañol!

Don chu wan me laik Hay wan chu beibe! Don chu nid me laik Hay nid yu nau!

Aplausos!

[–] Lemminary 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] nixcamic 14 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

It doesn't do people's argument credit when they call ivermectin a horse dewormer. Yes, it can be used for that but it's a broad spectrum drug used for lots of things in humans and animals. Does it do what the alt right says? Probably not. But you look almost as dumb as they do when you call a WHO essential medicine horse dewormer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Calling it a horse dewormer came about because folks were buying the ones labeled as deworming agents at tractor supplies and similar locations. Sure it has other uses but its an easy jab at the folks drinking it like water for covid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

and as we all know, there’s no reason to pass up an easy jab

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

Just think of the opportunity cost of not taking the easy jab and you'll instantly see the appeal.

[–] dx1 7 points 10 hours ago

It is approved for use in humans, but its primary uses are all as an antiparisitic drug. And primarily worms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Nobody is claiming that it isn’t great for deworming horses and other related anti-parasitic applications. But it is provably not effective at combating COVID or cancer, and mocking people who conflate the legitimate uses for the imaginary uses under the guise of “its a WHO essential medicine” is morally correct.

[–] LovableSidekick 38 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Vaccines turned me into a newt!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] gloomytabby 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] simnaotalvez 17 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Just FYI, ivermectin is also a human dewormer, ir is very used in poor countries like here, Brazil

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[–] FlashMobOfOne 64 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I wish I knew how to get these motherfuckers to care about anything as much as they care about ivermectin.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

Joe Rogan is very much part of the misinformation media, he continuously gets guests talking crazy shit and he always nods along, yeah yeah, and people form some stupid reason just lap it up

Can we, for the love of fuck, put laws in placenthst require that as soon as a group of a certain size (say 50+) listens to you, that you are responsible for what you're saying and that you're required to ensure that your information is scientifically correct?

I'm sorry, but fuck free speech as so many people are raving about. Its the worst thing that has happened to the world since the Internet came on. All idiots now have a loud voice and the vast majority of humans apparently are very poorly equipped to weed out this bullshit.

No, your "pyramid curing cancer theory being blocked by big pharma" is NOT real, does NOT have a right to be heard, and is NOT a positive for humanity.

Yes, yes, we should be able to say what we want (within reason) but once you'd tart getting a following, that's it. No more, PLEASE. YOU HAVE YO START BEING TRUTHFUL AND FACTUAL. Why do we continue to allow people to lie their asses off to groups to manipulate others? Hell, even US presidents do this in insane amounts. Even Obama lied at least a little in like 25% of is statements? And he was a low outlier. Trump lies about 90% of the time at pants on fire levels and we're all fine with it. First amendment rules ftw!

Trump would never have been in power if we had something like this. Medical quackery would be gone as Dr Oz can no longer sell his snake oil bullshit. Churches would be gone, yikes... Imagine marketing if companies were required to be actually truthful about their products?

News organizations!

OMFG. So Fox news sues the US government to not be held to standards requiring them to be factual because first amendment.... So quite literally everything coming from them today is a lie. Its all bullshit. Why do we allow this and just laught at them? Why does nobody see the danger of just allowing news organizations to lie to the populace to divide the people, to get false ideas in their heads, to fill them with false hatred...

If Fox news and the likes would have been required to be truthful there would be no trump, the racial divide in the US would have been a whole lot less than it is today. And when I mean truthful I also mean the things they focus on, the insinuations, the pundits with their opinions.

Why why why, why do we allow any of this? What the fuck, world? The first amendment is not worth ending up in world was three because we MUST allow special interests to lie yo everyone, first amendment!

Start requiring that companies MUST be truthful. Presidents and governments MUST be truthful in claims to their citizens. Celebrity or someone with a following? You must be truthful in your claims.

We either start growing up as humanity or this will be our downfall. We are at the edge of the end of humanity as we have known it for centuries due to climate change (and have no doubt, it fucking will end everything we know today) but can't even have a basic discussion about how to stop or reverse this because special interests are allowed to use their news outlets to just scream that climate change is a hoax.

We just allow that. The theater is on fire and we can't even have a discussion on how to escape out because even though the flames are right there, the theater owner keeps screaming over everyone that all is okay, there is no fire, we don't have to escape.

Its gotten to the point where no meaningful discussion is possible anymore because we vant even agree about the basic facts in front of us anymore.

This has got to stop. The lies have to stop, we need basic facts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

how can anyone agree with free speech being the worst thing to happen in the world since the internet. seriously, how can anyone read that and agree?

the worst thing to happen in the world since the internet.....is free speech...... please read what you are saying BEFORE submitting a comment. good lord. if there was a lemmy worst of that single line should be pinned to the top

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

I mean... Death cures all 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

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[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 21 hours ago (8 children)
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[–] drunkpostdisaster 1 points 11 hours ago

I am glad his dumb ass friends will be gone soon

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sure, they were cured of cancer... until one day suddenly dropped dead, for no reason at all

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