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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 10:58 AM Aug 2021

No, Ivermectin Is Not Making People Poop Out "Rope Worms". The Truth Is Much Worse

The data is in: being double vaccinated reduces your risk of catching COVID-19 by up to 60 percent and your risk of dying by more than 85 percent. And so naturally tens of thousands of people have done the sensible thing and ... totally rejected the vaccine in favor of scarfing down obscene quantities of foul-tasting goo designed to kill parasitic worms inside horses.

Thousands of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers have gone to extreme lengths in recent months to get hold of ivermectin, a medication for diseases caused by parasites in horses. The idea is that this will cure or prevent COVID-19, an illness that is notably not caused by a parasite and affects horses very differently to humans.

It's got so bad that the FDA has had to issue a reminder that people are not horses. In fact, now the universe itself seems to have weighed in, with some of the conspiracists who managed to choke down the disgusting paste developing a nasty case of pooping themselves in public. Ignoring even this hint that maybe their chosen curative might not be the wonder drug they’d been told, ivermectin true believers have continued dosing themselves with dangerous levels of horse de-wormer – and while their COVID-19 is probably no better, some have noticed another side effect: the appearance of “rope worms”.

-snip-

Well, as you may have guessed from the title and general tone of the article so far, those … aren’t worms.

“Rope worms”, or to use the scientific term, “bits of intestinal lining that have been sloughed off because you’re ingesting poison and your body can’t handle it”, have a rich history in pseudo (which is to say, anti) scientific circles. The idea dates back to 2009, coincidentally not long after one Jim Humble started marketing what he called his “Miracle Mineral Solution”, or MMS. This, he said, could cure cancer, AIDS, malaria, autism – pretty much anything short of death itself. So why haven’t you heard of this miracle cure? Well, you probably have – but under a different name. You probably know it as industrial bleach.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-ivermectin-is-not-making-people-poop-out-rope-worms-the-truth-is-much-worse/

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No, Ivermectin Is Not Making People Poop Out "Rope Worms". The Truth Is Much Worse (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2021 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2021 #1
Now that's funny vanamonde Aug 2021 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2021 #15
"For he is the Kwisatz Shittapot!" Efilroft Sul Aug 2021 #23
It's their god emperor. plimsoll Aug 2021 #24
'Shat-Shai-Hulud' didn't show up until a later book. "The Children of Dune Ate Something Bad" jaxexpat Aug 2021 #27
There is a paywall, but I was able to still read it MagickMuffin Aug 2021 #2
We have a DUer promoting this shit. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #3
Have you reported their posts? n/t CousinIT Aug 2021 #4
It's tricky to alert, because each one cites some actual study...but the implication is ... lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #5
send this to a MIRT member Kali Aug 2021 #6
Good advice, my dear Kali! ♥ CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2021 #7
:-) Kali Aug 2021 #10
It is a long-time poster doing it obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #9
I will send a PM to EarlG Kali Aug 2021 #11
Thanks, Kali! obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #12
That poster has been obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2021 #16
How are they getting away with that? Dopers_Greed Aug 2021 #18
They're a little more subtle and crafty. More than one poster have been posting "vaccine doubt" lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #25
What those idiots ignore in posting their studies IronLionZion Aug 2021 #22
Yup! Cleverly cherry-picked posts, added together, intended to sow doubt and confusion. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #26
That's the same thing cholera does to your body: Itchinjim Aug 2021 #13
I'm only three more doses away from my goal weight. BannonsLiver Aug 2021 #17
A Judge in the Ohio Aerator Aug 2021 #19
Can we get Mr. Ed out of retirement Martin Eden Aug 2021 #20
Just a friendly reminder that anyone who hawks a cure and calls it a "miracle" - run away! Initech Aug 2021 #21
Wow! DemUnleashed Aug 2021 #28

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MagickMuffin

(15,933 posts)
2. There is a paywall, but I was able to still read it
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:14 AM
Aug 2021


And I say if these people want to ingest weird stuff into their bodies then I can't stop them and I don't want to stop their freedoms.

But to wrap my head around this weirdness is taking a toll.

They don't want to listen to the science but will listen to wackadoodles, should tell us everything we need to know about them.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
3. We have a DUer promoting this shit.
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:15 AM
Aug 2021

Multiple posts today extolling the wonders of Ivermectin.

This same DUer has right-wing views on climate change and other topics.

I suspect a troll.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
5. It's tricky to alert, because each one cites some actual study...but the implication is ...
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:36 AM
Aug 2021

"ivermectin is great" or "climate change is no big deal" or "vaccines are failing"

Taken individually, hard to say they are factually false. Collectively, looks like the kind of garbage I hear about from Facebook users, a barrage of insinuation and doubt.

Kali

(55,007 posts)
6. send this to a MIRT member
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:44 AM
Aug 2021

or to me in a PM, I will let them know the troll has been noticed. (they likely already know and are watching, but when others notice it can help tip decisions)

that is if it is somebody new, if it is somebody that has been here a while send a PM to EarlG directly.

obamanut2012

(26,064 posts)
9. It is a long-time poster doing it
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:49 AM
Aug 2021

And who has done it for a long time. It's just an obviously active disinformation campaign now. Very, very dangerous.

obamanut2012

(26,064 posts)
8. That poster has been
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:47 AM
Aug 2021

posting anti vax garbage for years, but it's now officially stepped into active and dangerous CV19 disinformation, and I share your concern.

Is there a way we can ask EarlG about this? It makes DU look very bad, and it also legit dangerous.

Response to lagomorph777 (Reply #5)

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
18. How are they getting away with that?
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:14 PM
Aug 2021

I've been modded for simply discussing Fox New's garbage talking-points-of-the-day.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
25. They're a little more subtle and crafty. More than one poster have been posting "vaccine doubt"
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:36 PM
Aug 2021

stuff. For example, pointing out the number of deaths of vaxxed people, without the context that they represent a tiny fraction of all COVID deaths. Or pointing out that Ivermectin has legitimate uses - without pointing out that none of those uses has anything to do with COVID. A series of posts, that collectively, coming from an apparently coordinated group, are intended to gradually sow confusion and doubt. Each, individually, is just barely not alertable.

IronLionZion

(45,411 posts)
22. What those idiots ignore in posting their studies
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:35 PM
Aug 2021

is how it's prescribed in human sized doses by qualified physicians who supervise and monitor their patients under controlled conditions. It is NEVER recommended to self-medicate with doses meant for large farm animals.

Liberals should know better. The poster I think you're referring joined us last year during the pandemic.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
26. Yup! Cleverly cherry-picked posts, added together, intended to sow doubt and confusion.
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:38 PM
Aug 2021

This looks like professional-grade propaganda.

Itchinjim

(3,085 posts)
13. That's the same thing cholera does to your body:
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 12:04 PM
Aug 2021

Makes you poop out the lining of your intestines.
I'll stick with the vaccines.

Aerator

(189 posts)
19. A Judge in the Ohio
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:19 PM
Aug 2021

A judge in Butler County Ohio just ruled that a hospital must give a patient the drug after being sued by the patient’s wife .Her husband is on a vent in ICU and demanded that he be given the drug .

Initech

(100,060 posts)
21. Just a friendly reminder that anyone who hawks a cure and calls it a "miracle" - run away!
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:30 PM
Aug 2021

There is no such thing!

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