Tylenol maker Kenvue denies the connection allegedly made in the report, which is expected to be published by the Department of Health and Human Services this month.
There are a couple of historical examples that escape my soft brain, but ivermectin is a big one.
Basically, during COVID-19, some rural doctor in India published a paper on Ivermectin reducing COVID fatalities. Which is great!
…Because Ivermectin is a livestock dewormer. It’s an anti-parasitic, so it reduced the chance of co-infection with parasites in rural India (which would weaken your immune system so you’re more likely to die of COVID).
But the anti-vax crowd lost this nuance in the paper and ran with this as an alternative treatment, misinformation that still persists today.
Why will they be politicized?
There are a couple of historical examples that escape my soft brain, but ivermectin is a big one.
Basically, during COVID-19, some rural doctor in India published a paper on Ivermectin reducing COVID fatalities. Which is great!
…Because Ivermectin is a livestock dewormer. It’s an anti-parasitic, so it reduced the chance of co-infection with parasites in rural India (which would weaken your immune system so you’re more likely to die of COVID).
But the anti-vax crowd lost this nuance in the paper and ran with this as an alternative treatment, misinformation that still persists today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#COVID-19_misinformation
…That’s whats about to happen.
Tylenol (acedomediphine) will be forever linked to causing autism, true or not. No one amount of refutation is going to kill the meme.
And Folinic acid, whether its a provably effective treatment or not, is not going to get touted by the anti-vaxx crown who ‘believe’ in its efficacy.