Why the right still embraces Ivermectin

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Simple enough:
Religion primed them to believe nonsense while removing their ability to parse fact from fiction. So now they're both rubes and willing targets for any grifter that has the right blend of charisma and hate that they associate with their religious upbringing.

I've heard that this mess started because Ivermectin was tested in the developing world as a treatment for Covid, and that some of those who took it reported "feeling better."
Except in those parts of the world, many many people have untreated, festering parasite infestations like hookworm and many others. So yeah, when they take an antiparasitic compound, they start "feeling better," whether they have Covid or not.
- Well the right wing is pretty wormy so
  
  Maybe that's what killed RFK Jr's brain worm.
- I would like to point out that I absolutely believe people on their 4th day of COVID might take an anti-parasitical and start feeling better than they have in years.
  One, they naturally got over covid.
  Two, their rural ass did in fact have some worms.
- That doesn't explain why Americans bought into it.
  
  Americans have education levels of the developing world. Probably worse, since many worship ignorance.
  
  Social media circus got a hold of the "results," doctors said "No, that's dumb," and then the terminally contrarian went off the deep end with "what are they hiding from us!?!?" As they do every single time a quick and cheap "cure" is debunked.
- Actually I heard that physiologically improbable levels of the drug inhibited viral replication in cell culture. It is a common phenomenon that many things apparently inhibit pathogens in culture but are ineffective or harmful in an intact organism. Often this is because physiologically impossible concentrations are used in cell cultures. Often in concentrations that interfere with biology and metabolism of the cells in culture to the extent that viruses can't replicate in the cells rendered moribund by the high concentrations of the substance being tested.
  
  It is a common phenomenon that many things apparently inhibit pathogens in culture but are ineffective or harmful in an intact organism.
  It brings to mind this XKCD.
  
  Like injecting bleach...
- also the right is taking horse and cattle paste, which is much higher doses, and is dangerous for people. also only useful for intestinal parasites, the ones that enter other organs need other anti-parasitic drugs. in low doses, medically it is also used for rosacea and perioral dermatitis topically.
- I would love some more information on this to counter my antivax family.

It's no great achievement to believe facts. Believing flagrant bullshit takes far more effort, and therefore can be used as a sign of loyalty.
Anyway, they're too stupid to tell truth from lies.
- So most of ivermectin followers came from Rogan being an unintelligentual influencer with followers. I'm curious now that he has finally started finally breaking from Trump's suck my cock like a proper republican rhetoric, if maybe he'll start to recognize and bash these 1/100 fake science bullshitrrs they've gone out of their way to promote their ludicrousness we will be better off. It's sad to say, but America can be saved by ~10 influencers or Rupert Murdock not being a murderous piece of shit for 1 day. That said. If you know Murdoch's family, tell them they should all hang for me. Every member of that family is guilty of murder. Not just 1 murder either. Millions. If they want their freedom, they need to do the right thing.
  Just because they didn't fire the gun, doesn't mean they were not behind it. Just about every hate crime in America in the past 15 years is Fox's fault. If Murdoch cared about his family he'd shut down Fox and never set foot in America again.
  9/10 school shootings, I can safely say. Murdoch. Hang the fucker
  
  If anyone’s pinning their hopes on Rogan doing anything sensible… well, have fun with that.

Same reason they're still hung up on Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton: the nazi grifters keep recycling the same material.
If anything, they're going further and further back, reviving fringe conspiracies, so that it seems like the plot to oppress them has continuity throughout history, even since ancient times. (Of course, the problem with that is having to skirt around the OG nazis, who did the same thing with essentially the same conspiracies.)
- To them nothing exists before Reagan, except when they want to bash Carter as the caveman that Reagan took America from.
  Go back any further, and they have the only president who was never elected (Ford) or the first president to resign in disgrace (Nixon), although every Republican president since Nixon should have resigned, or in the case of one, arrested, tried, and executed.
  
  Oh yeah, I was saying more broadly, but you're right.
  Also, reading your reply made me realize something: this existential apocalyptic danger that they use to justify their extremism, it's both a recent emergency that will destroy society if we don't act now and an ancient Satanic plot that has existed since time immemorial.

I'm fine with the "let them destroy themselves“ angle but they're also in power. Lawsuits are currently in motion that would revoke FDA approval for common vaccines. Revocation means nobody (except the rich) gets them.
- Cool; I’ll find a way to emigrate to Canada or the EU or something. I’m a skilled software engineer with specialization in devops, automation, data pipelines, and test framework design. I will leave and take my skills with me, as a refugee if I must. And I know for damn sure a lot of people I know with similar levels of skill who will do the same.
  
  Congrats

Because they’re fucking stupid. Let them shovel it in their faces and improve the gene pool. who the fuck cares?

Let them eat that stuff by the spoonful. You cannot convince them otherwise, anyway. If they survive, good for them, if not, they just claim it was gods will.
- If not, good for humanity.

My mother, born and raised in Norway, fucking believes this shit about Ivermectin. Line... Why???
- Its a cancer that is spreading across the world. My dad thinks covid isn't real but also ivermectin is a wonder drug that the government tried to hide for some reason.
  
  I think it's, at least partly, related to lead, and the amount of lead they inhaled in the 70's and 80's.
  I also remember my mother telling me "don't believe everything you read on the internet"-talk all throughout the 90's. I tell her this now, and she literally told me last week that I must stop reading anti-propaganda...... 🤣🤣 I asked her what that is, and she has no way of describing it, just talking about anti-propaganda. So, facts?
- My mother passed away last summer. While cleaning out her house we found a half used bottle of ivermectin injectable solution. Like I’m pretty sure my mother bought vet supplies and was injecting herself.
- They've forgotten all the things they chanted to us aa kids; "don't believe everything you read online."
  Especially if she can sort of read English but isn't too proficient, I've noticed that type goes harder for all the shit.
  And like someone pointed out, there's a pretty well established pipeline from woowoo spirituality into right wing garbage.
  
  My mom reads clickbait titles and thinks she knows the entire story.
  A few years ago there was a clickbait title that Cracker Barrel was closing their restaurants, and she told me they were going out of business. I found the story, and it said that they were closing a few stores, but they were opening up a whole lot more. Cracker Barrell wasn't going out of business. All she had read was the title, and concluded they were completely going out of business.
  To this day, whenever we pass a Cracker Barrell, she either repeats that she read they were going out of business, or she wonders aloud when they be closing that location, since they are going out of business. When I try to correct her, she says she read it, and "You think you know everything."
  No, Mom, I don't know everything, but I know not to believe clickbait headlines.
  On the positive side, she has always despised HitlerPig with a white-hot passion. She hated him long before he ran for president anyway, but she became really serious after the Pussy-Grabber tape. After that, for a couple of years, just the mention of his name would bring on a 20 minute rant, starting with "I dont know how any woman could vote for that man..."

It's because they're the kind of stupid that follows in-group beliefs more than verifiable reality. We're all susceptible to overly weighing what our in-group says, but some people take it to dangerous levels.
And also there are grifters taking advantage of them.
- That's one reason these giant protest demonstrations are so important. These people are cowards at their core, and they want to be on the strongest side, so seeing millions of people demonstrating sends the message that anti-MAGA forces arent just some anti-American media jerks, there are millions of real people on their side. Many will see that, and conclude that they should get on the side with the numbers.
  Thats how HitlerPig built his following in the first place. The big crowds at his early rallies worked the same way to attract malleable followers to his side. Democrats can do the same thing with demonstrations that attract much larger crowds than his rallies.
  
  This is an interesting thought. It's worrisome if they'd look like allies but don't have any actual convictions, but I guess those people will always be with us.
- I'm happy my in-group has an actual doctor. I love being able to ask her random questions and verifying things I've heard.
  
  My formerly happy in-group had a former army medic and current RN that fully supported all the crazy Republican COVID bullshit, while actively seeing those "treatments" do absolutely nothing at her job every fucking day.
  Not all doctors and nurses are smart just because they graduated. Like with any job that requires a lot of memorization, some people memorize well but can't actually problem solve in the real world beyond it. You'd think a former Army Medic and Trauma RN wouldn't fall for that shit, yet there she is to this day still.

Why the long face?

Because they're incredibly ignorant
- Willfully. They don't have to be so stupid, they choose it.

They simply don't die fast enough from their medical idiocy to suit me.
- Darwinism is a slow process, but it always wins in the end...until the meteor arrives with a better idea.

Because…
a) wellness conmen don’t stop the con
b) cognitive dissonance for people embedded into conservative social and media bubbles
c) MAGA politicians never admit that they intentionally or unintentionally gave people bad advice.

it is not a help to anyone to have more disable maga. there are plenty already.
- What…?
  
  They are dying and getting debilitating health issues from this shit, and honestly, I think that’s in the interest of the greater good.