The Ivermectin Skeptics
5th September 2021
Roger Kimball, in The Spectator.
But back to my doctor’s office in the winter of 2020. He showed me a few boxes of ivermectin, told me it was probably an effective therapeutic but it had some serious disadvantages, chief among them is that it was very cheap, and therefore was unsupported by Big Pharma. Consequently, the experts looked down their noses at it, so far down that the politicians, who like the contributions they get from drug companies, basically outlawed its use for Covid. If he prescribed it for Covid, he told me, he could lose his license to practice medicine.
That seems to have changed, since many people are now touting the potent therapeutic properties of ivermectin, including bad-boy podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan, who came down with Covid and decided to ‘throw the kitchen sink at it.’ Inside the sink was ivermectin, along with hydroxychloroquine, monoclonal antibodies (whetever they are), Z-Pak, and prednisone. That started on a Sunday, when he felt shabby. By Wednesday, he reported, he ‘felt great.’