Okay, Let’s Seriously Talk About Ivermectin

On 9/2/2021, a man named Buck Sexton — seriously, that’s his name — tweeted the following:

Don’t correct anyone who uses the term “horse dewormer” to disparage ivermectin today. It’s currently a perfect litmus test to expose abject morons. Let them all come out at once and go on the record with how ignorant they are “Follow The Science!”

Considering I called Ivermectin “an anti-parasite medication used on Horses and other farm animals,” in an article published on 8/28/2021, I was naturally confused. Of course, if it’s not a “horse dewormer,” someone should really consider telling the people who are taking it — because they’re causing animal feed suppliers to run low on Ivermectin.

In truth, nobody is saying that Ivermectin has no human uses (such a statement would be ridiculous considering thousands of humans used Ivermectin every month long before COVID-19) — just that people are taking it irresponsibility and using a version not made for humans.

Here’s an example of this argument playing out. On 9/5/2021, Jimmy Dore tweeted the following at a critic of Ivermectin:

So is penicillin a horse drug too cuz there’s a horse version of it? Why don’t you take 2 seconds and google “WHO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES Ivermectin” or not and then you can keep mindlessly repeating…