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The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work (jacobin.com)
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Over the last several decades, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed pharma companies to sell hundreds of drugs to patients without adequate evidence that they work and, in many cases, with clear signs that they pose a risk of serious harm.

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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Generally if it's effective orally, it'll be effective intravenously, so I would expect it to work...the issue with dosage is more likely to be in the opposite direction, with significant side effects due to overdosing.

One concern is neurotoxicity after large overdoses, which in most mammalian species may manifest as central nervous system depression,[58] ataxia, coma, and death

I suppose if you overdose hard enough, it would cure COVID in addition to the brain worm

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the issue with dosage is more likely to be in the opposite direction, with significant side effects due to overdosing.

Yes, I wasn't clear enough about it, but that is what I would be worried about, lol.

Its... probably not just as simple as a direct proportion between cow weight:cow cow dose to human weight:human dose... as ... humans are not cows.

I suppose if you overdose hard enough, it would cure COVID in addition to the brain worm

I remember reading hermancainaward posts about idiots who did actually take waaay too much oral (or in some cases, suppository...) ivermectin...

So now they're on a ventilator from the covid, and also uncontrollably shitting themselves and massively dehydrated.

Can't say I remember a case of ivermectin OD leading to CNS shutdown... but yeah.

Covid skeptic/deniers were and still are astoundingly, lethally, suicidally stupid.

EDIT: Also, ... ataxia.

Could ataxia lead to muscular control difficulty with say... your diaphagm, your throat?

Boy would that be counter productive as a covid 'cure' fucking christ...

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