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[-] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When did ivermectin become the cure all? COVID? Because this is beyond stupid.

I know it started with COVID, but to become a wonder drug...

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I swear, if somehow dog turds got a "fight the man" aura about them there'd be people claiming dog turds cure everything.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I know it started with COVID, but to become a wonder drug…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3043740/

It garners it's "wonder drug" status long before COVID. Just not for any reason related to COVID. Nor Cancer...

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The same people who think they are smarter than any doctor and play doctor probably like to be their own lawyer too.

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[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Scam artists can sell it without a prescription as long as they're calling it an animal product. It's sold off the counter at any feed store. This is always the scam with these claims it's ''it cures cancer THEY just don't want you to know about it!'' Then they sell you a huge amount of it at a huge markup. This is everything from Monavie (an aqci berry juice), vitamin Mega doses, some completely insignificant ''supplements'' (I knew a guy selling ox bile capsules with almost no oil or extracts mixed in), then you have all manner of crystals, jade eggs, food processing leftovers like apricot pits, inert nonsense. And I'm not even really mad about it because it mostly ripps off rich idiots like Mel and Joe. These idiots take the same meds from their doctor as everyone else, then ALSO take the snake oil and are convinced the snake oil worked. Joe took a vit C mega dose when he was also taking meds from his doctor for Covid, and he's SURE the Vit C did something. It's like how if you have really worn out tires on a car that when you get new tires the mileage gets noticeably better, but then you think ''tire store change tire = 20% lower mph'' so you take your car back the next day and ask them to change the tires 4 more times because you think it will make your car have -100% gas consuption. All these meds CAN improve your immune system response by removing parasites if you have them, eliminate vit deficiencys if you have them, or remove other micro nutrient deficiencies, all work IF you have the issue to begin with, and studies show the improvement, but taking 1000x the dose of Vit C is just making your pee insanely vit rich, once the deficiency is resolved your body dumps the excess.

[-] spireghost@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

it mostly ripps off rich idiots like Mel and Joe

Not at all. People who can barley afford their medications see these as cheaper alternatives and will often use these instead.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

THEY just don’t want you to know about it!’’

Tell them that THEY (whoever THEY are) are doing a horrible job of keeping it a secret because every tinfoil twit talks about it.

The vitamin c thing probably comes from Linus Pauling and his promotion of vitamin c megadoses.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9350474/

[-] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

But they'll kick and scream and run away from the actual medical miracle with a medically tested and proven vaccine.

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[-] Ironfist@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

That sounds like natural selection is taking care of business.

[-] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

We need more natural selection accelerants.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

What is this obsession some people have with ivermectin? They don't believe in the moon landings but they think ivermectin has magic powers.

[-] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

Its an ad campaign to hike up the price and demand for Ivermectin by people invested in its production.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Steve Jobs, an otherwise very intelligent and successful guy, got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and instead of jumping right on treating it instead let it go and sought out all sorts of "natural" cures. Well it became terminal and he admitted that if he had treated it at the start it was in an early enough stage where he likely would've survived. There is a trait in some smart people to think they are experts on everything.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Tfw you distrust the scientific establishment and take health into your own hands to stick it to the man. But then you realize you're the man.

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[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

For a soul-crushing perfectionist slave-driver asshole, Jobs had quite a few fluffy New Age beliefs. It always seemed a bit incongruous.

[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

obligatory fuck daily mail but this screen was posted to a discord I'm in and I laughed then, I'll laugh again now

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

I guess he'll get to blame the Jews for that one again.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Gibson hating Jew checking in for duty. You made my day.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

A member of the Mazel Tov Cocktail Brigade reporting! Fuck Mel Gibson!

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

omfg I'm holding onto this one. Elderly mother going to love it. Ty!

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[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Sorry to the people dealing with the fires in LA area but I have to admit that I laughed hard when I heard Mel Gibson's house burnt down during this interview. Absolutely hilarious to me.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

let's hope everyone who still listens to Joe Bogan follows Mel G's advice when they get cancer.

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Methylene Blue is also fish medicine. It treats ich.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yes and it treats fungal infections in tree frogs. I'm not trying to say that these medicines work the way that Gibson is saying they do, but the whole "horse dewormer" talking point is dishonest as it makes it out like these medicines have only a single use. I doubt ivermectin treats covid or whatever. But anytime someone just throws out these minimizing points as if it's impossible to use things in more than one way only makes me doubt the validity of their claims.

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[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There were so many calls to "Let Mel come back," promising that his outbursts weren't a real problem anymore and he was on the way to recovery. Nope. Don't believe that shit. Second chances are dead now, thanks to cunts like him and these other fucks that have squandered the goodwill of the people. Gibson isn't done doing harm. He will be a piece of shit until he dies, which can't come soon enough. Fuck him and the entire tribe of fuckwads that spout the same and similar nonsense. They are a blight on humanity.

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It's like these people got trolled by 4chan and believed every single word they said.

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