A couple of medical researchers won a half-share in a Nobel Prize in 2015 for work on the use of an Ivermectin-family drug against parasitic infections in humans. No, it's true; their work was on river blindness and elephantiasis, but the stuff works great on parasitic worms in general and bodily infestations like scabies. The link goes to the Nobel committee's website, which we can take as definitive.
However, this family of drugs still doesn't do squat for viral respiratory infections -- and that's been shown by controlled experiment.
This is in response to the same lunatic who keeps returning to my comments section like a dog to its vomit (that's Shakespeare), and whose falsehoods can be refuted in seconds with access to a decent search engine or even a recent encyclopedia.
Y'know, it's one thing when people believe fringe stuff that is difficult to look up or figure out, wacky quantum theories or whatever; it's one thing when people choose to believe religious mysticism that is inherently impossible to refute. But opting for comic-book level crap that makes zero sense, pushed by blatant quacks out to profit from the credulous, years after the rug's been yanked out from under it by genuine, verifiable science -- why? As some kind of banner of group affiliation? Give it up, loser. It's just one more dead end, right down there in the slime with the Stars & Bars and the horrible hooky cross.
Fun as it is to mock this kind of deliberate ignorance, this is his last appearance, even as an offstage source of goofiness.
The delete button is a good way to avoid the stress of dealing with someone that can't hear because they are not listening.
ReplyDeleteYou see his name or whatever punch delete. No angst, no recognition
in any for of the idiot.
Eck!
Bobbie, he doesn't really believe that stuff, he just throws it up at you because he knows it will offend you enough to call him out on your site.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned above, deletion is the best solution followed by blocking.
Y'know, I'd agree with that, but another unpublished comment has convinced me that the fool is serious -- and sees no connection between racist, might-makes-right politics and the embrace of medical misinformation.
ReplyDeleteThere is no fixing such people.
Turns out that brain worms is actually a thing…
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Choose Your Own Reality world!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't actually work like that, but as long as the things set up by the people who follow actual reality keep on keeping things keeping on, the kooks & cranks can continue to Make Believe without too many consequences.