Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #5958 –
Back in September Flyboy contributed a post that included the statement:
You do realise it [Ivermectin] has been on the WHO's list of most essential human drugs for decades and won the Nobel Prize in 2015?
I didn't respond at the time but now I think I should. Ivermectin did not win the Nobel prize. No drug has ever won the Nobel prize. It is a prize that is awarded to people.
The truth of the matter is that Satoshi Omura and William Campbell were awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research that demonstrated that Ivermectin (developed back in the 1970s as a veterinary medicine) is effective in treating parasitic infections in humans as well as animals.
At around the time of Flyboy's post, many prominent COVID-deniers and Ivermectin-boosters were making almost identical claims that Ivermectin "won" the Nobel Prize. Of course, that got me thinking that someone or something was orchestrating a campaign and the COVID-deniers and Ivermectin-boosters were simply falling into line with their approved statements or catchphrases.
In response to the outrageous and blatantly wrong claims of the COVID-deniers and Ivermectin-boosters, Dr William Campbell was moved to make the following statement:
I utterly despise and deny the remarks attributed to me on social media on September 8, 2021,” he wrote. “I reject both the substance and the tone of the remarks, and resent their presentation as a direct quotation. The tweet in question was not concerned with science. I am a biologist with no claim to expertise in the clinical evaluation of drugs against viral infections. Thus, I have not taken a stand in support of, or against, the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19.
Anyone who claims that Ivermectin "won" the Nobel Prize or has any application beyond treating parasitic infections in humans and animals is playing fast and loose with the truth..