Joe Rogan says he has Covid, took widely discredited horse drug ivermectin

I don't understand why people with a large audience feel compelled to weigh in on things that they don't know anything about. It makes sense when it's entertainment but when it comes to medicine and investment advice it seems ill-advised. But hey, Joe Rogan and Jim Cramer have been making buckets of money doing what they do. Maybe it falls into the category of "you get the universe you deserve?"

It’s a bit unfair to label Ivermectin as horse drug while it has been used for a very long time by millions of people (very effectively) as a treatment for parasites. Which is why the inventors of Ivermectin won a nobel price for their invention [0].

Some sources found that Ivermectin had some anti-viral qualities.

When reading a headline like this, I am under the impression that the author of the article wants to give the impression that Ivermectin users are crazy.

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[0]: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/press-releas...