Ivermectin is set up for a “Wrap Up” Smear, but the effort gets debunked

The “Wrap Up” Smear, as explained by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, works as follows:

1. Demonize your political opponent by telling the public lies about them.
2. The press reports the lies as if they were true.
3. You use the press reports as validation that your lies are true.

It would seem that this same tactic is being used in the pharmaceutical industry.  We have already seen this done with hydroxychloroquine.  Now we can see lately how ivermectin is being set up for a “Wrap Up” Smear in the words that the media is using to describe ivermectin in their stories about Joe Rogan.  The media is trying to get us to think of ivermectin strictly as a veterinary dewormer of no value to humans.  This type of defamation is a type of censorship.

An older Fox News article exposes the motivation for wanting to smear ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.  This article appeared while the vaccines were still in the testing phase.  At the time, it was necessary that no other treatment options exist to allow for the Emergency Use Authorizations of the inoculation.  If other options existed, the EUA could not be issued, and the inoculation investments of the pharmaceutical companies would not pan out.  Anyone invested in the inoculations would have a motivation to smear competitors.

Unfortunately for those who wanted to set up the “Wrap Up” Smear, an independent investigator decided to fact-check the articles about clogged Oklahoma ERs.  This investigator called into the Infowars show and said that he had called all of the Oklahoma hospitals he knew of and could not find any cases of ivermectin overdose.  This appears to be another case of “making stuff up.”

Northeastern Health System – Sequoyah had a popup about the matter up on its site by the next day.

Meanwhile, the AMA is trying to ban ivermectin.  I am not aware of any link between the AMA and the creation of the story, but the AMA would likely have used the stories to push the public to outrage, had the stories not been debunked.  The FDA needs to tell the AMA to go pound sand.  The FDA may need to tell Anthony Fauci to go pound sand as well.  It would work if they stood together in doing so.

As for the dishonestly, fraud vitiates everything, including liability protections.

Sources:

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  “Ivermectin.” COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines.
  https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/.
  National Institutes of Health.
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  July 8, 2021. “Table: Characteristics of Potential Antiviral Agents.” COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines.
  https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/tables/table-2e/.
  National Institutes of Health.
  Ivermectin is the second drug in this table.  Take this chart to your doctor.
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  September 1, 2021. CNNWire. “Joe Rogan Says He Has COVID-19, Has Taken Controversial Drug Ivermectin.” ABC13 Houston. Multiple embedded videos.
  https://abc13.com/10992980/.
  News, Video.
  Judgmental terms used: “controversial,” “fringe.”  The report made a point of associating the use of ivermectin with fringe and anti-vax groups.  They used a color-altered photo of Joe Rogan.
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  September 1, 2021. Doha Madani. “Joe Rogan Says He Has Covid, Took Widely Discredited Drug Ivermectin.” NBC News. Multiple embedded videos.
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/joe-rogan-says-he-tested-positive-covid-took-ivermectin-n1278323.
  News, Video.
  Judgmental terms used: “livestock treatment,” “misinformation.”
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  September 1, 2021. Sophie Reardon. “‘I GOT COVID’: Joe Rogan Says He’s Using Ivermectin, an Unproven Anti-Parasite Drug, for Treatment.” CBS News.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-rogan-covid-19-ivermectin-treatment/.
  News.
  Judgmental terms used: “unproven,” “livestock,” “misinformation,” “unsubstantiated claims.”  The article goes on to say that “There are only three vaccines approved by the FDA to prevent COVID-19: Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.”  This last statement is misinformation since only the Comirnaty jab had been approved by the FDA at the time this article was published.  The Comirnaty/Pfizer-BioNTech Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine clearly states that pre-authorization Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Comirnaty vaccine are equivalent. Moderna and Johnson & Johnson are still made available via Emergency Use Authorization, which is NOT approval.
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  October 20, 2021. “Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine [Pfizer-BioNTech].” US Food & Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download.
  Food & Drug Administration.
  This document has instructions for healthcare providers who are administering the vaccines.
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  September 2, 2021. Jon Jackson. “Patients Overdosing on Ivermectin Are Clogging Oklahoma ERs: Doctor.” Newsweek.
  https://www.newsweek.com/patients-overdosing-ivermectin-are-clogging-oklahoma-ers-doctor-1625631.
  News, Hoax.
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  September 3, 2021, updated September 6, 2021. Peter Wade. “One Hospital Denies Oklahoma Doctor’s Story of Ivermectin Overdoses Causing ER Delays for Gunshot Victims.” Rolling Stone.
  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gunshot-victims-horse-dewormer-ivermectin-oklahoma-hospitals-covid-1220608/.
  Magazine, Hoax.
  After the independent report of no ivermectin ER visits or hospitalizations came out, Rolling Stone, to their credit, posted a correction update.
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  NHS Sequoyah. Archived September 4, 2021.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20210904191919/https://nhssequoyah.com/.
  General Website Link.
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  September 4, 2021. “Independent Investigator Debunks Ivermectin Overdose Story.” Infowars. Runtime of embedded video: 7:36.
  https://www.infowars.com/posts/independent-investigator-debunks-ivermectin-overdose-story.
  News, Video.
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  September 7, 2021. Zach Heilman. “Is Ivermectin Being Discredited To Pave Way For Big Pharma’s New Version Of Same Drug?” Red Voice Media. Runtime of embedded video: 3:31.
  https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/09/is-ivermectin-being-discredited-to-pave-way-for-big-pharmas-new-version-of-same-drug/.
  News.
  Pfizer does have a drug in trials.
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  September 1, 2021. “AMA, APhA, ASHP Statement on Ending Use of Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19.” American Medical Association.
  https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-apha-ashp-statement-ending-use-ivermectin-treat-covid-19.
  American Medical Association.

Related:

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  July 12, 2021. Joseph Mercola. “The Deadly Censorship of Ivermectin.” LewRockwell.com. Runtime of embedded audio: 2:54:50.
  https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/joseph-mercola/the-deadly-censorship-of-ivermectin/.
  Blog, Video.
  This article was copied from the Mercola site. But since Dr. Mercola is now deleting content after 48 hours, I cannot cite the article directly.  Further references are included in this article.
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  July 9, 2021. Charles Creitz. “Biologist to Tucker: If Ivermectin Proven Effective against COVID, It Moots Vaccine Push.” Fox News. Multiple videos embedded.
  https://www.foxnews.com/media/biologist-tucker-ivermectin-effective-covid-moots-vaccine.
  News, Video.
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  February 10, 2011. Andy CRUMP, and Satoshi ŌMURA. “Ivermectin, ‘Wonder Drug’ from Japan: The Human Use Perspective.” Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences 87 (2): 13–28.
  https://doi.org/10.2183/pjab.87.13.
  Research Journal.
  “A likely biological mechanism has been indicated to be competitive binding with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein sites, as reviewed.”
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  US Food & Drug Administration. “Emergency Use Authorization.”
  https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization.
  Food & Drug Administration.
  This is an information page describing the Emergency Use Authorization policies.
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  September 5, 2021. “That Time Ivermectin Won a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015.” 21st Century Wire.
  https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/09/05/that-time-ivermectin-won-a-nobel-prize-for-medicine-in-2015/.
  News.

See also, on this site:

• Stromectol (Ivermectin) is approved by the Food & Drug Administration.
• Fraud vitiates everything: UNITED STATES v. THROCKMORTON
• Many members of Congress and their staff have been using ivermectin
• Two medical journals retract study submitted by Surgisphere after company called into question.
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi explains the “Wrap Up” Smear.
• WHO Chief Scientist charged with causing the deaths of Indian citizens by misleading them about Ivermectin.
• NIH upgrades recommendation on ivermectin, making it an approved option for use in COVID-19
• Joe Rogan tells the world that he used ivermectin to recover from COVID-19
• Pfizer Announces Phase 2/3 Study of Oral Antiviral Candidate