“Who decides to prioritize business interests ahead of that? I find it hard to imagine.” Clips from the episode have widely circulated on YouTube and TikTok, with one video on the latter platform garnering 2.6 million views before it was removed for violating TikTok guidelines against medical misinformation. “You have a drug that’s good enough to end the pandemic at any point you wanted,” Weinstein said. In the episode, Weinstein and Kory pushed the claim that the media and government are censoring information about ivermectin in order for Big Pharma to profit off the Covid-19 vaccine. Kory is the president of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, an organization that pushes for the use of ivermectin in Covid-19 treatment after YouTube demonetized his channel for publicly promoting ivermectin, Weinstein moved to the fringe platform Odysee. Pierre Kory, both public champions of ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment. Two months later, on June 22nd, Rogan hosted Dr. “I t’s sort of an offhanded way of hitting the vaccines and the broader narrative about vaccines,” he says. I’m just asking questions.” When asked about these comments, Angelo Carusone, the head of media watchdog group Media Matters, saw it as another example of his seeding distrust in the vaccine. “I don’t know if this guy is right or wrong. “This doctor was saying ivermectin is 99 percent effective intreating Covid, but you don’t hear about it because you can’t fund vaccines when it’s an effective treatment,” he says on his podcast. In an April 23rd episode of his podcast, the earliest example that could be found by Rolling Stone, he accused Twitter of preventing him from sending a private direct message containing a link to a video about the drug, echoing a common narrative on the right that the media is censoring discussion of any vaccine alternatives. The FDA has warned against taking ivermectin as a treatment for Covid, saying that overdoses could lead to side effects such as dizziness, seizures, and increased vomiting and some states have reported that people taking overdoses of ivermectin has led to an increase in poison control calls.Īrguably and no one has been more successful at promoting ivermectin than Rogan himself. As Rolling Stone has previously reported, in recent months ivermectin has been promoted heavily by right-wing media personalities like Laura Ingraham as a potential treatment for Covid-19, despite the fact that there is little consistent evidence to support its use in this regard as a result, people have been buying the drug in bulk, raving about its efficacy in private Facebook groups and griping about its side effects after taking too high a dose (which include uncontrollable defecation). An anti-parasitic drug, ivermectin is perhaps best known as a deworming medication for horses or dogs (though it is indeed prescribed to humans in tablet form to treat parasitic infection, or in topical form to treat conditions like rosacea). But most media reports of Rogan’s Covid-19 diagnosis focused on the fact that he had said he had also taken ivermectin. I feel pretty fucking good,” he says in the video. As a result, he says in the video, “here we are on Wednesday and I feel great.”Īmong the treatments that Rogan promoted on his Instagram video were monoclonal antibodies (which Trump received when he contracted Covid), as well as the corticosteroid prednisone. “We immediately threw the kitchen sink at it, all kinds of meds” he said in the video when discussing his treatment. Yesterday, however, he announced in an Instagram video that he himself had contracted COVID-19. One would, however, be incorrect.įor the past 18 months, Joe Rogan, the host of a wildly successful podcast that Spotify acquired in a much-ballyhooed deal, has been platforming misinformation about Covid-19 to his nearly 11 million listeners per episode, downplaying the effects of the virus, inviting guests on to promote unproven treatments, and dismissing the importance of the vaccine.
One would think that our culture has evolved to a point beyond turning to the guy who starred as the electrician in NewsRadio for medical advice.
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