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AP claimed that 70% of calls to Mississippi Poison Control were about Ivermectin. The actual percentage was 2%, which they managed to correct after two weeks. (i.imgur.com)
posted 4 years ago by AntonioOfVenice 4 years ago by AntonioOfVenice +219 / -0
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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 44 points 4 years ago +44 / -0

Before

After

The AP is blaming the Mississippi Department of Health for the error.

To their credit, AP was engaging in less misinformation than other 'news' outlets. The article did not claim that Ivermectin is solely 'horse paste', but stated accurately that it comes in different formulations.

Yet this is quite the whopper. Even if the Mississippi Department of Health told you that, and I am not at all sure that they simply did not misinterpret the statement (creatively or otherwise) - surely the first thing you do is figure out whether these figures are at all plausible?

But as always with what Sowell calls the 'aha statistics', these are too good to check.

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– current_horror 31 points 4 years ago +31 / -0

70% of 2%.

So 20 of 1000 calls were about Ivermectin, and 14 of those 20 were about horse paste.

I wonder how many calls were about widely prescribed pain killers...

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– almond_activator 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

More importantly, how many of those calls were emergency calls? In how many of them was it recommended that the subject of the call be formally treated by a physician?

Someone calling in to find out if the medicine they or another person was about to take or had just taken doesn't guarantee a negative outcome.

Unless the 1.4% of total calls resulted in recommendations to emergency care, there's no reason for this statistic to be even the slightest bit relevant.

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– APDSmith 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

Just wait for the midterm election coverage:

Our poll indicated that 120% of all Republican supports are Nazis. You wouldn't want to be a Nazi, would you?

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– deleted 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0
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– revolver909 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Commies venerate the Nazis and even name their dogs after Hitler.

These people who worship the Left that led to the Nazi's could literally take Mein Kampf and change out the nouns with their trendy language and it'd sound the same. That literally happened in the peer review process in the heart of the beast.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/academic-journal-accepts-feminist-mein-kampf

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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

110% of votes are in and DRUMPF got literally -17m votes, weird.

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– deleted 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0
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– BlueDrache 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Exactly. If you must resort to ad hominem ... you have already lost the debate.

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– gonnahavetobe 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

It took them 2 days (Aug. 23–Aug. 25) to correct, not 2 weeks. Look at the date on the before capture on archive.is, it says Aug 23 when you mouseover.

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Ah, you are correct. I should have paid more attention to that.

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– crackerstacker 35 points 4 years ago +35 / -0

The more they attack Ivermectin the more I'm convinced it works.

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– current_horror 33 points 4 years ago +33 / -0

Given the barrage of articles and tweets against this stuff over the last few days, it is now obvious that the media-medical-government complex is openly targeting Ivermectin. What does it say about these people that they are deliberately sabotaging an extremely safe, effective, and inexpensive treatment against the coof? It says that none of this shit is about saving lives or your health.

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– RoulerBleu 24 points 4 years ago +24 / -0

Gotta set the table for Pfizermectin.

The totally not knock-off version of Ivermectin with a new name. Under a patent and at x10 - x 1000 times the cost.

Purely coincidentally, Pfizermectin will also happen to treat scabies, head lice, bed bugs... With promissing prospects for veterinarian use as a livestock dewormer. But it totally won't be Ivermectin.

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– BlueDrache 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

It'll be the stereoisomer and about half as effective. Medicines must be chemically different to get a new patent.

The rebrand/rename is because ivermectin is generic and they can't make billions off of it.

See the difference between Prilosec and Nexium ... when Prilosec went generic ... bam ... Nexium came out as the "new purple pill" ... but was basically the same shit. Then ... all of a sudden ... Prilosec had an issue and had to be pulled from the OTC shelf ... What a cohencidence!!!

Also: Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine. Stereoisomers of each other. One's the cis-molecule, the other's the trans-molecule.

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– deleted 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0
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– Tourgen 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Imagine what would happen if in 2-5 years we find out the mandatory gene therapy drugs have extremely negative long termside effects AND a safe, effective, common anti viral would have worked better.

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– deleted 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0
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– JoinTheDiscussion 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Normie's have to see the shit side by side.. No long term memory

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– SparkMandrill83 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Normies dont care. They're brainless tools

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Too self-congratulatory. Most of us were normies once.

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– Bullseyed 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

Actually it says 70% of 2%, which is less than 2%.

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– deleted 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0
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– Equity1984 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

Maybe if they allow doctors to prescribe it, they would cut that 2% down to zero.

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– loonygecko 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Ug you know they did that on purpose, they didn't fix it until after it had spread everywhere and was old news.

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– deleted 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0
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– solarsavior 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Keep fucking lying. It just proves we’re on the right track.

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– Fussbudget 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

AP are not a respectable organization

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– JoinTheDiscussion 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

For the most part they are but they form their opinions from watching CNN / MSNBC only.. I'm willing to bet 80-90% of them never heard of ivermectin before and think that it is ONLY a horse dewormer now

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– BidenLikesMiners 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

ITS MUH 70% OF 2% OF CALLS!!!!

Modern journalists are literally braindead faggots pushing this narrative

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– CletustheElitist 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Fascinating how they mark it up to an error when everyone stops looking.

There is huuuuuuuge money trading hands here.

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– revolver909 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

These Social Newstainment are literally a page out of South Park

"No, we haven't seen it we are just reporting it!"

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0p96miSK8 )

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