Ivermectin: The Story of a Wonder Drug

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today, we’re digging into the weird and wooly world of ivermectin. When promising papers came out early in the pandemic, a lot of scientists got excited about the drug, but then … cracks started to show. We went down the rabbit hole and realized that there's way more to this story than the headlines. We’ll hear from Dr. Pierre Kory, as well as Jack Lawrence, Dr. Kyle Sheldrick, and Professor Roy Gulick. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/3k1dknq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and DeliSning2ScienceVestors from Gimlet.
0:07.0	So, there's a story that's been going around during the pandemic.
0:15.4	And it's this.
0:17.4	There's a drug out there that works wonders against COVID.
0:21.9	But we aren't getting this drug because Big Pharma wants to sell us vaccines instead.
0:28.0	But they're getting billions of dollars for.
0:32.7	And we know that these huge pharmaceutical companies, they aren't saints.
0:36.4	A bunch of them have been caught out doing really sketchy stuff in the past.
0:41.0	So who knows?
0:44.4	Maybe it's true.
0:46.2	But then there's another story out there that all this who plar over this drug is just
0:53.6	total nonsense.
0:55.3	And that some of the people gunning for it, one doctor in particular, have lost their
0:59.7	minds to conspiracy theories.
1:05.3	So today on the show, it's a tale of two parallel universes.
1:13.1	In one of them, a doctor has gone through the looking glass.
1:17.8	In the other, he's right.
1:21.7	And we've been taken for a ride.
1:24.3	Coming up.
1:32.2	At VT, we know your busy being an absolute boss.
1:37.2	Next level.
1:38.2	Yeah, I'm smashing it.
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