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Thomas Goetz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
415 total appearances

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99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Now, I'm not going to chronicle everything that happened with COVID.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

I'm not getting into vaccines or lockdowns or where the virus originated.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

That story is not this story.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

I will just note that in late 2021, YouTube decided to remove videos from their platform that contained dangerous coronavirus information.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Over 1 million videos were removed.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

But there are still many videos there, thousands of them, and more still on TikTok or Instagram.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

And sometimes it just takes one video to get people talking again.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

I'll tell you a good story.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Again, it's profit.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

That was, yes, Academy Award winner Mel Gibson and comedian Joe Rogan back in January 2025.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

More than 12 million people have watched that episode.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Now, there is no evidence for any of that, in fact.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

There have been many, many studies looking into the potential therapeutic effects of ivermectin on various cancer.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Ovarian cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, and so on.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Different cancers can have very different courses in the human body.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

So drugs that work in one type often, very often, do not work in another kind of cancer.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

Most of the research so far is in vitro, in a petri dish.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

So the same caveats as above.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

What works in a petri dish or a mouse, it may not work in a human being.

99% Invisible
Drug Story: Ivermectin

It may kill the cancer, but in amounts that could also kill the human.