FAKE NEWS: Ivermectin can cure cancer

FAKE NEWS: Ivermectin can cure cancer
© EPA-EFE/ROLEX DELA PENA   |   A citizen holds human-grade capsules of the drug Ivermectin during a distribution campaign in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines 29 April 2021.

“Turbo cancers” caused by anti-Covid vaccination can be cured with ivermectin, but Big Pharma is keeping this information secret and wants to eliminate anyone telling the truth.

NEWS: Once nominated as a Nobel Prize-winning anti-parasitic drug, ivermectin started being demonized by the government and the media during the pandemic. Why the sudden smear campaign? Because this unassuming drug poses a direct threat to the trillion-dollar profits linked to the alarming increase in vaccine-induced “turbo cancers”.

The truth is becoming increasingly difficult to hide. Even the great Hollywood actor Mel Gibson has witnessed it firsthand. Three of his closest friends (who had taken the Covid jab) have been diagnosed with stage-4 cancer in recent years. But instead of relying on standard treatments, they dared try something different, ​​and the results have been nothing short of remarkable. This is a crucial piece of information, and it is vital that everyone understands what global elites are playing at! Why? So they stop being harmful to our health. And it’s not just Mel Gibson. There are honest, sensible doctors in this country and around the world who are more concerned with honoring their Hippocratic oath than working as salesmen for Big Pharma. While the Biden administration was busy censoring the truth, demonizing ivermectin to protect Big Pharma’s profits, and forcing millions of Americans to choose between messenger-RNA vaccines and their livelihoods, in private they themselves were taking ivermectin. Why? Because they knew how effective the drug really was. Don’t worry, “there are rules that apply to you and others for me”. While the US government ordered the media to demonize ivermectin, they funneled billions of dollars to Walgreens and CVS to stop doctors from prescribing ivermectin during the pandemic. Meanwhile, hundreds of members of Congress were enjoying the benefits of this drug, while depriving the public of the same benefits.

NARRATIVES: 1. Ivermectin can cure turbo cancers that arose after anti-Covid vaccination. 2. Big Pharma seeks to physically eliminate anyone who chooses to tell the truth about the pharmaceutical industry. 3. In the USA, officials treated themselves for Covid-19 by taking ivermectin, while prohibiting the public use of the drug.

Ivermectin does not treat cancer by itself    

WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: To date, scientists have not confirmed that ivermectin can be effective in curing or treating cancer in individuals.

Dozens of studies have been conducted over the years to see if ivermectin can help slow down the growth of cancer cells or treat tumors. Such studies and their results, which have not been entirely satisfactory, are widely available to public access, and there is no conspiracy to keep them hidden.

For instance, a team of doctors at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center of California is studying the use of ivermectin in combination with a specific antibody called anti-PD1 used to treat breast cancer, with positive results so far in mice. Researchers are preparing to conduct human clinical trials in humans in the near future, but they state that “ivermectin in itself is not an effective treatment for breast cancer”. One of the big questions about the use of ivermectin in humans is whether the body can tolerate doses of the drug high enough to produce effects. Even so, researchers are not suggesting that ivermectin should replace chemotherapy or other cancer drugs.

In fact, according to the World Health Organization, ivermectin is a broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug. It is used in the treatment of scabies, onchocerciasis, strongyloidiasis and other diseases caused by various parasites.

The narrative claiming there is a Big Pharma (a term used to describe the world's largest pharmaceutical companies) conspiracy is not new, pre-dating the Covid-19 pandemic. The narrative snowballed with the advent of anti-Covid vaccines, which conspiracists claim lead to the emergence of so-called “turbo cancers”. In fact, there is no link between messenger-RNA vaccines and cancer, as Veridica has proved countless times. Moreover, the patent for the production of ivermectin is owned by Merck & Co., Inc., the 4th-largest pharmaceutical company in the world last year, practically one of the leaders of Big Pharma. Contrary to conspiracy theories, in 1988, Merck decided to donate all the ivermectin needed to eradicate onchocerciasis, and ten years later, the donation was expanded to include ivermectin used to treat lymphatic filariasis. Merck's donation program is currently the largest of its kind in the world, implementing active treatment programs in 33 of the 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, where onchocerciasis is an endemic disease. To date, over half a billion tablets of MECTIZAN (the trade name for ivermectin) have been donated and delivered, and the number of people treated annually is estimated to stand at 25 million. With such an abundance of ivermectin tablets on the market, it is naïve, to the say the least, to claim that anyone is denying population-wide access to this drug.

With regard to actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson's claims that Big Pharma wants to physically take him out for “telling the truth”, we are dealing with yet another attempt by the filmmaker to make his own conspiracy beliefs known. Over the years, the American actor has distinguished himself with a series of sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic statements that have sidelined his once extremely popular Hollywood career. Gibson has always accused the “global cabal” of causing various scandals in which he has been involved. A few days ago, for instance, Mel Gibson suggested that the fires that devastated the city of Los Angeles were “caused by certain individuals, either of their own accord or following external directives”. He supported his theory by stating that the difficulties encountered by firefighters in putting out the fire, caused by low water pressure, were deliberate. It should also be mentioned that, due to shared conservative beliefs, president Donald Trump announced the appointment of Mel Gibson, along with American cinema stars Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone, as “special ambassador” to Hollywood, a “great but very troubled” place, a reference to conspiracy theories related to a cabal of Satanic pedophiles controlling the American film industry. Mel Gibson's role is to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger than ever before”, while serving as Trump’s “eyes and ears” in Hollywood. The fact that, like other more or less well-known conspiracists, Gibson does not specifically name his “three friends cured of terminal cancer with ivermectin” shows that, in fact, the actor is lying, just as he does when he claims that members of the American Congress were treated with the same anti-Covid drug during the pandemic, without providing a single piece of evidence to substantiate his claim. In fact, he is merely rehashing a false narrative spread in 2022, which stated that ivermectin is extremely effective in treating Covid-19, and for this reason, it was added to the NIH list of anti-Covid treatments. It is obviously impossible to believe that a man with such wealth and fame as Mel Gibson would not have access to such a treatment, and that not even one of the 535 members of the US Congress (some of them major conspiracists in their own right) has revealed the “truth” to this day.

Actors, journalists and influencers who are more knowledgeable about medicine than doctors themselves

BACKGROUND: Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, health-related conspiracy theories have been increasingly permeating Romanian media, in line with trend at global level. There is increasing talk about the existence of a secretive plan (the Great Health Reset) at global level, which seeks to reduce the planet's population and/or control it completely. Such conspiracy theories are circulated by various publications or individuals with ultra-religious, conservative views, but they are also taken over and used by politicians for electoral purposes, or by people known to be close to Russia and its foreign policy.        

False narratives about the effectiveness and effects of vaccination have been circulating for many years, however, having multiple sources. They have become a lot more visible after the development of anti-Covid vaccines. One source is Russia, which seeks to destabilize Western societies, but at the same time there are also a lot of Western publications and “influencers”, usually from the radical right, as well as conspiracy theorists, who equally spread disinformation. Thus, genuine anti-vaccine movements have emerged in many countries, strongly influenced by some of these narratives, which they take over, internalize and amplify. According to conspiracy theorists, right now, the population is getting sick both through foods “forced on them” by the global occult, and through almost any medical intervention, in order to exercise control over the thoughts and movements of those affected. At the same time, conspiracy theorists claim that, from now on, humanity will be constantly confronted with imaginary pandemics which, on the one hand, will kill most people, and on the other, will suppress the individual rights and freedoms of anyone left alive.

Several conservative publications take up these false narratives and, over the years, seek to validate their own anti-vaccine theories by citing pseudo-experts, anonymous websites, or by falsely citing various studies, events, or personalities with no connection to the medical world. Veridica has already debunked several fake news and disinformation narratives concerning vaccines, which either introduce nanobots into the human body to achieve total control, or cause sterility across three generations and mental illnesses, reduce the life span of men by 24 years, or cause physical disabilities, testicular cancer, myocarditis, and even death in people who take the jab.

Last summer, a similar false narrative circulated in Romania, suggesting that Big Pharma was keeping secret another cancer treatment which used amygdalin, a potentially dangerous substance, banned and withdrawn from the market in the USA and Europe since the early 1980s.

PURPOSE: To promote conspiracy and anti-vaxx discourse, to erode confidence in the healthcare system and, by extension, in state authorities, to stir and amplify social unrest.       

  • Publication / Media:
    activenews.ro
  • Date of publication:
    15/01/2025
  • Target audience:
    Conspiracists, anti-vaxxers, sovereigntists, nationalists, anti-Western readers
  • Amplification:
    ZIAR.COM, social media
  • Key narrative:
    Ivermectin is known to cure cancer.
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