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Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music by cronix on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:04PM (#30103012)
> despite doctor's advice

Despite some doctor's advice....

Joe's doctor prescribed him human grade ivermectin, not "horse dewormer." HIS doctor. So HIS doctors advice was to take it, along with monoclonal antibodies, along with vitamins, and other things. He listened to HIS doctor, and recovered, and then told people what HE did. So it's Joe's fault some idiots took horse dewormer after he never mentioned those words? Please show where Joe, actually Joe and not a report of it, once recommended anyone take "horse dewormer" using those words. That was CNN's specific framing and where those words first showed up. They used those words, Joe didn't. Are you aware of that? The first time "horse dewormer" came out of Joe's mouth was in response to CNN's publicly false characterization of what he said.

Haven't heard Jordan's interview yet, but thanks for the heads up. I'm sure there will be something in the 4+ hour interview that I will gain, or will provoke thought, or cause me to go look something up, and some things I don't agree with or learn I was wrong about. Provoking thought is good.

Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music by dekhn on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:20PM (#30104068)
Yes, Rogan was quite smart to get a real prescription and to get the actual human medical product. CNN (and other news agencies, and people on twitter) were outright foolish in attempting to make him look dumb (he won that round). I am quite irked at the people who thought the way to recommend not taking ivermectin is to shame people.

That said if he is smart enough to anticipate what people are going to say and adjust his actions to negate them, you'd think he'd also be smart enough to see that there really isn't any strong evidence for ivermectin being useful, and it's also possible you can take the drug, have no positive or negative effects, and get better from COVID, even if ivermectin made no difference. From that perspective, thing he did that was bad was "not even being wrong" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong) in the sense that we can't say really much of anything about his experience representing a generally useful medical advice.

Rogan is smarter than the average bear, but he's not in the club of the smartest bears.

Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music by micromacrofoot on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:26PM (#30104162)
“This doctor was saying ivermectin is 99 percent effective in treating Covid, but you don’t hear about it because you can’t fund vaccines when it’s an effective treatment,”

Actual quote. The guy spins it as "big pharma doesn't want you to know about this" so of course people are going off script. He's a dangerous moron.

Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music by rayiner on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:51PM (#30109329)
It’s a moronic comment, but equally moronic comments are made about “big pharma” all the time by a bunch of people. He sounds like every Bernie supporter.
Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music by micromacrofoot on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:35PM (#30109667)
He's a moron that sounds like other morons, got it.