Apparently it's the 2021 version of hydroxychloroquine for the conspiracy-minded
Recently, Weinstein has graduated from entertaining theories that might not be right but could do no harm, to theories that cannot be right and are sure to do harm. Because of Weinstein’s prominence, and the trust his listeners place in him, this harm can be measured and is considerable. His promotion of outright quackery, during a pandemic that has killed more Americans than any catastrophe since the Civil War, is immoral.
In early June, Weinstein began to claim that ivermectin—a genuinely remarkable antiparasitic drug used to treat tropical diseases such as river blindness—could be applied to “eradicate” COVID-19. He invited physicians from a group called the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) to join him in what he called “an emergency podcast” to “save the world.” He began by explaining gravely that “something very serious is afoot, and the public is largely unaware that they have been placed into a kind of danger.” He and his guests offered the claim that ivermectin is “99 percent effective” in treating COVID-19; that it could be used as a prophylaxis against infection; and that were it widely used, the pandemic would end in “a month.” These truths, they suggested, had been suppressed by a conspiracy. They did not specify the mechanism by which the supposed conspiracy works, but they were clear about its object: selling COVID-19 vaccines.
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Had Weinstein stopped there, it would have been nutty, destructive, and misleading, but otherwise inoffensive. Ivermectin is generally a safe drug. It’s unlikely his listeners will kill themselves with it. It’s the next step he took that’s so deadly: On the same podcast, he and his guests argued that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines authorized for use in the United States, as well as the AstraZeneca adenovirus-vector vaccine, are so unsafe that the vaccinated are secretly dropping like flies from their effects. He also has avowed, on both the podcast and his Twitter feed, his trust in a UK physician named Tess Lawrie who has published a phenomenally insane paper that calls COVID-19 vaccines “unsafe for human use.” The paper advises that “Preparation should now be made to scale up humanitarian efforts to assist those harmed by the COVID-19 vaccines.”
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We don’t know if Weinstein endorses a claim offered by one of his guests, Dr. Steve Kirsch, that COVID-19 vaccines have caused more deaths than have all other vaccines “combined over the last 30 years.” But he certainly didn’t dispute it. It apparently does not trouble him that the original source of the claim is a notorious conspiracy-theory site called Infowars, which is owned by Alex Jones; nor that it is demonstrably false; nor that the claim relies on a misunderstanding of the way data is collected by the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System; nor that vaccine skeptics make this claim about every vaccine.
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