The Post-Partisan Emporium

Horse-Bleep: How 4 Calls on Animal Ivermectin Launched a False FDA-Media Attack on a Life-Saving Human Medicine Our investigative reporters dug up the FDA memos documenting the start of a propaganda campaign, and got The New York Times to correct its false reporting. Mary Beth Pfeiffer  and  Linda Bonvie The Propaganda That Started The Big Lie: In a hokey  tweet  on August 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told Americans the obvious: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” Everyone knew what “it” was: an animal form of the drug ivermectin that folks were said to be using, widely, for covid-19. Don’t, said FDA. Within two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the  Today Show ’s 3 million-follower Instagram account.  “That was great!” declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team...

The People's Medicine vs Merck's Billion $ Pill We must remember. We are here to remember. Not just the people who died from medical experimentation. We are here to remember the people today. ~ Dr. Daniel Nagase Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek People of Bangladesh In Bangladesh, they call it “the People’s Medicine.” In the United States, they call it horse paste. In  Lucknow , the largest city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, they set up Kiosks to distribute it free to treat COVID-19. In the United States, it’s been maligned as a dangerous drug that will more likely kill you than help you. In May, 2021, at the height of India’s Delta surge… Wait. Let’s pause for one moment. I need to clarify a few things about buzz words/phrases that have become indispensable additions of our everyday vocabulary. In the COVID propaganda campaign these words/phrases have been weaponized to push fear and hysteria. “Delta variant” and “surge” and “super spreaders” are three examples. When the Delta v...