Invited to participate in one of the most followed podcasts in the United States, actor Mel Gibson ventured into the field of medicine. “I have three friends, all three had stage 4 cancer. None of them have cancer now. They had very serious problems,” the star said in The Joe Rogan Experience.
When the journalist asks him what they were treated with, he responds: “they took what you heard… Ivermectin, Fenbendazole… Yes, I hear a lot about that,” he adds in this excerpt, heard, seen. and reviewed millions of times on social media.
The drugs in question (ivermectin is an antiparasitic prescribed for scabies, and fenbendazole) are used in veterinary medicine. And so far there is no evidence of its effectiveness in the treatment of cancer.
“You have to stay right”
“Today there are no clinical trials in humans. I see 30 people a day and, unfortunately, I have never had a case of this type. We must be reasonable,” explains doctor Jérôme Barrière, oncologist and member of the BFMTV microphone. French Cancer Society.
“The risk is that people abandon truly effective treatments by trying molecules that have not proven effective and waste time,” adds the specialist. In conspiracy circles, ivermectin had already been presented as a remedy against Covid-19, without its effectiveness having been proven.
“Mel Gibson (…) brings out the usual elements of conspiracy, namely: ‘if we don’t offer you that, it’s because big pharma pays us’. All these conspiratorial speeches that we have heard during Covid-19 reproduce “summarizes Mathieu Molimard, professor of pharmacology at the Bordeaux University Hospital.
Following the actor’s statements, the Canadian Cancer Society denounced X as “dangerous and irresponsible misinformation that gives false hope to sick people.”
Source: BFM TV
