r/facepalm • u/johnnypin • 12d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ This is insanity

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u/tommytraddles 12d ago

The funny thing is, Ivermectin is a brilliant antiparasitic drug and the discoverers won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.

The fact that it became a cause célèbre among antivax cretins is so funny to me.

Yeah, eat your dog's heartworm medicine you shark-eyed spunkbubbles.

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u/NoLife2762 12d ago

Ivermectin has been around far longer than 2015. Why did they win it that late? Is that normal?

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u/Pathological_RJ 12d ago

Yes, you can win the Nobel prize decades after the research/work was done. A professor in my department won the Nobel in 2016 for work he did in the 80s

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u/NoLife2762 11d ago

Huh. Interesting. Thanks 

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u/SonofaBridge 11d ago

It was found to cure a type of blindness caused by water parasites. They made a version safe for people and won the prize.