The Great Ivermectin Flap Reveals the Tribalism of American Politics

by James E. Hanley
The American Institute for Economic Research

It appears that some Americans are so Red Tribe-identifying that they distrust vaccines that have been taken by tens of millions with few cases of significant side effects, while simultaneously naively trusting non-experts telling them to take a horse dewormer. Some are even taking it prophylactically. As the old saying goes, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

But the problem is not all on their side. Other Americans are so deeply Blue Tribe-identifying that they have obscured the reality of Ivermectin as a human medicine with a wide range of uses. They appear to think – or worse, consciously choose to pretend – that all uses of the drug are in the form of livestock dewormers.

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