Comment by tptacek
1 day ago
I have the same opinion about ivermectin as you do. People with intractable cancers, for wholly sympathetic reasons, turn to alternative medication. I don't think any of that helped him. But it's not what killed him. He's was a human being, his published beliefs notwithstanding, and his illness was not a parable.
I am not unfamiliar with that dynamic myself. But the crucial point is that he turned to alt-medicine as a first resort, not as a last resort. This is decisionmaking that leads to deaths which were avoidable.
I'm unhappy to have had to watch a Scott Adams video to confirm this but that video appears to say the opposite of what this thread says: it says he was on exactly the course of hormone blockers his oncologist recommended (he put it off some indeterminate amount of time because he believed they wouldn't buy him much time, but they also alleviated his symptoms).