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Rolling Stone Issues 'Update' After Horse Dewormer Hit-Piece Debunked
2021-09-06
[Zero] Update (1155ET): Rolling Stone has issued an 'update,' not a correction, or a retraction, by appending the hospital's statement to the top of the article.

After Joe Rogan announced that he'd kicked Covid in just a few days using a cocktail of drugs, including Ivermectin - an anti-parasitic prescribed for humans for over 35 years, with over 4 billion doses administered (and most recently as a Covid-19 treatment), the left quickly started mocking Rogan for having taken a 'horse dewormer' due to its dual use in livestock.

Rolling Stone's Jon Blistein led the charge:

On Friday, Rolling Stone's Peter Wade took another stab - publishing a hit piece claiming that Oklahoma ERs were overflowing with people 'overdosing on horse dewormer.'

It was suspect from the beginning.

The report, sourced to local Oaklahoma outlet KFOR's Katelyn Ogle, cites Oklahoma ER doctor Dr. Jason McElyea - who claimed that people overdosing on ivermectin horse dewormer are causing emergency rooms to be "so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting" access to health facilities.

Posted by:Besoeker

#13  Note how inbred the media can be:
[Katelyn Ogle Bio]: "...She is the granddaughter of the late Jack Ogle, one of Oklahoma’s most famous broadcast journalists and member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.

Her father, Kevin Ogle, and uncle, Kent Ogle, are anchors at KFOR-TV, while her sister, Abigail Ogle, is an anchor and reporter for the local ABC affiliate. Her other uncle, Kelly Ogle, is an anchor at the local CBS affiliate."

"May the Force Nepotism be with you, Always." --fractured Star Wars saying
Posted by: magpie   2021-09-06 15:24  

#12  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-09-06 15:23  

#11  ^ NICE ;-)
Posted by: Frank G   2021-09-06 14:03  

#10  Joe Rogan Bounces Back From COVID To Win Kentucky Derby
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-09-06 12:44  

#9  C'mon, man. No one reads the Stone for the facts - they read it for the sexy pictures of Boston Marathon bombers.
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-09-06 08:49  

#8  ^Yes
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-09-06 08:01  

#7  
So the question is:

Lying Now or Lying then?

Posted by: NN2N1   2021-09-06 07:42  

#6  even the most credulous would be suspicious of the accompanying photo showing people standing in line in heavy coats in presumably August.
but the dimwits got their next 'trumpsters are injecting bleach!' story and that's all that matters
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-09-06 07:40  

#5  Rachael Madcow was almost gleeful when "reporting" this. Have yet to read of a retraction from it despiye her assertion that she fact checks everything.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-09-06 07:16  

#4  So has Fakebook, Twister, and Giggle scrubbed this "misinformation" from their platforms? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-09-06 06:25  

#3  I don't see how Rolling Stone has any legal liability this time.

Unfortunately.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-09-06 06:16  

#2  If Rolling Stones is your news source, you may have other problems as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-06 03:59  

#1  What we have here is a what I call the flocking effect. When one horse kicks and bucks then runs madly the others follow. It is an insanity as infectious as any cold virus. Pass the popcorn. The show must go on. A new power play toy to play with. Then for as long as people have interest in the game.
Posted by: Dale   2021-09-06 03:49  

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