Rogan confronts CNN's Sanjay Gupta over 'horse dewormer' framing (JRE #1710)
Rogan pressed CNN's chief medical correspondent on air over the network describing his doctor-prescribed ivermectin as 'horse dewormer'; Gupta conceded 'they shouldn't have said that' when the human formulation was prescribed by a physician. The exchange is cited both as an on-the-record admission of legacy-media inaccuracy and — by defenders of the framing, who note FDA warnings and a real surge in veterinary-ivermectin poisonings — as glossing over ivermectin's lack of efficacy in later large trials.
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Unresolved. The efficacy question for ivermectin in COVID-19 is largely settled against benefit in the major RCTs, but the dispute over the tone and legality of the FDA's messaging — and over whether early dismissal distorted research and prescribing — remains contested in court (Apter v. HHS, revived by the Fifth Circuit in 2023 and later settled with the FDA removing the posts) and in public debate.