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On Tuesday, Republican State Representative Jeff Holcomb filed a bill (HB 29) to allow ivermectin to be legally purchased without a prescription. In other words, over the counter. It’s still early, and the bill is far from being approved. But I’ve learned from insiders that the lower the bill number, the better. (Long-shot bills unsupported by the party usually get numbers in triple digits.) ...

The left-leaning paper saw an apocalypse of peril approaching. Look out! Misinformation! “Despite the potential health risks,” FlaPol warned readers, “several states including Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas have passed laws this year permitting over-the-counter sales of ivermectin.” Oh, no!

But on the other hand, Tylenol— by all means, eat them by the handfuls. Who cares what the FDA says?

The second Ivermectin story was even better. The Florida Pheonix ran another story about Florida and the anti-parasitic, headlined, “Ivermectin, from the Capitol to state-funded cancer research — it’s a thing in Florida.”

Let’s be honest. Thanks to chronic Trump Derangement, Ivermectin triggers liberals. Just hearing that word makes them fume and angrily clench their jaws until they crack their crowns. They fervently wish the Nobel-winning drug would just go away, or at least return to Africa or whatever uncredentialed hellhole it wriggled out of.

Covid was bad enough. But the idea of conservatives being allowed to treat their cancers with the inexpensive medicine makes liberals want to scream in futile rage.

So you can imagine how upset they were when, on Tuesday, Governor Ron DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis, and Surgeon General Joe Ladapo held a press conference at the University of South Florida for World Cancer Research Day, and announced $60 million in new cancer research grants.

Everything was going fine until Casey said she expected some part of the new funding to be used for cancer research on ivermectin. “We should look at it,” Mrs. DeSantis said. “We should look at the benefits of it. We shouldn’t just speculate and guess,” she added innocently, seemingly unaware of how badly progressives would take that news.

For purposes of full disclosure, I personally know two people so far who’ve been diagnosed with late-stage cancers, took ivermectin in combination with other treatments (but not high levels of chemo and radiation), and both made a full recovery and are now cancer-free. ...

Liberals like the Phoenix have shot far past admitting ivermectin-cancer studies exist. They could have stopped short at demanding a large-scale, peer-reviewed, “gold standard” double-blinded study. That would have been their best move. Large-scale studies on ivermectin and cancer were always unlikely, since pharma won’t fund them.

But instead, liberals have decided to simply refuse to concede even any possibility ivermectin might help. ...

You have to hand it to them. That level of disbelief takes work. Even a quick lawyer’s search turned up dozens of studies showing ivermectin’s promise for treating cancer.

I’ve cited others before, but here’s another new one, published this April in Medical Oncology:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40257544/
Antitumor potential of ivermectin against T-cell lymphoma-bearing hosts

“Ivermectin,” the researchers began, “has shown promising anticancer potential.” They continued, “Originally developed for veterinary and human use against parasitic infections, ivermectin demonstrated significant antitumor effects in our study against tumor cells.”

Over the last four years, other independent studies have found more remarkable results combining ivermectin with traditional chemotherapy or other repurposed drugs, like metformin (a diabetes drug) and tamoxifen (an estrogen antagonist).

You can show these studies to progressives, but what’s the point? They won’t listen. They’ll just sneer, gobble some Tylenol, and sarcastically ask, Doing your own research again? It’s kind of tragic.

“Generic medicines are often overlooked,” First Lady DeSantis said, “because they are off-patent and don’t necessarily promise big profits.” Florida’s 2025 budget allocated $218 million total for cancer, with $60 million carved out for nutrition and “the repurposing of generic drugs such as ivermectin for cancer treatment.”

As they say, talk is cheap. But Florida just did more than talk. It allocated $60 million for grants to study repurposed drugs in treating cancer. That is a tangible step toward Making America Healthy Again. So far as I can tell, this level of investment by any U.S. state in repurposed cancer drugs is a historic first.

Another ivermectin study is out, and like the long list of similar studies lately, it shows more cancer treatment potential. This one was published in July in ACS Biomaterials Science, titled, “Intranasal Delivery of Ivermectin Nanosystems as an Antitumor Agent: Focusing on Glioma Suppression.”

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5c00642

In short, the study found low-dose ivermectin shrank brain tumors by a whopping 70% in rats. The treated rodents also had less dead tissue, less swelling, and fewer new blood vessels forming, which means the remaining tumors were less invasive and less aggressive.

The ivermectin was delivered using a nasal spray in a very fine (nanoscale) form, since oral ivermectin can’t cross the blood-brain barrier. The rats that got the treatment showed no negative side effects.

The serendipitous discovery of ivermectin is one of the most remarkable stories in medical science. In the 1970s, Japanese microbiologist Satoshi Ōmura set out to find new microorganisms that might produce useful medicines. He collected hundreds of soil samples from around Japan, including one from a golf course in Kawana, south of Tokyo.

In one of his golf-course soil samples, Ōmura’s team isolated a previously unknown bacterium that produced compounds found to be extraordinarily effective at killing parasitic worms. He sent it to a U.S. lab at Merck, which developed ivermectin: a safer and even more potent chemical derivative of the bacterial compound.

As you know, in 2015, Ōmura and Merck researcher Bill Campbell jointly received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a cheap dirt drug that has saved millions from disease and blindness. If ivermectin’s cancer-fighting abilities bear out —and the studies and anecdotes keep mounting up— it will become the single most beneficial accidental discovery in human history.

Here’s a question to ponder: would ivermectin have broken out of the pharma wilderness absent its high-profile role during the pandemic as a cultural and political flashpoint? Without this extraordinary exposure, efforts to study ivermectin as a cancer agent would almost certainly have remained niche— buried in the literature amid hundreds of other “drug repurposing” efforts, lacking funding, conference time, or media coverage.

Ivermectin may wind up being the greatest covid miracle of all.