[throwaway224466]

Ivermectin is proven to work, but it's out of patent. That means pharmaceutical companies can't profit from it. Hence the Ivermectin FUD campaign.

Big Pharma will do everything in their power, including manipulate the media, to buy time while they develop new oral Covid drugs with a slightly tweaked chemical composition (just enough for them to legally profit off it). Knowing they have a certain % of the population that will blindly follow and argue for them helps.

[nradov]

I'm skeptical of those conspiracy theories. Merck is the biggest of pharma and they still manufacture ivermectin. Apparently they're still making some profit on it.

https://www.merck.com/research-and-products/products-list/

[unanswered]

They will make more profit on the evergreen version of ivermectin they're working on.