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Joe Rogan Nods Along As Mel Gibson Claims His Friends Were Cured of Stage 4 Cancer By by ivermectin, fenbendazole (another animal dewormer), and methylene blue (a fabric dye) (www.mediaite.com)

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well at least methylene blue is harmless. I used to put it in my coworker's coffee to turn their piss blue.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Its interactions can be very far from harmless.

[–] heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Harmless or not, making other people unknowingly ingest substances is NOT OKAY

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

It's fucked up that one person downvoted you for this.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You don't know anything about the relationship. If my best friend had done that at work back in the day, I'd laugh. "Mother fucker gonna pay on this."

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sure you two had a good rapport and it was okay to mess with each other, and that you weren't drugging strangers.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that’s poisoning and i would fuck up a coworker for doing that to me

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think poisoning implies its something toxic. But point taken.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you don’t know my tolerances to different synthetic chemicals

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know your body doesn't absorb it, so I know it doesn't matter.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-drug-safety-communication-serious-cns-reactions-possible-when-methylene-blue-given-patients

here’s just one example of how you could’ve killed your coworker by poisoning their food with methylene blue.

but, also it has MAOI properties, meaning it’s not only absorbed into the body, it passes the blood-brain barrier and can interact with a whole slew of different drugs…
i.e. you did something very horrible, and criminal, and you should feel bad…. and if my coworker “pranks” me by putting anything into my food, we’re going to have a very very big problem.

tl;dr you’re not a doctor because you heard somewhere it’s not absorbed into the body and is harmless.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Methylene blue is used as an antifungal for aquarium fish.