{"id":89102,"date":"2026-05-13T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89102"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:40:20","slug":"surge-in-cancer-patients-taking-20-cent-wonder-drug-after-mel-gibson-cure-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/surge-in-cancer-patients-taking-20-cent-wonder-drug-after-mel-gibson-cure-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in cancer patients taking 20 cent &#8216;wonder drug&#8217; after Mel Gibson cure claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA231ymy.img?w=534&amp;h=302&amp;m=6&amp;x=230&amp;y=105&amp;s=78&amp;d=78\" alt=\"Actor Mel Gibson claimed to Joe Rogan last year that three of his friends with stage four cancer allegedly cured their disease with anti-parasitic drugs\u00a0ivermectin and fenbendazole\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prescriptions for the controversial anti-worming drug ivermectin have surged in the last year after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/tvshowbiz\/mel-gibson\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Mel Gibson<\/a>\u00a0claimed it cured his friends&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">cancers<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/surge-in-cancer-patients-taking-20-cent-wonder-drug-after-mel-gibson-cure-claims\/ar-AA231PJ2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a042a1f32ba48eb8c6d8d3769246f4a&amp;ei=45\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Prescriptions for the controversial anti-worming drug ivermectin have surged in the last year after\u00a0Mel Gibson\u00a0claimed it cured his friends&#8217;\u00a0cancers. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ivermectin.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89103,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions\/89103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}