Posted on 06/10/2022 4:32:53 PM PDT by blam
A Washington law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for interfering with the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
The Food and Drug Administration is facing legal action over statements made about ivermectin and its use against COVID-19. (Sonis Photography/Shutterstock)
The lawsuit was filed by Boyden Gray & Associates on behalf of three doctors who were disciplined for prescribing human-grade ivermectin to patients.
The firm’s founder, attorney Boyden Gray, is a former legal adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Gray told The Epoch Times that the FDA had violated well-established law that allows doctors to prescribe an FDA-approved drug as an off-label treatment.
Ivermectin was no different, he said. It was approved by the FDA in 1966.
“Congress recognized the importance of letting doctors be doctors and expressly prohibited the FDA from interfering with the practice of medicine,” Gray said.
“That is exactly what the FDA has done time and time again throughout this pandemic, assuming authority it doesn’t have and trying to insert itself in the medical decisions of Americans everywhere.”
The three plaintiffs in the case are Dr. Paul Marik of Virginia, Dr. Mary Bowden of Texas, and Dr. Robert Apter of Arizona.
Marik is a founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care 21 Alliance (FLCCC), a national nonprofit that promotes alternative COVID-19 treatments to the government-touted vaccine.
“The FDA has made public statements on ivermectin that have been misleading and have raised unwarranted concern over a critical drug in preventing and treating COVID-19,” Marik told The Epoch Times. “To do this is to ignore both statutory limits on the FDA’s authority and the significant body of scientific evidence from peer-reviewed research.”
According to Marik, more than 80 medical trials conducted since the outbreak of COVID-19 show that ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment for the virus.
Gray said the FDA has engaged in unlawful interference with the use of ivermectin and should be held accountable for that.
The lawsuit included several statements made by the FDA that Gray said show that the administration interfered with the use of ivermectin.
They include an Aug. 21, 2021, Twitter post by the agency: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
The post, with an image of a horse and a doctor, has a headline that reads, “Why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.”
Marik, Bowden, and Apter are among a number of U.S. doctors across the United States who have been disciplined for prescribing ivermectin.
Marik, a critical care specialist, was suspended by Sentara Norfolk General Hospital for prescribing ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. Bowden, an ear, nose, and throat specialist, was suspended from the Houston Medical Hospital. Apter was under investigation by both the Washington Medical Commission and Arizona Medical Board for prescribing ivermectin.
Marik was recently informed that he was under investigation by the medical licensing board in Virginia.
Gray filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Texas.
The doctors are seeking a permanent injunction that would prohibit the FDA from interfering with the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.
Dishonest Nigerian.
You wove a cacophony of buzzword into your incoherent response and attack. No I think ivermectin is weakly useful if at all. Please see also that I had wide access to monoclonals. Because of the equivocal experience with ivermectin combines with data that was at best marginal instead of rx this medication I went right to the superior treatment that has data behind it demonstrating superiority. I am aware that other parts of the country did not have access to what I had which is awful.
I am glad the lawsuit was brought because as I said I support the autonomous practice of a physician including myself and understand who and what has prescriptive authority.
As for the vaccines. Different story. I have not boosted despite your bizarre statement as I don’t think it’s necessary given the normal evolution of a pandemic to a contagious but not serious course of disease. As I have said many times. It’s over and this was even more evidenced by the termination of CoVId testing to enter the country.
As for safe and effective I have offered direct proof that those vaccinated during delta survived breakthrough infections while the vast majority is deaths occurred in the unvaccinated. Ask anyone who treated the disease a year ago and what we faced
Your problem quite frankly is you have no idea what you are talking about and double down on not understanding context. Many of us can see the data for what it is and evaluate it to a proper conclusion.
And I find it funny that you must have a jostle compliance with your position otherwise you resort to personal attacks. A sign of a tyrant. So be it. You are what you are. Often wrong and never in doubt.
Good day.
I have complies with your request Jane to not respond to you. As you are clearly using bagster to circumvent my reciprocal request I politely ask both of you to no longer respond to my posts.
Thank you for your kindness and equality of testament as you also request.
A pleasant evening to both.
Thanks for clarifying. That was the thrust of my question. What is the tort against the FDA. I agree the state boards are the one who should be sued.
I say that’s a great hypothesis.
Much more accurate than any of the typical FRoctor blather.
#TheGuiltBurns
Yes, additional details about the suit would be good
Aren’t the state boards using the FDA as cover?
“Yes I was absolutely diagnosing and treating covid patients. Additionally I had access to monoclonals on demand. So once I saw several ivermectin failures I just went right to monoclonals and had much better success.”
Liar.
I know some of the MDs who use IVM and HCQ. And frontline nurses. I have provided elements of the FLCCC protocols to friends and they have recovered within a day or two. There’s no rocket science with this kind of viral treatment, provided it is done early. A lay person can help for about $40. I have helped, and will continue to do so. We put you trained MD monkeys to shame just by printing out the I-mask protocol and dropping a box of supplements on a sick persons door step. One friend I helped was feeling better within 2 hours. And back at work within 3 days. Before I helped her she described a feeling of being hit by a freight train. Confirmed delta variant. I also helped her get her religious exemption at her hospital (which was approved). Meanwhile all the nurses I know are seeing PE’s and sudden aggressive cancer in their LTC patients. All of them vaxxed.
I love the blood sport, it’s fun... but we should give consideration to experience & POVs without making it personal. And there’s no monopoly on experience.
We’ve seemed to lose our better nature at the expense of insights.
I’m being selfish by asking for cooperation. I want information. I don’t care if it’s fantasy or fact. The volume of data will eventually sort itself out.
BTW, in gas’ defense, he’s previously provided details about the advantages and availability of monoclonals — an alternative to the vax. That’s a good thing.
The FDA and State Medical Boards have no legal or regulatory relationship.
Absolutely. To absolve the FDA because of 'state boards', like our friendly vax_dr does, is to not understand the nature of socialism and 'the deep state' and is completely naive.
Let us not be children.
Sometimes experience can blind a man, make him arrogant, and close his mind. This is what has happened to gassie, who refuses to see the truth that is right there in front of him and has given him his 'god complex'.
He deserves every inch of the pain for his arrogance, and then some. His type of Fauci-like attitude and behavior has cost lives.
Don't go gettin' soft on us, Mister Eric.
The clot shots wouldn’t have been approved if effective alternate treatments were already available. That’s the reason Ivermectin & HCQ were banned.
THIS is he real reason, good post. It’s official policy not to approve experimental vaccines when therapies exist, so all existing therapies were ruled ineffective, including HCQ.
Exactly.
Arrogance, or....incompetence?
Telling, for sure. ;-)
The two CAN coexist.
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