Posted on 12/26/2023 6:10:35 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
A lawsuit attempting to punish the FDA for denouncing ivermectin as a COVID cure could have dangerous consequences
In 2021, a bizarre cure for COVID-19 began to emerge on social media, the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now under fire for its efforts to refute claims that the drugs could stop the deadly virus.
A group of doctors is now suing the FDA, saying the agency’s efforts to refute claims about the drug’s effectiveness against COVID caused them personal harm. Some experts fear that punishment the FDA could face for refuting false information about the drug could undermine public health messaging in America.
After a questionable later-retracted study claiming ivermectin could cure COVID emerged in 2021, many Americans began to seek it out. It especially became popular among people in communities that were skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccines and other pandemic measures such as masking and social distancing.......
“FDA decided to target that practice via the ‘horse’ message—and others like it. The messaging traveled widely across legacy and online media,” they write in their suit. “Left unmentioned in most of the messaging: ivermectin also comes in a human version. And while the human version of ivermectin is not FDA-approved to treat the coronavirus, some people were using it off-label for that purpose.”
Christopher Robertson, J.D., Ph.D. and Tina Watson, legal experts from Boston University, write in the New England Journal of Medicine that “If the case against the FDA ultimately prevails, the agency’s ability to protect the public and support evidence-based medicine could be eroded.”
They describe the Fifth Circuit's decision as “puzzling”. Judges in the case write that the FDA does not have the authority to endorse, denounce or advise on medical decisions — just the power to inform or announce.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
They wouldn’t have to have that concern, if they were led by science.
A lawsuit isn’t going to “undermine” the credibility of these “professional medical ‘experts’” ... they did that all by themselves.
Fixed it.
As it should be
As it SHOULD!
Sue the FDA, CDC and NIH out of existence!
Mistrust is high precisely because of this kind of cover up the truth attitude.
The FDA needs to be neutered.
Screw the FDA, MSN and the Messenger, the harder the better, put all the Liars out of business.
Hmmm. It says ivermectin began to appear as a cure in 2021. But it was 2020.
...could Undermine US pharmaceutical profits is more like it.
The article says Ivermectin began to emerge in 2021 as a cure. It was during the summer of 2020. These folks ain’t got their feces together.
they don’t care. None of them will be personally or professionally held liable.
I would like to see proof of this assertion. There were plenty of controlled studies at the time, mainly in India and Australia, to show that ivermectin was an effective treatment and is why some doctors prescribed it. I have seen no evidence to suggest this was a profit-making move.
If the case against the FDA ultimately prevails, the agency’s ability to protect the public and support evidence-based medicine could be eroded.”
And that is exactly what should happen. Dr. Fauci and others caused the death of thousands of patients who might have lived had they received the drug. Instead, the FDA crawled into bed with Big Pharma for their own vaccines.
As Milton Friedman once said, the FDA has killed more people than it's saved by preventing drugs from coming on the market in a timely fashion, a knee jerk reaction to their Thalidomide debacle.
The reason the FDA forbade Ivermectin and any other existing therapeutic drug to treat COVID is because the Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine was only valid if there was no other treatment available.
They had to lie to make the EAU legal.
I’m becoming convinced that my onset of gout came from my clot shots. Anyone else experience this?
We’ll need the republic back first.
And if Deep State had harmed anyone I loved, I wouldn’t be wanting money.
There wouldn’t be enough money on the planet.
“ Some experts fear that punishment the FDA could face for refuting false information about the drug could undermine public health messaging in America.”
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First, trusting experts to be objective and to follow *ACTUAL* science is what caused so many to die from THE CHINA VIRUS or completely misguided treatments for it, or from the so-called v”vaccine” that has turned much of the U.S. population into either guinea pigs or streams of cash flow to those regulators and their Big Pharma co-conspirators.
Second, if ANYONE is responsible for “undermining health messaging in America “ it is the aforementioned regulators at the FDA and their choir in Big Pharma.
Let the chips fall where they may, as such will expose the corruption and the totalitarian tendencies of much of our government. F’em!
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