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 ...
Never said anything about horse paste. Just that the article referenced in the op stated that it became noticed in 2021 and that it was widely fiscussed in 2020. Even here. The article is in error on that.
I thought you were talking about something important. My mistake.
There isn’t one ounce of truth in this article (not a surprise it’s MSN). Ivermectin works- it is a medical fact.
Doctors had the right to prescribe it off-label but the bureaucracy did everything imaginable to make it difficult to impossible in the case of covid. Trump seemingly didn’t know that and Pence, who should have, was asleep at the switch.
You’ve made many. Feeling self important is one. But the mistake in that article makes one wonder about the rest of it. That was a key miss.
Trump mucked the whole thing up.
So full of wonderment you are.
I am, arent I.
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