Posted on 09/11/2023 6:42:00 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
federal appeals court allowed three doctors to sue the FDA over a series of website and social media posts condemning ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19. The doctors alleged the FDA exceeded its authority by offering medical advice and “that FDA’s messaging interfered with their own individual medical practice.”
The lawsuit stems from a series of FDA posts advising consumers not to take horse ivermectin but failing to acknowledge the existence of a human ivermectin formulation, including one tweet advising consumers, “Hold your horses, y’all”:
The trial court dismissed the doctors’ lawsuit after finding sovereign immunity barred their three claims. The appeals court reversed on one claim, finding plausible the argument the FDA exceeded its statutory authority by offering medical advice instead of medical information:
FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise. The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to. . . . Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond FDA’s statutory authority. (emphasis original)
The FDA argued its posts were purely informational, which the appeals court rejected:
On the contrary, all six of the Posts contain syntax that is imperative rather than declaratory (for example: “Stop it,” “Stop it with the #ivermectin,” and “Q: Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? A: No.”) For that reason, we are unable to draw any analytical distinction between FDA making the Posts versus FDA telling Americans to “Stop it” with acetaminophen or antibiotics.
The firm Boyden Gray, which represents the doctors, issued a press release praising the decision:
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
...and open the door to sue the FDA, the CDC, and the pharmaceutical korporations who pushed the Jim Jones Jab because alternative treatments void its Emergency Use Authorization.
Yep.
That would be great if the individual commissars had to pay out of their own pockets. But we all know that’s NOT how it will work. It will be the American taxpayer paying the bill, the people who are the true victims in the first place.
Applying professional judgement in determining a course of treatment for a patient is a medical doctor’s defining characteristic. If he surrenders that judgement to government or corporate bureaucrats, he’s no longer a doctor and is just some @sshole with a stethoscope and an expensive education.
“sue the FDA”
No, sue the PEOPLE that did it.
The FDA agency is just the Bogeyman.
It’s the PEOPLE that did it, they have to held to account.
That’s Retribution, not Vengeance.
Great! Hope every doctor that was fired or treated badly, and every pharmacist that was prevented from filling prescriptions for it sue over this!
Ivermectin is and has been Stromectol for a long time.
Hydroxychloroquine is Plaquenil, the most common RA/Lupus drug on the market.
Then there is another antiparasitic Flagyl, Metronidazole could counteract the majority of the immunopathological manifestations of the COVID-19 infection.
I agree with your statement; it is highly principled.
Practically, though, nearly every doctor's bread-and-butter these days is Medicare. It is the ongoing $tream that keep$ clinical $taff paid.
Buck the Feds and risk it? Hmmm.
I doubt that this will go anywhere.
There is no evidence that the anti-worm medication ivermectin works against viruses. None. Therefore, telling people that ivermectin is not a treatment for Covid based on the evidence is completely appropriate.
These “doctors” are out for publicity. Oh, and probably to sell snake oil.
The giverment will just keep fighting until they get a judge that give them what they want.
I agree. The people responsible for pushing the negative narrative and enforcing the edict should be punished, not the taxpayer. The people responsible should be destroyed and forced to live like paupers for the rest of their lives or better yet, executed for allowing many people to die when there was a a reasonable treatment against the Wuhan Virus.
that made me get ivermectin
that was evidence that it worked
Fauxchi? is that you???
Amen!
Popcorn event.
“It will be the American taxpayer paying the bill”
Whatever it might cost, it would be well worth it to have an official judgement that these doctors were WRONGED.
My GP told me Ivermectin and HCQ were worthless in treating covid. That was a couple of years ago. He hasn’t said a word since or mentioned the vaxx lately which I told him not in a million years. 😆
These “doctors” are out for publicity. Oh, and probably to sell snake oil.
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I don’t agree with ANYTHING you said but, other than the above highlighted sentence, on this subject, I’m not qualified to have much of an opinion other than gut instinct.
But, the above “it’s snake oil” statement I think is baloney. I believe these doctors a hell of a lot more than the feds. Obviously, you believe the FDA, an agency that in effect publicly admitted they lied about Covid. The fact that you clearly believe a liar on this subject probably explains your loyalties quite well.
“It will be the American taxpayer paying the bill”
Whatever it might cost, it would be well worth it to have an official judgement that these doctors were WRONGED.
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