The FDA heavily discouraged use of Ivermectin, not because it didn’t work but because it did. And because it did, it posed a threat to Big Pharma’s Emergency Use Authorizations. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
yeah, well you are not a real public health agency…
we have seen a lot of wild and shady things from “health agencies” over the last few years, but this one was really in a class by itself.
the FDA took a safe, cheap, widely (including by they themselves) approved drug used by 250 million people each year and pretended it was somehow “not for humans.”
if you want to argue efficacy, then argue efficacy.
but all this “you are not a horse, you are not a cow, seriously stop it”? that has no place in public (or any) health.
this was WAY over the line into “interfering with doctor patient relationships” and “outright lying.”
and a court has recently weighed in on it.
many are calling this a victory, but i’m not so sure.
let’s look.
on the surface, this seems like a victory. the FDA was forced into a settlement by a court (the fifth circuit) that unanimously found they had overstepped and overturned a district court’s dismissal of the case. judge brown at the district level had claimed the FDA was covered by “sovereign immunity” and therefor not subject to challenge. this 3 judge panel ruled that this was not so.
that in itself is quite a big deal. it’s a reversal of the idea that “regulators get to regulate and do as they like and we all have to just deal with it.” because this particular campaign was ridiculous lies that would have exceeded FDA authority.
Eye am Spartacus! (s/)
We can’t stop here, this is Spartaaa!
I love those non chopped photos of the kid on a bike painted up as a unicorn complete with matching outfit.
That is fine in elementary school, not so much when you are grown.
I’ll do whatever is necessary to get through the night, that doesn’t mean I believe it.
Keep telling yourself that, you might even start to believe it as a long gone professor bud said. (h/t-HQ)
You get what you tolerate and participate in.
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I was left to die of covid. No doctor said take imervectine take zinc take vitamin D, take antivirals.
I survived. They should have done a better job. Now they have a friend.