Doctors have filed a complaint against this tweet and the obstacles to the prescription of ivermectin, which could have saved lives. This landmark lawsuit was filed against the FDA by three physicians, Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik, and Robert Apter, and went to the Court of Appeals on August 8, 2023. Part of this lawsuit against the FDA was specific to fraudulent claims and illicit actions made by the agency against Ivermectin.
The FDA lawyers' defense is mind-boggling, the FDA backtracking on claiming that it never banned the prescription of ivermectin, and that physicians were free to prescribe. Indeed recommendation does not have force of law, but it exerted a considerable pressure on the whole of the medical profession and the pharmacists so that they prescribe this drug under no pretext. This led to a whole chain of anti-ivermectin actions and lawsuits against prescribers.
We have somewhat the same situation in France, with the ANSM which asserts that ivermectin does absolutely nothing, both curative and prophylactic, even when 100% of the 18 world publications on prophylaxis prove the opposite. The CPAMs, the ARS, the Order rely on these very questionable assertions, helped by part of the scientific community which has carried out dubious studies: off-indication (non-early treatments), and with young populations, without risk, who heal without treatment to see the few differences, unlike studies on real patients at risk such as those of Pierre Loué or Charlotte Bernigaud. All published in “peer-reviewed” journals funded by the pharmaceutical industry, which rushed to publish them as part of a coordinated effort to discredit ivermectin. The ANSM protected itself by writing, unlike the FDA: "you can prescribe", which those who fiercely pursue prescribers ignore, still in mid-2023.
Not only is the FDA now saying "it wasn't me, they were the ones who didn't want to prescribe", but its lawyer asserts that she cannot be held responsible for its recommendations, enjoying an "immunity sovereign” and cannot be held responsible for statements if they are misinterpreted, but also if they are misleading!
In the interventions (which can be found here) before the Court of Ashley Cheung Honold, lawyer for the FDA, in excerpt 4 we learn that even if the FDA statements on ivermectin were partially misleading, the The agency is not responsible for the loss of non-employment by doctors.
In excerpt 5 we learn that the FDA is headed by political leaders, held to account, and therefore that it can make political and non-scientific decisions, and that this is not the role of the courts of check the scientific statements of the FDA!
In excerpt 3, when the judge asks if the opinions can be scientific or not at all, the answer is: "There is nothing in the multiple sources of authority that I have cited that require the FDA to pass by any formal procedure”. We had the same attitude with the ANSM, when it was supposed to give an opinion on an authorization. We asked, as required by law, for the minutes of the meetings that led to a refusal, and we were told that there had been no meeting. We do not know who decided, nor according to what criteria. It is therefore simply the opinion of the ANSM, without knowing who, doctor or politician. The transparency required by law when the ANSM was created, following the Mediator scandal, was not respected. And due, it was not necessary that one then discuss their arguments, undoubtedly because they are… debatable.
After welcoming the effectiveness of the smear campaign, faced with the risk of condemnation for loss of chance for patients, saying "you could have prescribed and not listened to us, if there are consequences you are responsible, not us”, is unacceptable when millions of deaths were at stake. These words, which are an admission, should lead to the dissolution of these organizations which have done the opposite of what they were created for: to protect the populations. The AFSSAPS was dissolved for the same reasons, the creation of the ANSM did not change anything, faced with the financial power of the pharmaceutical industry, whose survival and well-being comes before that of the patients.
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