FDA Weasels

Three doctors are suing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for impeding their ability to treat their patients with ivermectin during the pandemic. The FDA argues that its actions ridiculing ivermectin did not impede its use by these doctors.

Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said "the FDA never said doctors couldn't prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID. It just advised against it." She maintained that the FDA's tweet saying “'You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.' Was a whimsical way of conveying important information. It was not a command."

Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod observed that "in the context of the English language, using the words 'stop it' most certainly is a command. And how do you explain pressure on physicians to not prescribe and pharmacists not to fill prescriptions for ivermectin? These sound like efforts to impede doctors legal authority to use an FDA approved drug for an off-label use. And how about the doctors who lost hospital privileges or had their licenses to practice medicine threatened?"

Honold pointed out that "the FDA didn't directly refuse anyone permission to prescribe or dispense ivermectin to any specific individual patient. Neither did the FDA terminate any hospital privileges or revoke any licenses. Someone else did all those things. The fact is that the courts have no authority to hold the FDA accountable for anything it does. It has full immunity even when the information it provides is inaccurate or false."

In related news, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) says that "the Government Accountability Office (GAO) admission that the covid gain-of-function research carried out in the Wuhan lab was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) proves that Dr. Fauci lied under oath when he denied that we did not fund this research. It is the clearest case of perjury in testimony before Congress that I have ever seen." Fauci dismissed "Sen. Paul's ranting" saying "he fails to account for the fact that the essence of good government is knowing when a lie better serves the public good. A public admission that we had funded China's development of a more potent bio-weapon then would've harmed our efforts to induce Americans to accept being injected with the covid vaccine later."

SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE by John Semmens