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'''Short Answer''': The FDA is not attacking the drug. It's trying to warn people against taking animal-approved formulations of it (which has been happening due to the influence of articles like this) for a purpose for which the drug has not yet been shown to be safe and effective. Many studies are under way – but the data have not yet come in, and the FDA is acting entirely appropriately in that light. | '''Short Answer''': The FDA is not attacking the drug. It's trying to warn people against taking animal-approved formulations of it (which has been happening due to the influence of articles like this) for a purpose for which the drug has not yet been shown to be safe and effective. Many studies are under way – but the data have not yet come in, and the FDA is acting entirely appropriately in that light. | ||
| + | ==Links== | ||
| + | * '''2021-08-02''' [https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2021/08/02/ivermectin-attack-fda Attack on Ivermectin – With insights from The Wall Street Journal] by Jarryd Neves: no, the piece was not written by the WSJ; it was an outside editorial. | ||
| + | * '''2021-07-29''' [https://www.econlib.org/how-scientific-is-the-fda/ How Scientific is the FDA?] by David Henderson, one of the authors of the WSJ piece | ||
| + | ===Discussion=== | ||
| + | * [https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/comments/ouirlp/wsj_why_is_the_fda_attacking_a_safe_effective_drug/ Reddit] | ||
| + | * Hacker News: | ||
| + | ** [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054862 2021-08-03] "Bullshit article. the FDA isn't attacking, they're pointing out that a drug certified for treating roundworm and similar parasitic infections is not certified for treating COVID-19, and that relying on it for that purpose might turn out badly. / From the headline onwards, this whole article is [[concern trolling]]..." | ||
| + | ** [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28011272 2021-07-30] "In Brazil, there are people needing liver transplantation because they used Ivermectin to "treat" Covid." | ||
| + | * [https://twitter.com/pbhushan1/status/1420667264076898306?lang=en Prashant Bushan on Twitter] "Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it. / No doubt that FDA is acting under the influence of big Pharma and vaccine companies." Um, there is no evidence for this at all. | ||
Revision as of 21:19, 5 August 2021
- when: 2021-07-28
- author: David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper
- source: Wall Street Journal
- topics: ivermectin
- keywords: editorial
- link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronavirus-masks-anti-science-11627482393
- title: Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?
- summary: “The Food and Drug Administration claims to follow the science. So why is it attacking ivermectin, a medication it certified in 1996?“ Short Answer: It isn't, and this opinion-piece is stuffed full of misleading claims.
Short Answer: The FDA is not attacking the drug. It's trying to warn people against taking animal-approved formulations of it (which has been happening due to the influence of articles like this) for a purpose for which the drug has not yet been shown to be safe and effective. Many studies are under way – but the data have not yet come in, and the FDA is acting entirely appropriately in that light.
Links
- 2021-08-02 Attack on Ivermectin – With insights from The Wall Street Journal by Jarryd Neves: no, the piece was not written by the WSJ; it was an outside editorial.
- 2021-07-29 How Scientific is the FDA? by David Henderson, one of the authors of the WSJ piece
Discussion
- Hacker News:
- 2021-08-03 "Bullshit article. the FDA isn't attacking, they're pointing out that a drug certified for treating roundworm and similar parasitic infections is not certified for treating COVID-19, and that relying on it for that purpose might turn out badly. / From the headline onwards, this whole article is concern trolling..."
- 2021-07-30 "In Brazil, there are people needing liver transplantation because they used Ivermectin to "treat" Covid."
- Prashant Bushan on Twitter "Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it. / No doubt that FDA is acting under the influence of big Pharma and vaccine companies." Um, there is no evidence for this at all.