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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== | ==Links== | ||
| + | * '''2021-08-31''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_6VuaLXLTU Why Are People **REALLY** Taking Horse Dewormer for COVID-19?] (Rebecca Watson): a scientific deep dive | ||
| + | * '''2021-08-24''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dByVMsE08FA Let's talk about the feed store and public health....] (Beau of the Fifth Column) | ||
* '''2021-08-21''' [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/21/2047384/-YES-Rachel-Maddow-Fractures-FOX-News-For-Hawking-a-Horse-Dewormer-as-a-COVID-Cure YES! Rachel Maddow Fractures FOX News For Hawking a Horse Dewormer as a COVID Cure] | * '''2021-08-21''' [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/21/2047384/-YES-Rachel-Maddow-Fractures-FOX-News-For-Hawking-a-Horse-Dewormer-as-a-COVID-Cure YES! Rachel Maddow Fractures FOX News For Hawking a Horse Dewormer as a COVID Cure] | ||
* '''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. | * '''2021-08-02''' [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. | ||
Revision as of 23:42, 31 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
- 2021-08-31 Why Are People **REALLY** Taking Horse Dewormer for COVID-19? (Rebecca Watson): a scientific deep dive
- 2021-08-24 Let's talk about the feed store and public health.... (Beau of the Fifth Column)
- 2021-08-21 YES! Rachel Maddow Fractures FOX News For Hawking a Horse Dewormer as a COVID Cure
- 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
- Misleading and Dishonest Wall Street Journal Article on Ivermectin (video) by Hank Green
- 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.