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* '''when''': [[when posted::2021-07-28]] | * '''when''': [[when posted::2021-07-28]] | ||
* '''author''': [[author::David R. Henderson]] and [[author::Charles L. Hooper]] | * '''author''': [[author::David R. Henderson]] and [[author::Charles L. Hooper]] | ||
| − | * '''source''': [[ | + | * '''source''': [[source::Wall Street Journal]] |
* '''topics''': [[topic::ivermectin]] | * '''topics''': [[topic::ivermectin]] | ||
* '''keywords''': [[content type::editorial]] | * '''keywords''': [[content type::editorial]] | ||
* '''link''': [[URL::https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronavirus-masks-anti-science-11627482393]] | * '''link''': [[URL::https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronavirus-masks-anti-science-11627482393]] | ||
* '''title''': [[title::Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?]] | * '''title''': [[title::Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?]] | ||
| − | * '''summary''': [[Summary:: | + | * '''summary''': [[Summary::{{fmt/quote|The [[US/FDA|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. | '''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. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:16, 4 July 2022
- 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
- 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.