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 The FDA was taken to court by three doctors regarding its posts and website that referenced ivermectin.  

You might recall the following verbiage in the FDAs Twitter feed:  “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it” that led to an FDA article that said: “Why You Should Not Take Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.” 

In the lawsuit, Bowden’s attorneys cited U.S. Code stating that the FDA “may not interfere with the authority of a health care provider to prescribe or administer any legally marked device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship.”

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“FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise-but not to endorse, denounce, or advise,” wrote Judge Don Willett for a panel of three 5th Circuit judges last year. “The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to.”

The FDA has 21 days to scrub all of its posts and website.

As a reminder, organizations such as the AMA used the FDA’s posts and website as a basis to demonize physicians that prescribed ivermectin for off-label use.  To back up the FDA’s contention that ivermectin  should only be used for animals and that it is primarily a horse dewormer, there was a flood of ‘increases in calls to poison control’ articles that came out at the same time.  I HIGHLY recommend reading this article regarding that issue (it also goes into the deaths directly caused by Fauci’s favorite drug-remdesivir).

Pharmacists even got into the act and were allowed to not dispense ivermectin.

At her San Diego pharmacy, Lee explained to her patient she wasn’t comfortable filling his ivermectin prescription because the FDA hadn’t approved it for that use. She told the employee at his doctor’s office the same thing. Rather than put up a fight, the employee said they’d just send the prescription to another pharmacy.

The FDA is getting off lightly by just having to remove these posts long after the damage has been done.