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Dr. Paul Marik joined “The Defender In-Depth” this week to discuss how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to delete online materials and social media posts discouraging the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in order to settle a lawsuit.
Marik, chief scientific officer of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance and former chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, was a plaintiff in the lawsuit, along with Dr. Mary Talley Bowden and Dr. Robert Apter.
The FDA has 21 days to delete the tweets and online materials in question.
Marik discussed the lawsuit and settlement, the effectiveness of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 and efforts by the scientific and public health communities to censor such information.
He also discussed the rise in turbo cancers, which he attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.
‘FDA is not a physician’
Marik said he and his co-plaintiffs sued the FDA because of “their false posts, and their false accusations or false pretenses that they made about ivermectin” and because the FDA “exceeded their statutory authority” in doing so.
Referring to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ September 2023 ruling that the FDA exceeded its authority, Marik said the judge in that case told the FDA that “you are not a physician. You’re not in a position to dictate how physicians practice medicine.”
Marik said that while the FDA has the power and the regulatory authority to regulate drugs, it is not in a position to influence how doctors behave. “Essentially, that’s what the case was about.”
According to the plaintiffs, the FDA influenced the narrative regarding ivermectin through various statements, publications and social media posts.
This content included an infamous August 2021 tweet stating, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” which linked to an FDA webpage, “Why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.”
Marik said the settlement does not affect the 5th Circuit’s ruling, which now stands as legal precedent.
“This will be a very important precedent going forward because it will … limit the authority of the FDA and likely the other healthcare agencies,” Marik said.
‘They wanted the mRNA platform to become … the standard’
Marik said that because of the FDA’s messaging, physicians and the public believed that ivermectin was made for animals and that it was a toxic horse dewormer.
“That was completely false and fabricated,” Marik said. “Billions of doses [of ivermectin] have been used in millions of patients. It’s one of the safest medications on the planet.”
Calling ivermectin “a truly astonishing drug,” Marik said that in addition to being very effective against a range of parasitic diseases, it’s also effective against several RNA viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
“It acts via a number of mechanisms to inhibit replication of the virus,” he said. “It also has anti-inflammatory properties.”
Marik said the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance included ivermectin in its COVID-19 early treatment protocol for these reasons, noting that “where ivermectin was readily available, [it] resulted in a significantly lower risk of hospitalization and death.”
He said its safety and effectiveness are supported by “101 studies [involving] 140,000 patients from 29 countries.”
Ivermectin reduces hospitalization and ivermectin reduces death, according to Marik, who called it “a very safe and cheap drug … [that] achieves what the vaccines just cannot achieve.”
According to Marik, the FDA strongly discouraged the use of ivermectin because the drug was “a serious threat to Big Pharma and the pharma-industrial complex” and because its effectiveness would make it impossible to issue emergency use authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 vaccines.
The FDA “had to do whatever they could to demonize ivermectin,” Marik said. He accused the FDA of “lying” because to affirm ivermectin as a treatment “would have nullified the EUA” for the vaccines. “The whole point … was to get a vaccine in the arm of every person on this planet.”
The FDA worked hard to control the narrative because the agency wanted the mRNA platform to become established as the standard, and there were “trillions of dollars at stake,” Marik said.
‘The basis of science is an exchange of information’
Noting that in December 2021, the FDA sent a letter to the Federation of State Medical Boards suggesting that ivermectin is not suitable for treating COVID-19, Marik said many healthcare practitioners lost their ability to practice after their licenses were withdrawn because they prescribed ivermectin.
In July 2021, the federation issued a press release suggesting that state medical boards discipline doctors who prescribe ivermectin or publicly speak in favor of it as a treatment for COVID-19. This resulted in state medical boards launching disciplinary proceedings against doctors in several states.
Marik said:
“Any dissenting voice or opinion was censored. We are considered ‘misinformationists,’ which is truly a bizarre paradox because it is the federal government and these agencies that are perpetuating the misinformation.
“It’s a fundamental First Amendment right for people to have a conversation … The basis of science is an exchange of information.”
‘Multiple mechanisms’ by which COVID vaccines may cause turbo cancer
Calling the mRNA vaccines “neither safe nor effective,” Marik also addressed the “explosion” of turbo cancers since the 2021 global rollout of the shots.
Data show “a massive increase in the risk of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer, uterine cancer [and] prostate cancer … beyond what one would have expected” in young people, Marik said.
He pointed to “multiple mechanisms” by which the vaccines may be associated with the development of cancer, noting that the “Pfizer documents” revealed more than “42,000 serious adverse events and 1,200 deaths related to the vaccine” in the first three months after their release.
“We knew this in February of 2021, and yet they continued with the vaccines, and they continue to this day with the vaccines,” Marik said. “It really is a crime against humanity.”
Marik said mainstream media narratives have led many people to believe the term “turbo cancer” was invented by “anti-vaxxers” to propagate the “false narrative” that these tumors are associated with the vaccine. “And obviously, again, that’s a false statement,” he said.
Marik cited the example of the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, “who is 42 years old, otherwise in good health, has some undisclosed abdominal cancer” which he said could be turbo cancer related to the vaccines.
Turbo cancers are “going to become a major issue,” according to Marik, who predicted they will become the leading cause of death in Western nations in the coming years.
Referring back to the legal settlement with the FDA, Marik said, “The hope is that, going forward, the FDA will react and respond in a more responsible fashion that has to do with public health,” noting that this is the first case where “the limits of the FDA have been clearly defined.”
“The FDA, although they may not have been the only player … in perpetuating this falsehood, they certainly have blood on their hands,” Marik said. “Millions of patients died who needn’t have died.”
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