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Food and Drug Administration, threatening to fire employees for “aggressive suppression” of raw milk, psychedelics and discredited COVID-era treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

Many of the other items in his litany have been shown to be ineffective for their marketed purposes — ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, for example, have been touted as treatments for COVID-19 even though scientific studies have shown them to be useless against the disease.

In 2023, GOP-appointed judges on the right wing-dominated 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FDA had exceeded its authority in advising against the use of ivermectin against COVID.

He specifically accused the agency of “aggressive suppression” of stem cells as well as “psychedelics, peptides, ... raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine ... and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.”

There weren’t many commercial breaks throughout the broadcast, but Gaetz did read off some ad copy for a pharmacy that stocks Ivermectin.