This goes WAY beyond whether or not this medication is available. If upheld it opens the door for just about any medication/vaccines/treatments to be challenged. It doesn't matter how long they have been used or how successful. Many of the meds that are old standards were used way before the current regs were instituted. While most people are freaking about this med a fair amount of us are freaking about the potential for complete chaos as wackos file cases and we get conflicting rulings. The potential for huge legal bills as things wend their way thru the system- get appealed, overturnrned, challenged, etc. If you were whining before about the cost of meds wait til you see what happens when they tack on the overhead for this.
The dark ages. [Early Middle Ages ...in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual and cultural decline.] Always wondered how this was managed. They managed to suppress and label as evil- science, culture, medicine. They killed the herbalists, the healers and labeled them witches. They labeled many treatments evil. It didn't matter how far they fell, how many people died from lack of treatment, how squalid, dangerous, or amoral, it only mattered they stayed in power.
Unbelievable as it seems, it looks like we are getting to see a replay of how this was managed. Dismantling of the medical system- the uneducated ignorant are ignoring, delegitimizing and labeling as evil, things they don't understand. If you told me, even 10 yrs ago this would be possible I would have laughed. Not laughing now. This is dam scary and the long term implications are even more so. Even if this case doesn't succeed, the legal system is no longer trustworthy. Practicing medicine is like a giant minefield- the jeopardy for practicing evidence based medicine is real depending on where you are, or as this shows- even if you chose to avoid the crazy places.
