Dave Knapp
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Yeah, yeah. There's a lot to unpack here. When the OFA originally brought this case... The OFA, which again is a trade organization that represents these big manufacturers of compound drugs that are produced in times of shortage, they are located in Fort Worth, Texas. In Fort Worth District Court, there is a judge. His name is Judge Mark Pittman. And Judge Pittman has been an absolute...
Yeah, yeah. There's a lot to unpack here. When the OFA originally brought this case... The OFA, which again is a trade organization that represents these big manufacturers of compound drugs that are produced in times of shortage, they are located in Fort Worth, Texas. In Fort Worth District Court, there is a judge. His name is Judge Mark Pittman. And Judge Pittman has been an absolute...
Yeah, yeah. There's a lot to unpack here. When the OFA originally brought this case... The OFA, which again is a trade organization that represents these big manufacturers of compound drugs that are produced in times of shortage, they are located in Fort Worth, Texas. In Fort Worth District Court, there is a judge. His name is Judge Mark Pittman. And Judge Pittman has been an absolute...
I mean, I think he's just been great with some of his rulings against the FDA and Big Pharma. One in particular was just in December, over early December, over the COVID vaccine from Pfizer. And the FDA had kind of had this sort of handshake with Pfizer that they wouldn't release documents pertaining to adverse effects of the vaccine for like 40 years or something like that.
I mean, I think he's just been great with some of his rulings against the FDA and Big Pharma. One in particular was just in December, over early December, over the COVID vaccine from Pfizer. And the FDA had kind of had this sort of handshake with Pfizer that they wouldn't release documents pertaining to adverse effects of the vaccine for like 40 years or something like that.
I mean, I think he's just been great with some of his rulings against the FDA and Big Pharma. One in particular was just in December, over early December, over the COVID vaccine from Pfizer. And the FDA had kind of had this sort of handshake with Pfizer that they wouldn't release documents pertaining to adverse effects of the vaccine for like 40 years or something like that.
It was longer than that. 40 or 70 or something. Yeah, it was like 75 years. It was crazy. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Ridiculous, right? And so he comes in and he goes, no, you're going to start releasing 50,000 pages a month immediately.
It was longer than that. 40 or 70 or something. Yeah, it was like 75 years. It was crazy. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Ridiculous, right? And so he comes in and he goes, no, you're going to start releasing 50,000 pages a month immediately.
It was longer than that. 40 or 70 or something. Yeah, it was like 75 years. It was crazy. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Ridiculous, right? And so he comes in and he goes, no, you're going to start releasing 50,000 pages a month immediately.
Yeah, yeah. So he's a hero. Yeah, so there really couldn't have been a better venue or a better judge like on the surface. I don't... pretend to know like all the judges and all that. I don't any judges before I got into this stuff. But when I saw that, I was like, this is our guy, right? And the need, right?
Yeah, yeah. So he's a hero. Yeah, so there really couldn't have been a better venue or a better judge like on the surface. I don't... pretend to know like all the judges and all that. I don't any judges before I got into this stuff. But when I saw that, I was like, this is our guy, right? And the need, right?
Yeah, yeah. So he's a hero. Yeah, so there really couldn't have been a better venue or a better judge like on the surface. I don't... pretend to know like all the judges and all that. I don't any judges before I got into this stuff. But when I saw that, I was like, this is our guy, right? And the need, right?
And so if anybody was going to sort of see that there is like something inherently wrong with the fact that there's no transparency in this process, that the FDA is just relying on reported numbers from Eli Lilly, that there's got to be some kind of conflict in there, right?
And so if anybody was going to sort of see that there is like something inherently wrong with the fact that there's no transparency in this process, that the FDA is just relying on reported numbers from Eli Lilly, that there's got to be some kind of conflict in there, right?
And so if anybody was going to sort of see that there is like something inherently wrong with the fact that there's no transparency in this process, that the FDA is just relying on reported numbers from Eli Lilly, that there's got to be some kind of conflict in there, right?
Like even if everything's on the up and up, let's say there's still something wrong with that process where that's the only information that gets you know, sort of taken into consideration by the FDA to determine that the drug's commercially available.
Like even if everything's on the up and up, let's say there's still something wrong with that process where that's the only information that gets you know, sort of taken into consideration by the FDA to determine that the drug's commercially available.
Like even if everything's on the up and up, let's say there's still something wrong with that process where that's the only information that gets you know, sort of taken into consideration by the FDA to determine that the drug's commercially available.
So the trisepatide lawsuit has not evolved the way that I maybe thought it would based upon the judge, but we actually had a correspondent sit in on the one physical hearing that took place and he kind of gave me a call afterwards, gave me the rundown. He goes, this judge is extremely annoyed by the fact that this, that this, is even in his courtroom.
So the trisepatide lawsuit has not evolved the way that I maybe thought it would based upon the judge, but we actually had a correspondent sit in on the one physical hearing that took place and he kind of gave me a call afterwards, gave me the rundown. He goes, this judge is extremely annoyed by the fact that this, that this, is even in his courtroom.