"Right to Try" Drugs
Listened to a bit of Trump's Nevada rally diatribe and was struck in particular by his claim that "thousands" of lives have been saved by his Right to Try legislation (the "right" to make experimental phase one drugs available to terminally ill patients). A little investigation shows very much the opposite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law
" A federal right to try law was passed in May 2018. Very little data is available about the number of patients who have used the right-to-try pathway, but available sources indicate that since the signing of the bill only a handful of patients have used this pathway to access experimental therapies, as most physicians and sponsors prefer the more traditional, FDA approved, Expanded Access route.[3] According to Scott Gottlieb, who served as commissioner of the FDA under President Donald Trump, the FDA had already approved 99% of patient requests for access to experimental drugs, either immediately over the phone or within a few days, prior to the passage of right to try legislation.[4]"
More BS from the BS King.
He also ranted on about "persecution" of Catholics while giving nothing on what such persecution actually consists of. What's with that??