mr. gosar: they ordered you to. mr. califf: if you look at the randomized trials of ivermectin, and there are many of them now, there is no benefit of ivermectin in the treatment of covid. that's a fact. any drug for which there's no benefit in their risk, people have to make their own decisions about what to do. what we're plot doing is telling doctors what they have to do. doctors have the right to prescribe off label. >> your time has expired. the chair recognizes the ranking member for five minutes. mr. raskin: thank you. i'm going to follow up on this because this exchange to me was extremely illuminating because what we have here is the commissioner as the head of the federal drug administration and then we get a drive-by spray of propaganda, disinformation and ideological attacks. so let me try to sort some of this out and maybe we'll help to illuminate why we have a food and drug administration, rather than leave it to politicians to make decisions based on ideological whim. let's start with ivermectin, which i