"Doc, can I get an extra bottle to put on my crabgrass?"

A Georgia doctor has been indicted on 87 counts of health care fraud, money laundering and “distributing unapproved and misbranded drugs.”

Prosecutors said the doctor and assistant injected numerous patients with unapproved and misbranded drugs, including dinitrophenol, a commercial-grade weed killer and insecticide.

“It happens to have the same chemicals you use to treat lawns. But so does water. There’s probably something in the cookies you eat that is used in weed killers, too,” said the doctor’s attorney.

Pardon me for harumphing, but this argument seems to be a textbook example of the logical fallacy called Appeal to Common Practice:

1. X is a common action.
2. Therefore X is correct/moral/justified/reasonable, etc.

When the Bard of Avon wrote “diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance are reliev’d, / Or not at all,” he was justifying the execution of a certain vengeful nephew. Let’s not interpret this as a license to give desperate patients every cockamamie concoction stored in the tool shed.

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