Guest guest Posted October 24, 2001 Report Share Posted October 24, 2001 The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry For more info go to: http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing-internet/politics/pc/uk/index.htm 1. The natural purpose and driving force of the pharmaceutical industry is to increase sales of pharmaceutical drugs for ongoing diseases and to find new diseases to market existing drugs. 2. By this very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs as a source of revenues. Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve symptoms, but not to cure. 3. If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed, the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to suppress, discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order to make sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative prescription drug market. 4. The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry itself is the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for the control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis, and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a worldwide scale. 5. For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has now formed an international cartel by the code name ³Codex Alimentarius² with the aim to outlaw any health information in connection with vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies on a worldwide scale. 6. At the same time, the pharmaceutical companies withhold public information about the effects and risks of prescription drugs and life-threatening side effects are omitted or openly denied. 7. In order to assure the status quo of this deceptive scheme, a legion of pharmaceutical lobbyists is employed to influence legislation, control regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA), and manipulate medical research and education. Expensive advertising campaigns and PR agencies are used to deceiving the public. 8. Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Repost of message # 7 of this group from when it was started. There have been thousands more posted since about big Pharma. F. , califpacific wrote: > The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry > > For more info go to: > http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing- internet/politics/pc/uk/index.htm > > > 1. The natural purpose and driving force of the pharmaceutical > industry is to increase sales of pharmaceutical drugs for ongoing > diseases and to find new diseases to market existing drugs. > > 2. By this very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest > in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys > a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs as a source of > revenues. > Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to > relieve symptoms, but not to cure. > > 3. If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and > developed, the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to > suppress, discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order > to make sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative > prescription drug market. > > 4. The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry itself is > the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for the > control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, > high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and > osteoporosis, and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a > worldwide scale. > > 5. For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has > now formed an international cartel by the code name ³Codex > Alimentarius² with the aim to outlaw any health information in > connection with vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies > on a worldwide scale. > > 6. At the same time, the pharmaceutical companies withhold public > information about the effects and risks of prescription drugs and > life-threatening side effects are omitted or openly denied. > > 7. In order to assure the status quo of this deceptive scheme, a > legion of pharmaceutical lobbyists is employed to influence > legislation, control regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA), and manipulate > medical research and education. Expensive advertising campaigns and PR > agencies are used to deceiving the public. > > 8. Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded > twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the > exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are > offered a medicine that does not even cure. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Anna, There is NO reason why we can't get together and present a united front against the pharmaceutical industry. Either we can do it from this group (if Frank allows it) or form a specialized group. If a lot of people got together and sent tons of e-mails to the media and called locally and e-mailed and snail mailed congress, there would be changes. I observed this in regard to some anti-breed laws passed in Germany and it worked there and it can work here. Unfortunately, most people love to complain to each other, but when it comes to addressing congress and the media, they become nervous and avoid doing so. Let's roll now ! Shirley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 These comments about the nature of the pharmaceutical industry are most valid. I wish there was a political party that was willing to take on the pharmaceutical companies. Sadly, however, the government and opposition parties are in the pockets of the drug pushers. Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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