FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information

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http://www.newstarget.com/012467.html FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) Here's a report on the FDA that could only come from outside theUnited States. I'm reading to you from The Independent, a Britishnewspaper, that says, "Vital data on prescription medication found inmillions of British homes has been suppressed by the powerful U.S.drug regulators, even though the information could potentially savelives." An investigation by The Independent states that, underpressure from the pharmaceutical industry, the American Food and DrugAdministration routinely conceals information it considerscommercially sensitive, leaving medical specialists unable to assessthe true risks. This no surprise to those who are regular readers of this site, but toa lot of consumers in the United States, it is a big surprise. Theycan't believe that the Food and Drug Administration would censor andsuppress drug safety information. They think the FDA is looking out toprotect them. The heroic FDA, protecting American consumers fromgreedy drug companies selling dangerous drugs, putting public safetyfirst and corporate profits last. Of course, that's all a myth. The real FDA: Profits first, safety lastHere's the real FDA, in my view: Colluding with drug companies,suppressing clinical trial data, covering up the truth about dangerousprescription drugs, refusing to pull drugs off the market even thoughthey are literally killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. TheFDA: Censoring its own drug safety scientists to make sure they don'tgo public with their information about how dangerous these drugs are.The FDA: Under the table deals with drug companies? Maybe. Lots ofpolitical influence with the leaders of drug companies? Probably.Covering up facts about the dangers of prescription drugs? Mostdefinitely. Absolutely. Without question. This is the FDA that we have here in the United States, running thedrug industry. Running it! The FDA that tries to create a monopolydrug market in this country by banning the import of genericprescription drugs from elsewhere around the world. This is an agencythat has attempted again and again to discredit Chinese medicine,nutritional supplements, herbal medicine and anything that wouldcompete with prescription drugs. It has sought to outlaw these naturalsubstances and herbs that have been proven healers for literally 2,000years in the history of medicine. This is the FDA that has put drugprofits first, and public safety last, time and time again. This is the agency that rigs its own safety panels. "Oh, is there adangerous drug out there? Let's have a panel and a hearing. Let's rigthe hearing with decision makers who are paid by pharmaceuticalcompanies. They're the ones who will get to vote." Wow, what a bigsurprise. They all voted to make the drug legal again. That's whathappened with Vioxx. Oh, it only killed 50,000 or 60,000 people. "Ahh,that's just a side effect," they said, and the panel voted to put itback on the market. "It's safe enough for us. We're the FDA."Apparently, a drug has to kill more than 60,000 people to beconsidered dangerous. Does it have to kill half a million people to be pulled by the FDA?How many Americans have to die before the FDA says, "This is adangerous drug. Maybe it shouldn't be on the market?" How manychildren have to be doped up on antidepressants, committing suicideand shooting each other in public schools before the FDA says, "Well,maybe children shouldn't be on these dangerous drugs that alter brainchemistry?" Think about this. How many senior citizens have to die of gastrointestinal bleeding fromthe consumption of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)before the FDA will say, "Gee, maybe they should have a warning onthem?" How many people have to die in this country before the FDA willstand up and do its job? When will the American people start listening? You know, everywhere else around the world, the FDA is a completejoke. Here's The Independent in the U.K., doing a report on the FDAthat you probably would never see in the United States. Why not?Because the mass media apologizes for the drug industry, and most ofthe media outlets in this country are funded by drug money. Look atany magazine, newspaper, or cable news program, and what do you see?Drug ads. Those ads are paying the salaries of the very people whodecide what's news and what isn't. Drugs, drugs everywhereHave you picked up a magazine lately? Have you picked up any of thosenews magazines on the newsstands? Have you picked up a medicaljournal? Did you notice that they're 50 percent drug ads? There'shardly any news in the news magazines at all. The news that you findis highly censored and edited. Much of the bad news about drugs issuppressed. Have you looked around your local community lately? Did you notice howmany pharmacies are being constructed? There's a drug store on everycorner, it seems. Even grocery stores are building pharmacies likemad. Everyone wants to get in the drug business all of a sudden. It'slike we have a country of drug pushers, drug runners, drug retailers,drug manufacturers and drug apologizers. And who's the Al Caponerunning the drug racket? The FDA, of course. And then we have this "War on drugs," which does really importantthings like outlawing hemp. Oh yes, hemp is so dangerous. My God, youcan make paper with it! It's so dangerous, this hemp. You can make apair of jeans out of hemp. You can make sails for ships out of hemp,as some history buffs know. You can make car bumpers out of hemp andrecyclable car parts. You can make biodiesel out of hemp. Oh, you canmake a lot of things out of hemp, including highly nutritious hempseeds, loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, outstanding for health andhuman nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition). The one thing youcan't do with hemp is get high from smoking it. The THC content is solow in industrial hemp that you'd have to smoke a hundred pounds ofhemp just to feel anything resembling a buzz. And yet we have tooutlaw hemp in this country because we're fighting "the war on drugs!"Meanwhile, the real drug threat is prescription drugs. They're the 4thleading cause of death in this country. And they remain perfectlylegal. Hmmm... are the politicians smoking crack? America is a drug nationThe FDA: The Fraud and Drug Administration. Making sure everyone inAmerica has the right to keep on buying, selling and consuming drugs.I remember we used to have a society in which Nancy Regan would teachchildren to say, "Just say no to drugs." We used to have signs infront of our schools that said, "This is a drug-free zone." In fact,we still have some of these signs, but if you walk past these signsand walk into the school, you find out that as many as 30 to 40percent of these children are on drugs. They're on powerful narcoticsthat have been prescribed to them by doctors, psychiatrists and schoolcounselors, and pushed onto them by school administrators and parentswho are cowering in fear over what might happen if their little Johnnydoesn't stop being so hyper. We've got to put them on drugs! It's adrug nation; a pharmaceutical factory. We have so many kids on drugsthat they've actually made it illegal not to put your kids on drugs! There's a family that fought child protective services authoritiesbecause they didn't want to put their daughter on chemotherapy drugs.They wanted to treat their daughter naturally, with their own methodof healing. But the state said, "No, you can't do that. We're going toforce your child to be poisoned with chemotherapeutic agents thatgenerate profits for prescription drug companies... chemical agentsthat don't have any sort of documented benefit for enhancing thelifespan of kids or adult patients, and yet are used by everyoncologist in the country. We're going to force these drugs into thebody and bloodstream of your daughter. We're going to take yourdaughter away from you." And they did. That's how drugged up we are inthis nation. We've made drugs mandatory. We're drugging each other, and when we refuse to be drugged, we invokethe law and steal children from parents and put people in jail; yet,you still can't grow hemp. Oh no, hemp's dangerous. Oh boy, what wouldhappen if everyone grew hemp? Gee, let's see, you'd have a hugemulti-billion dollar industry for American farmers. Wouldn't that beterrible? Let's see, you'd have a renewable energy source, you'd havea crop that's good for the environment, a crop that doesn't need to begrown with pesticides or herbicides. Wouldn't that be terrible? Tore-invigorate the whole farming industry in this country? Gotta outlawhemp, but keep those drugs pumping. Keep that drug economy pumping!Keep that drug industry legal. Keep on poisoning the hearts, minds,bodies and nervous systems of all the people in this country. You'vegot to keep them on drugs. Why? Well, drugs are profitable. We're allinvested in the drug companies. Gee, if the drug companies weren'tmaking money, people wouldn't have their retirement portfolios, so yousure don't want to do anything that would harm the drug companies. Yougotta keep everything moving along. That's what the Fraud and DrugAdministration helps do: Keep it all pumping right along and keepthose drugs coursing through the veins of our people. How many drugs? So many that you can now find traces of these drugs inthe public water supplies. If you put a little drug sensor at the endof the Mississippi river where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, youcan find drugs – prescription drugs – just coming right on down theriver. Here they come! We could bottle these up and sell them back tothe same people who took them once already. These drugs are, ofcourse, killing the oceans, the coral reefs and the ocean life in theGulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico is half dead now, which is betterthan the American population, which is half brain dead. We're all onstatin and antidepressant drugs and other kinds of prescription drugsthat basically sap our cognitive ability, sap our lucidity and takeaway our ability to think clearly about issues like health. Information suppression and other tricks of the FDA's tradeNow, getting back to the report by The Independent, one team ofinvestigators found that 28 pages of data had been removed from theFDA files on a new family of painkillers because of what?Confidentiality. It's a trade secret. That's how the FDA covers upnegative information. "Gee, did the study show that 10 percent of thepeople died from heart attacks? Don't worry. We can just call it atrade secret. Then we'll take it out of the official report. No onewill know." Information about cox-2 inhibitors has been suppressed. One of theSwiss investigators, Dr. Peter Juni, who helped expose the risks ofthese drugs, claims the FDA obstructed his efforts. We all know aboutthe suppression of Dr. David Graham's testimony by the FDA, and how hehad been threatened in a variety of ways to make sure that he wouldn'tgo public with his information. Finally, he was able to testify beforeCongress, something the FDA certainly did not like. And this is a guywho works there. There is another guy, Dr. Andrew Mosholder, an expert at the FDA'sOffice of Drug Safety, who presented an analysis of 22 differentstudies on more than 4,000 children, covering nine antidepressants. Hefound that the risk of suicide-related events was twice that ofchildren given a placebo. For those who can't do the math, that's a200 percent increase, or twice the chance. That's a tremendousincrease in the risk of suicide-related events for taking these drugs. The FDA is committing crimes against humanityKeep on dosing these children. That's right, call it a brain chemistryimbalance and put those kids on drugs. It's not like children need todo things like play outdoors. It's not like they need physicalexercise and sunshine. It's not like they need healthy school lunchesor good nutrition. It's not like they need any of that. What they needis drugs. Clearly. The evidence shows it; this is medical sciencehere, and this is clinically proven stuff. This is rational medicine;this is scientifically based. Oh yeah, we have a bunch of people with a bunch of initials aftertheir names (also known as "psychiatrists"), and they say, "Give thekids more drugs." That's what's happening in the country today. Theredoesn't seem to be any end in sight. Now, all of this just confirmswhat I've been saying about the FDA all along. While some people areout there talking about, "Let's reform the FDA," my view continues tobe, "Let's arrest the FDA." Let's make some arrests. Let's get somecriminal convictions of these people, because in my view they arecommitting crimes against humanity. That's what's really going on here. Crimes against humanity. These arenot small violations of local law. This is not some guy at WorldComfixing the numbers to move a couple of billion dollars into hisprivate bank account. These are bureaucrats, decision makers, evenpoliticians, who have been given the responsibility of protecting thepublic and who have sold out that responsibility. They have sold theirsouls in exchange for whatever money or power they're receiving fromthe drug industry. They have sold out. The drugging of our children is a chemical holocaustDo you know who's paying the price? Our children -- the health and theminds of our children. And the rest of the population too, you nameit: Adults, senior citizens, expectant mothers – forty percent of ournation is now on prescription drugs. It is unprecedented in thehistory of the world. The level of corruption and the number ofcriminals now running our health care system is unprecedented in thehistory of the world. These are criminals who need to be arrested.Someone in a position of authority – someone like the Attorney General– needs to run in there and make some arrests. Set an example that says, "Hey, you know what? You cannot conduct thiskind of chemical holocaust on the children of our nation and get awaywith it. You can't do this in America." America is the land of thefree, the home of the brave and a country where we're supposed tounderstand what justice is all about and where we fought for freedom,they say. Freedom of what? Freedom to keep dosing our children onprescription drugs? No! I say we have the freedom to know the truthabout the drug companies. The only freedoms we're really fighting for are freedoms like the oneI'm exercising here, freedom of speech. This is the one freedom thatis the most powerful of all, because it is the freedom that canprotect all the other freedoms, and, ultimately, our children. It canprotect us from the criminals running our nation. Criminals like thoseat the FDA. Legalize hemp and make long-term prescription drug use illegalNow, if we had honest leaders in this country, prescription drugswould be illegal, at least for long-term use, and hemp would be legal.We could grow hemp for industrial use. Create new revenues streams forfarmers. Grow our own biodiesel and reduce our need to import foreign oil. At the same time, we need to outlaw many prescription drugs,especially for long-term use. We need to outlaw, for one thing, theuse of these drugs in children. Instead of doing the responsible thingof addressing children's nutritional habits, of taking junk foods outof schools, banning the advertising of soft drinks, junk foods andsugar cereals to children, instead of giving them some recess time,what do we do? We drug them. We say, "Oh, well, they just have somebrain chemistry imbalance," and we dose them full of drugs. That is not an answer to the problems of our nation. We need to banthese drugs; we need to outlaw them. And we need to arrest thesecriminals at the FDA and the criminals at the top of these drugcompanies who are allowing this to happen; in fact, they're pushingfor it. They're devising new ways to drug more and more people withmore and more prescription drugs as the years go by. They're actuallyfabricating new diseases and finding ways to convince people they are"afflicted" with completely fictitious disorders like "Social AnxietyDisorder" or "Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder." Drug companies can't wait for the coming wave of Alzheimer's patients.They just drool over the diabetes numbers, because more and moreAmerican citizens are gong to be diabetic in the years ahead. That hasthem patting themselves on the back, rubbing their hands in greed,"Oh, can't wait for those diabetes people. They're going to need a lotof drugs for that." The medical destruction of the USASomething has got to change around here. And it may be too late. Itreally may be, because our nation is destroying itself. It's druggingitself into oblivion, and, all the while, spending more money than ithas available. We're spending ourselves into medical bankruptcy – allthe while hiding behind this illusion of so-called science-based medicine. We are missing out on a huge opportunity to do something productive;something like teaching expectant mothers how to have healthy babiesthrough nutrition or teaching superlearning strategies all childrenthat involve new learning technologies. We are missing the opportunityto combine that with outstanding nutrition and the mass consumption ofessential fatty acids that are absolutely crucial for healthy braindevelopment development. Our medical system had a great opportunity, a golden opportunity to dosomething really helpful for humanity, and they flushed it away out ofa quest for profits. The Fraud and Drug Administration stands at thetop of this pyramid of control, pulling the strings and making surethe Drug Empire continues to tighten its iron grip. And it hashappened. More people are taking drugs. Drugs are more and moreprofitable, dangerous drugs are not removed from the market andAmericans have few alternative choices. That's what's happening today,and if you aren't outraged by it, then you are not aware of what'sgoing on. America has been conned by the FDAIf you think all these drugs are medically justified, you've beenconned. If you think doctors have been trained on how to help peoplebe healthy, then you've been fooled. These drugs haven't been provensafe, and the FDA is not looking out for the public safety. Just likeevery other American out there, you've been conned. And the wholeworld is laughing at us; that is, when we're not bombing them. So, I just have one question from all of this: for how long will theAmerican people allow this to continue? I'm really curious because Iwant to know. Will the people continue to allow their children andtheir senior citizens to be drugged? Will they continue to allow drugcompanies to extract more and more dollars from their pockets andleave them in financial ruin? Is this what people are going to allowto continue happening in this country? Because maybe the answer is they'll allow it forever. Maybe they'llnever be the wiser. Keep on eating those processed foods, those junkfoods, those restaurant foods, all those unhealthy, toxic,disease-causing ingredients. Keep on buying those personal careproducts, coating your hair in cancer-causing ingredients, coloringyour hair with cancer-causing solvents. That's right. Keep on drinkingall that alcohol, smoking all those cigarettes, watching thatprime-time television sitcom to distract yourself from the crumblingof our nation that's happening all around you this very minute. We'vegot to keep people distracted. Maybe they won't notice. Keep them drugged up. They'll just keep on working, because somebody'sgot to pay for all this, right? Somebody's got to foot the bill. Andthe person footing the bill is, of course, Joe Public. Nearly everyAmerican consumer out there is writing a check to the drug companiesright now, and saying, "Keep on drugging me, my children and myparents in the nursing home. I'm going to keep writing you checksuntil I have no more money left. I'm going to keep on writing themanyway after that, and put myself in medical bankruptcy, just to stayaddicted to these prescription and over-the-counter drugs." That'swhat Americans are saying right now. And the FDA must be standing back watching, laughing its head off,thinking, "Wow, it worked." It's what they must be thinking right now."I can't believe we pulled this off! They bought it. Can you believeit? These people are suckers, they bought it!" And by the way, there's another new disease out there that's verydangerous to your health. It's called "Conventional Medicine BeliefDisorder" (CMBD) and its primary symptom is an irrational belief in asystem of medicine that has nothing to do with promoting health. Thecure for CMBD isn't a drug, it's an ANTI-drug. What is the ANTI-drug?That will be revealed in a later article. But here's a hint: you don'tneed a prescription to get it. Thanks for tuning in to this commentary. Overview: * FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) Source: http://www.newstarget.com/0124677.html