The Real Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry

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"oliveleslee" <oliveleslee Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:43 pm The Real Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry

One of Ralph Nader's goals when he ran for president, was to stop

corporate welfare. He figured if Congress was so thoughtful to cut

welfare to mothers and children (less than 3% of the federal budget),

then perhaps it was time to eliminate corporate welfare (greater than

17% of the federal budget).

Nader was quick to focus in on corporate welfare to the

pharmaceutical industry, because the American people pay for drugs

twice: first in funding the research to prove a drug is safe and

effective, and then again when their doctor prescribes the drug, you

pay at the pharmacy.

Now there is a lot of talk about conspiracy theories and doctors

suppressing therapies and the FDA suppressing therapies, but whether

or not there is a conspiracy is a moot point. There doesn't have to

be a conspiracy. We have capitalism, a system in which every person

has the right to grow up and make money. Every major corporation has

the right to make as much money as possible, and for some reason,

major corporations get more welfare than little corporations. Thus it

must be assumed that large corporations are much more important than

small corporations.

The pharmaceutical industry is an example of the worst parts of

capitalism, capitalism at its least respectable low and capitalism at

its most ludicrous high.

The following article is reprinted with permission from Dr Matthias

Rath's book, Why Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks . . . But People Do!

The 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.

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. Therefore,

pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve symptoms, but

not to cure.

If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed,

the industry has a basic 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.

The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry 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.

For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has now

formed an international cartel by the code name "Codex Alimentarius"

with the aim to outlaw any health information in connection with

vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies on a worldwide

scale.

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.

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 deceive the public.

Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice:

A major portion of their income is used to finance the exploding

profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a

medicine that does not even cure.

Keep in mind that the above was written by a medical doctor. Before

there were pharmaceutical companies, medicines were made by

scientists and doctors to cure illness. Take Dr Paul Erlich, the

father chemotherapy. Today we think of chemotherapy being used for

cancer, however, chemotherapy is simply medicine from chemicals.

Chemotherapy treats disease with drugs. Dr Erlich wasn't a medical

doctor as we define the term today; he was a research scientist who

also treated patients. He is the discoverer of the "magic bullet"

also known as 606 (because there were 605 failures before it) that

cured syphilis. Dr Erlich set out to cure a disease. He did not set

out to treat symptoms. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Medicine

because of his work with the immune system.

Today doctors practice medicine and scientists, when they

independently come up with a cure or a therapy that seems to work,

get harassed. Take Dr Lawrence Burton who demonstrated to scientists

and science writers his amazing therapy that wiped out tumors in rats

in two hours. He was forced to leave the United States and set up a

clinic in the Bahamas. Or take the inventor of 714X, Gaston Naessens

was asked to leave France because he was practicing medicine without

a license (and curing cancer without a license). He lives in Canada

today and still gets harassed by the authorities for helping to cure

cancer.

And then there's the story of Royal Rife.

Pharmaceutical companies insure their profits by supporting medical

schools and physicians. The pharmaceutical industry is the single

largest supporter of medical schools. Thus, the schools teach the

medicine that the pharmaceutical industry wants them to teach.

Doctors get kickbacks for prescribing certain drugs.

And then there's the FDA. Former FDA Commissioner Dr Herbert Ley

stated: "The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is

protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public

thinks it's doing are as different as night and day."

For more information on Codex, and this is important to all of us

since they've already started to limit the use and sale of vitamins

in Germany, here are some links.

This first one is to a site by the Codex people. If you read

everything here, they sound like a bunch of really nice people out to

protect you: http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9114e/w9114e00.htm

This next site has a great description of what/who they are and what

they do and what they are setting out to do: http://www.all-

natural.com/codex-1.html

Here you can read about your health freedom, and some strides taken

in protecting our health freedom: http://www.lef.org/shop/fda2.htm

And finally, here is a site that talks of Dr Rath, who wrote the

above piece, and what he is doing in Europe to fight this

organization: http://www.heall.com/medicalfreedom/codexabuse.html