If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice

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If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you

might notice

 

 

1. Your average car would cost $4.5 million, representing a 30,000%

markup over cost, which is typical for prescription drugs. Automakers

would justify this price by saying they needed the money to fund

research and development, but in reality, most of their research would

be funded by taxpayer dollars through government grants and university

research centers.

 

2. That exact same car could be purchased in Mexico or Canada for

under $5,000.

 

3. Automakers would lobby Congress to outlaw or regulate alternative

forms of transportation such as bicycles and airplanes, forcing

Americans to rely exclusively on cars. Explanation: the drug industry

works hard to discredit alternative medicine, herbs and nutritional

supplements, hoping to force consumers to rely on drugs alone.

 

4. Cars with no safety systems (no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple

zones) would be declared perfectly safe by federal regulators. Car

companies, rather than address this lack of safety features, would

focus on publicizing the dangers of riding bicycles. Explanation: the

FDA currently approves deadly drugs as " safe. " Meanwhile, drug

companies ignore the dangers of their own drugs and, instead, try to

get people to believe that herbs or vitamins are dangerous.

 

5. The manufacturers of those cars with no safety systems would grow

tired of being sued by customers who were injured in their cars, and

they would lobby Congress to pass " legal reform " that would immunize

all car companies against class action lawsuits. Explanation: drug

companies are currently trying to get Congress to pass laws that would

make it illegal for consumers to sue for damages. This would shield

them from the financial consequences of their dangerous products that

kill hundreds of thousands each year.

 

6. All auto imports would be banned, forcing consumers to buy only

U.S. manufactured cars. And if you bought a Toyota and drove it to the

U.S., you might be arrested or searched. Explanation: the FDA works

hard to maintain a U.S. monopoly on all prescription drug sales. The

agency once famously conducted a " drug raid " search of a bus load of

senior citizens returning from Canada who had purchased nothing more

than prescription medications.

 

7. Car companies would heavily publicize the release of new car models

each year, but in reality, the new models would essentially be

" me-too " cars with no real improvements over those made in the 1970's.

Explanation: most prescription drugs, even though they are touted as

" breakthrough " drugs, are little more than me-too drugs that do

nothing different than older, off-patent drugs.

 

8. Car crash dummy tests that produced fatalities and other disturbing

data would be censored by the auto industry, never to see the light of

day. Any safety scientist who produced such results would be

blackballed from ever conducting crash tests again. Explanation: drug

companies routinely bury clinical study results that show the dangers

of their drugs. They specifically design studies in a way that

exaggerates benefits and minimizes risks. Researchers who don't " play

ball " and help distort these drug trial results are blackballed and

will never find work in the industry again.

 

Car dealers would be visited by hoards of automobile sales reps

promising bribes, first-class vacations, free food and free cars as

long as those car dealers would push the right products onto

consumers. Explanation: drug companies spend billions each year on

handouts to physicians, including outright bribes, fully-paid

vacations to exotic resorts (disguised as " Continuing Medical

Education " programs), free drug samples, and a never-ending supply of

free lunches and other food items.

 

10. Driver's education programs would be cancelled nationwide. Instead

of teaching people how to avoid accidents or repair damaged cars,

automakers would encourage people to keep buying new cars.

Explanation: organized medicine doesn't teach healthy safety or

disease prevention. Instead, the entire system is designed around

waiting for people to get sick, then treating them with expensive

drugs, surgeries and other medical procedures. The system actually

encourages chronic illness by neglecting to teach prevention.

 

11. Companies would make up new reasons why you need more automobiles,

hoping to convince you to buy a dozen or more. They might say you need

one car to make you feel happy, another for basic transportation, a

third to match the color of your house, and so on. Explanation: drug

companies frequently invent new, fictitious diseases, and then try to

sell you drugs to treat those made-up afflictions. Examples include

ADHD, FSD (female sexual dysfunction), General Anxiety Disorder, and

other made-up diseases that have no purpose other than selling drugs.

Essentially, Big Pharma wants to define everyone as diseased in some

way, and then convince people they need a lifetime of prescription

drugs to " manage " those diseases. From the moment you're born, the

drug companies say, you're already diseased.

 

12. Car advertising would show happy, healthy people driving down

country highways with the wind blowing through their hair. But once

you get the car, you find out it breaks all the time, it doesn't

perform as promised, and after a couple of years, it won't even start

anymore. Explanation: prescription drugs are advertised with images of

happy, healthy, youthful, energetic people. But the reality is that

once you start taking prescription drugs, the health of your entire

body and nervous system (brain included) starts to go downhill. People

who take lots of prescription drugs are nearly always extremely

unhealthy, with obvious disease physiology and muddled cognitive function.

 

13. Cars would be hyped to buyers with fancy, full-color brochures

touting all the benefits of the vehicle. But federally-mandated

warnings about car safety problems would be printed in 6-point type on

a tiny label hidden under the driver's seat. Explanation: drug

companies are required by the FDA to print safety warnings on certain

product labels and advertisements, but these warnings are almost

always presented in an impossible-to-read format and are, therefore,

routinely ignored by doctors and patients alike.

 

14. Driving certain cars would have unexpected side effects. Driving

one car, for example, would make you extremely aggressive and

violent... perhaps even suicidal. Driving another car might make all

your muscles hurt. And a third car might make you feel an instant loss

of sexual drive. Explanation: prescription drugs always have

unintended side effects. Antidepressant drugs cause violent behavior

and suicides. Statin drugs can cause severe muscle pain

(rhabdomyolysis) and loss of cognitive function. They also block the

production of cholesterol, the precursor to sex hormones.

 

.... and finally ...

 

15. Cars would be sold to you with high-priced features like a

sunroof, air conditioning, 6-CD changer, navigation system and other

items, but upon delivery, you would find none of the features you paid

for. The car would be completely different from the one you thought

you bought. Explanation: drugs are sold to patients with hyped-up

promises of multiple health benefits. But once people start taking the

drugs, they find the benefits were exaggerated. In other words, the

drug they end up taking is nothing like the drug they thought they

purchased -- the drug advertised with all the features and benefits on TV.

 

This list was authored by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. To see more

list-oriented commentary on organized medicine and the drug industry,

check out:

 

The top ten reasons why the U.S. needs more pharmaceutical companies

 

The top ten things we'd see if the FDA were put in charge of the

criminal justice system

 

The top ten things you'd be able to do if you didn't live under a

system of health oppression masquerading as modern medicine

 

And be sure to read the ever-popular organized medicine fable, Welcome

to the Town of Allopath

 

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