FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information

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FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary)

 

 

Here's a report on the FDA that could only come from outside the

United States. I'm reading to you from The Independent, a British

newspaper, that says, " Vital data on prescription medication found in

millions of British homes has been suppressed by the powerful U.S.

drug regulators, even though the information could potentially save

lives. " An investigation by The Independent states that, under

pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, the American Food and Drug

Administration routinely conceals information it considers

commercially sensitive, leaving medical specialists unable to assess

the true risks.

 

This no surprise to those who are regular readers of this site, but to

a lot of consumers in the United States, it is a big surprise. They

can't believe that the Food and Drug Administration would censor and

suppress drug safety information. They think the FDA is looking out to

protect them. The heroic FDA, protecting American consumers from

greedy drug companies selling dangerous drugs, putting public safety

first and corporate profits last. Of course, that's all a myth.

 

The real FDA: Profits first, safety last

Here's the real FDA, in my view: Colluding with drug companies,

suppressing clinical trial data, covering up the truth about dangerous

prescription drugs, refusing to pull drugs off the market even though

they are literally killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. The

FDA: Censoring its own drug safety scientists to make sure they don't

go public with their information about how dangerous these drugs are.

The FDA: Under the table deals with drug companies? Maybe. Lots of

political influence with the leaders of drug companies? Probably.

Covering up facts about the dangers of prescription drugs? Most

definitely. Absolutely. Without question.

 

This is the FDA that we have here in the United States, running the

drug industry. Running it! The FDA that tries to create a monopoly

drug market in this country by banning the import of generic

prescription drugs from elsewhere around the world. This is an agency

that has attempted again and again to discredit Chinese medicine,

nutritional supplements, herbal medicine and anything that would

compete with prescription drugs. It has sought to outlaw these natural

substances and herbs that have been proven healers for literally 2,000

years in the history of medicine. This is the FDA that has put drug

profits first, and public safety last, time and time again.

 

This is the agency that rigs its own safety panels. " Oh, is there a

dangerous drug out there? Let's have a panel and a hearing. Let's rig

the hearing with decision makers who are paid by pharmaceutical

companies. They're the ones who will get to vote. " Wow, what a big

surprise. They all voted to make the drug legal again. That's what

happened 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 it

back 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 be

considered 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 a

dangerous drug. Maybe it shouldn't be on the market? " How many

children have to be doped up on antidepressants, committing suicide

and shooting each other in public schools before the FDA says, " Well,

maybe children shouldn't be on these dangerous drugs that alter brain

chemistry? " Think about this.

 

How many senior citizens have to die of gastrointestinal bleeding from

the consumption of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)

before the FDA will say, " Gee, maybe they should have a warning on

them? " How many people have to die in this country before the FDA will

stand up and do its job? When will the American people start listening?

 

You know, everywhere else around the world, the FDA is a complete

joke. Here's The Independent in the U.K., doing a report on the FDA

that you probably would never see in the United States. Why not?

Because the mass media apologizes for the drug industry, and most of

the media outlets in this country are funded by drug money. Look at

any magazine, newspaper, or cable news program, and what do you see?

Drug ads. Those ads are paying the salaries of the very people who

decide what's news and what isn't.

 

Drugs, drugs everywhere

Have you picked up a magazine lately? Have you picked up any of those

news magazines on the newsstands? Have you picked up a medical

journal? Did you notice that they're 50 percent drug ads? There's

hardly any news in the news magazines at all. The news that you find

is highly censored and edited. Much of the bad news about drugs is

suppressed.

 

Have you looked around your local community lately? Did you notice how

many pharmacies are being constructed? There's a drug store on every

corner, it seems. Even grocery stores are building pharmacies like

mad. Everyone wants to get in the drug business all of a sudden. It's

like we have a country of drug pushers, drug runners, drug retailers,

drug manufacturers and drug apologizers. And who's the Al Capone

running the drug racket? The FDA, of course.

 

And then we have this " War on drugs, " which does really important

things like outlawing hemp. Oh yes, hemp is so dangerous. My God, you

can make paper with it! It's so dangerous, this hemp. You can make a

pair 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 and

recyclable car parts. You can make biodiesel out of hemp. Oh, you can

make a lot of things out of hemp, including highly nutritious hemp

seeds, loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, outstanding for health and

human nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition). The one thing you

can't do with hemp is get high from smoking it. The THC content is so

low in industrial hemp that you'd have to smoke a hundred pounds of

hemp just to feel anything resembling a buzz. And yet we have to

outlaw hemp in this country because we're fighting " the war on drugs! "

Meanwhile, the real drug threat is prescription drugs. They're the 4th

leading cause of death in this country. And they remain perfectly

legal. Hmmm... are the politicians smoking crack?

 

America is a drug nation

The FDA: The Fraud and Drug Administration. Making sure everyone in

America has the right to keep on buying, selling and consuming drugs.

I remember we used to have a society in which Nancy Regan would teach

children to say, " Just say no to drugs. " We used to have signs in

front 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 signs

and walk into the school, you find out that as many as 30 to 40

percent of these children are on drugs. They're on powerful narcotics

that have been prescribed to them by doctors, psychiatrists and school

counselors, and pushed onto them by school administrators and parents

who are cowering in fear over what might happen if their little Johnny

doesn't stop being so hyper. We've got to put them on drugs! It's a

drug nation; a pharmaceutical factory. We have so many kids on drugs

that they've actually made it illegal not to put your kids on drugs!

 

There's a family that fought child protective services authorities

because they didn't want to put their daughter on chemotherapy drugs.

They wanted to treat their daughter naturally, with their own method

of healing. But the state said, " No, you can't do that. We're going to

force your child to be poisoned with chemotherapeutic agents that

generate profits for prescription drug companies... chemical agents

that don't have any sort of documented benefit for enhancing the

lifespan of kids or adult patients, and yet are used by every

oncologist in the country. We're going to force these drugs into the

body and bloodstream of your daughter. We're going to take your

daughter away from you. " And they did. That's how drugged up we are in

this nation. We've made drugs mandatory.

 

We're drugging each other, and when we refuse to be drugged, we invoke

the 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 would

happen if everyone grew hemp? Gee, let's see, you'd have a huge

multi-billion dollar industry for American farmers. Wouldn't that be

terrible? Let's see, you'd have a renewable energy source, you'd have

a crop that's good for the environment, a crop that doesn't need to be

grown with pesticides or herbicides. Wouldn't that be terrible? To

re-invigorate the whole farming industry in this country? Gotta outlaw

hemp, 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've

got to keep them on drugs. Why? Well, drugs are profitable. We're all

invested in the drug companies. Gee, if the drug companies weren't

making money, people wouldn't have their retirement portfolios, so you

sure don't want to do anything that would harm the drug companies. You

gotta keep everything moving along. That's what the Fraud and Drug

Administration helps do: Keep it all pumping right along and keep

those drugs coursing through the veins of our people.

 

How many drugs? So many that you can now find traces of these drugs in

the public water supplies. If you put a little drug sensor at the end

of the Mississippi river where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, you

can find drugs – prescription drugs – just coming right on down the

river. Here they come! We could bottle these up and sell them back to

the same people who took them once already. These drugs are, of

course, killing the oceans, the coral reefs and the ocean life in the

Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico is half dead now, which is better

than the American population, which is half brain dead. We're all on

statin and antidepressant drugs and other kinds of prescription drugs

that basically sap our cognitive ability, sap our lucidity and take

away our ability to think clearly about issues like health.

 

Information suppression and other tricks of the FDA's trade

Now, getting back to the report by The Independent, one team of

investigators found that 28 pages of data had been removed from the

FDA files on a new family of painkillers because of what?

Confidentiality. It's a trade secret. That's how the FDA covers up

negative information. " Gee, did the study show that 10 percent of the

people died from heart attacks? Don't worry. We can just call it a

trade secret. Then we'll take it out of the official report. No one

will know. "

 

Information about cox-2 inhibitors has been suppressed. One of the

Swiss investigators, Dr. Peter Juni, who helped expose the risks of

these drugs, claims the FDA obstructed his efforts. We all know about

the suppression of Dr. David Graham's testimony by the FDA, and how he

had been threatened in a variety of ways to make sure that he wouldn't

go public with his information. Finally, he was able to testify before

Congress, something the FDA certainly did not like. And this is a guy

who works there.

 

There is another guy, Dr. Andrew Mosholder, an expert at the FDA's

Office of Drug Safety, who presented an analysis of 22 different

studies on more than 4,000 children, covering nine antidepressants. He

found that the risk of suicide-related events was twice that of

children given a placebo. For those who can't do the math, that's a

200 percent increase, or twice the chance. That's a tremendous

increase in the risk of suicide-related events for taking these drugs.

 

The FDA is committing crimes against humanity

Keep on dosing these children. That's right, call it a brain chemistry

imbalance and put those kids on drugs. It's not like children need to

do things like play outdoors. It's not like they need physical

exercise and sunshine. It's not like they need healthy school lunches

or good nutrition. It's not like they need any of that. What they need

is drugs. Clearly. The evidence shows it; this is medical science

here, 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 after

their names (also known as " psychiatrists " ), and they say, " Give the

kids more drugs. " That's what's happening in the country today. There

doesn't seem to be any end in sight. Now, all of this just confirms

what I've been saying about the FDA all along. While some people are

out there talking about, " Let's reform the FDA, " my view continues to

be, " Let's arrest the FDA. " Let's make some arrests. Let's get some

criminal convictions of these people, because in my view they are

committing crimes against humanity.

 

That's what's really going on here. Crimes against humanity. These are

not small violations of local law. This is not some guy at WorldCom

fixing the numbers to move a couple of billion dollars into his

private bank account. These are bureaucrats, decision makers, even

politicians, who have been given the responsibility of protecting the

public and who have sold out that responsibility. They have sold their

souls in exchange for whatever money or power they're receiving from

the drug industry. They have sold out.

 

The drugging of our children is a chemical holocaust

Do you know who's paying the price? Our children -- the health and the

minds of our children. And the rest of the population too, you name

it: Adults, senior citizens, expectant mothers – forty percent of our

nation is now on prescription drugs. It is unprecedented in the

history of the world. The level of corruption and the number of

criminals now running our health care system is unprecedented in the

history 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 this

kind of chemical holocaust on the children of our nation and get away

with it. You can't do this in America. " America is the land of the

free, the home of the brave and a country where we're supposed to

understand what justice is all about and where we fought for freedom,

they say. Freedom of what? Freedom to keep dosing our children on

prescription drugs? No! I say we have the freedom to know the truth

about the drug companies.

 

The only freedoms we're really fighting for are freedoms like the one

I'm exercising here, freedom of speech. This is the one freedom that

is the most powerful of all, because it is the freedom that can

protect all the other freedoms, and, ultimately, our children. It can

protect us from the criminals running our nation. Criminals like those

at the FDA.

 

Legalize hemp and make long-term prescription drug use illegal

Now, if we had honest leaders in this country, prescription drugs

would be illegal, at least for long-term use, and hemp would be legal.

We could grow hemp for industrial use. Create new revenues streams for

farmers. 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, the

use of these drugs in children. Instead of doing the responsible thing

of addressing children's nutritional habits, of taking junk foods out

of schools, banning the advertising of soft drinks, junk foods and

sugar cereals to children, instead of giving them some recess time,

what do we do? We drug them. We say, " Oh, well, they just have some

brain chemistry imbalance, " and we dose them full of drugs.

 

That is not an answer to the problems of our nation. We need to ban

these drugs; we need to outlaw them. And we need to arrest these

criminals at the FDA and the criminals at the top of these drug

companies who are allowing this to happen; in fact, they're pushing

for it. They're devising new ways to drug more and more people with

more and more prescription drugs as the years go by. They're actually

fabricating new diseases and finding ways to convince people they are

" afflicted " with completely fictitious disorders like " Social Anxiety

Disorder " 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 more

American citizens are gong to be diabetic in the years ahead. That has

them patting themselves on the back, rubbing their hands in greed,

" Oh, can't wait for those diabetes people. They're going to need a lot

of drugs for that. "

 

The medical destruction of the USA

Something has got to change around here. And it may be too late. It

really may be, because our nation is destroying itself. It's drugging

itself into oblivion, and, all the while, spending more money than it

has available. We're spending ourselves into medical bankruptcy – all

the 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 babies

through nutrition or teaching superlearning strategies all children

that involve new learning technologies. We are missing the opportunity

to combine that with outstanding nutrition and the mass consumption of

essential fatty acids that are absolutely crucial for healthy brain

development development.

 

Our medical system had a great opportunity, a golden opportunity to do

something really helpful for humanity, and they flushed it away out of

a quest for profits. The Fraud and Drug Administration stands at the

top of this pyramid of control, pulling the strings and making sure

the Drug Empire continues to tighten its iron grip. And it has

happened. More people are taking drugs. Drugs are more and more

profitable, dangerous drugs are not removed from the market and

Americans 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's

going on.

 

America has been conned by the FDA

If you think all these drugs are medically justified, you've been

conned. If you think doctors have been trained on how to help people

be healthy, then you've been fooled. These drugs haven't been proven

safe, and the FDA is not looking out for the public safety. Just like

every other American out there, you've been conned. And the whole

world 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 the

American people allow this to continue? I'm really curious because I

want to know. Will the people continue to allow their children and

their senior citizens to be drugged? Will they continue to allow drug

companies to extract more and more dollars from their pockets and

leave them in financial ruin? Is this what people are going to allow

to continue happening in this country?

 

Because maybe the answer is they'll allow it forever. Maybe they'll

never be the wiser. Keep on eating those processed foods, those junk

foods, those restaurant foods, all those unhealthy, toxic,

disease-causing ingredients. Keep on buying those personal care

products, coating your hair in cancer-causing ingredients, coloring

your hair with cancer-causing solvents. That's right. Keep on drinking

all that alcohol, smoking all those cigarettes, watching that

prime-time television sitcom to distract yourself from the crumbling

of our nation that's happening all around you this very minute. We've

got to keep people distracted. Maybe they won't notice.

 

Keep them drugged up. They'll just keep on working, because somebody's

got to pay for all this, right? Somebody's got to foot the bill. And

the person footing the bill is, of course, Joe Public. Nearly every

American consumer out there is writing a check to the drug companies

right now, and saying, " Keep on drugging me, my children and my

parents in the nursing home. I'm going to keep writing you checks

until I have no more money left. I'm going to keep on writing them

anyway after that, and put myself in medical bankruptcy, just to stay

addicted to these prescription and over-the-counter drugs. " That's

what 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 believe

it? These people are suckers, they bought it! "

 

And by the way, there's another new disease out there that's very

dangerous to your health. It's called " Conventional Medicine Belief

Disorder " (CMBD) and its primary symptom is an irrational belief in a

system of medicine that has nothing to do with promoting health. The

cure 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't

need a prescription to get it. Thanks for tuning in to this commentary.

 

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* FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary)

 

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