The World accoring to the FDA

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Below from a friend's blog.

 

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The World according to the FDA

 

The 26 beliefs that drive modern medicine and the FDA

 

1. All herbs are dangerous and might kill you.

 

2. Vitamins and dietary supplements are not only useless; they're so

dangerous that they should be regulated or banned.

 

3. The only thing more dangerous than dietary supplements is allowing

the public to have access to accurate information about dietary

supplements. To maintain control, the public must be kept ignorant of

the medicinal uses of all substances other than patented chemicals.

 

4. Most diseases are caused by pharmaceutical deficiencies and can

only be treated with pharmaceutical supplementation.

 

5. Botanicals interfere with pharmaceuticals, not the other way

around. There is no such thing as a pharmaceutical that interferes

with an herb.

 

6. Scientific progress is measured by the degree to which man dominates nature.

 

7. Free speech should only be protected for drug companies, not

nutritional supplement companies.

 

8. The 300+ synthetic chemicals now found in the blood of nearly

everyone are completely harmless and have no negative health effects.

 

9. The FDA is incapable of making mistakes, and therefore, drug

companies should be granted full immunity against consumer lawsuits

surrounding the injuries and deaths caused by FDA-approved

pharmaceuticals. It is impossible for an FDA-approved drug to cause

the death of anyone, because the FDA is infallible.

 

10. There is no need to safety test chemicals used in cosmetics and

personal care products because the skin doesn't absorb chemicals.

Unless, of course, we're talking about transdermal drug delivery

products like the anti-smoking patch, in which case the skin readily

absorbs chemicals.

 

11. Nature cannot be trusted. All herbs must be " standardized " to be

safe. And even then, they're still useless.

 

12. Phytochemicals only act in isolation. Scientists can understand

the physiological action of plant chemicals by isolating them,

synthesizing them, and testing them one by one. There is no such thing

as " synergistic action " with phytochemicals.

 

13. The only use for plant chemicals is to serve as ideas from which

drug companies can synthesize patented drugs. Phytochemicals

(phytonutrients) have no inherent value and their use for preventing,

treating or curing any disease should be outlawed and stripped from

modern civilization's knowledge base.

 

14. Shamans, medicine women, herbalists, midwives and healers are all

engaged in quackery based on superstition or voodoo.

 

15. There is no such thing as bioenergy, intuition, mind-body

medicine, quantum physics or therapeutic touch. The entire universe

operates only on the physical and chemical levels. There is nothing

beyond those two levels yet to be discovered or explored.

 

16. We already know everything there is to know. No new discoveries

are necessary, nor are any paradigm shifts in scientific medicine. It

is important that we all reject any new ideas or beliefs that threaten

our existing ideas or beliefs.

 

17. Drug corporations should be protected because they have the best

interests of the general public in mind. The future health of the

entire world depends on the research being conducted right now by drug

companies.

 

18. Americans are lucky to pay the highest prices in the world for

medication. Everyone else has to settle for " bargain " pricing, but

Americans get the honor of knowing their dollars help fund the

shareholder profits of the world's wealthiest corporations, all of

which deserve unlimited financial riches because they are saving the

world from disease.

 

19. Drugs from Canada are so dangerous that they cannot be allowed to

be touched or swallowed by superior Americans. Canadian drugs might be

suitable for exporting to third world nations, but not to America.

 

20. The best way to help consumers is to control them by limiting

their options and minimizing their access to information that might

confuse them.

 

21. Nutrition has no role in human health. Any talk about healing with

nutrition is quackery.

 

22. The human body is incapable of healing itself. Health can only be

enhanced through chemical or surgical intervention. Patients have no

role in determine their own health outcome.

 

23. " Science " is whatever we say it is.

 

24. Anything that disagrees with our definition of science is " unscientific. "

 

25. The " Scientific Method " is the process by which we decide what is science.

 

26. Conflicts of interest don't count if we all mean well.

 

 

What's really interesting about these beliefs is that they stand in

direct conflict to reality. In reality, for example:

 

• The human body is naturally biocompatible with foods and medicines

from nature.

 

• Pharmaceuticals interfere with normal human physiology and

inevitably cause harm.

 

• Medicinal plants operate through synergistic action that cannot be

understood by isolating and studying their chemical constituents.

 

• Nature has infinite wisdom; man remains utterly ignorant of the

wisdom available in the universe.

 

• The universe is energetic, not merely chemical or physical, and all

things are energetically connected.

 

• The mind controls the body; beliefs become reality in the tissue.

 

.... and so on. We could add substantially to this list, but you get

the idea. Isn't is fortunate that the universe doesn't operate from

the FDA's distorted viewpoint?

 

In time, by the way, our system of modern medicine will cease to

exist. No system of medicine based on beliefs that contradict reality

has any future.