The World accoring to the FDA

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I just discovered this essay is from

http://www.naturalnews.com/z021952.html

 

Alobar

 

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Alobar <Alobar wrote:

> Below from a friend's blog.

>

> Alobar

>

> 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.

>