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Americans are Apparently Quite Stupid

2006-12-07T00:26:00Z

A new survey found that twenty-five percent of Americans think they have eaten genetically modified food. The other seventy-five percent are in la-la land. Eighty-nine percent of soy and sixty-one percent of corn grown in the U.S. are genetically modified. These products have found their way into seventy-five percent of the packaged food on grocery shelves, meaning everyone has eaten some genetically modified food.

Of the twenty-five percent of Americans that are slightly cognizant of what they are putting in their mouths, it is unlikely they realize genetically modified food contains an unnatural toxin in every cell of the food! No person in their right mind would intentionally eat genetically modified food, which is why the FDA refuses to label it. For those interested in learning the science of the issue in plain English, I suggest reading my book, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America, Chapter 15 – Experimenting with Our Food Supply.

The ignorance of Americans enables biotech companies like Monsanto to get away with permanently altering our food supply in the name of their sleazy profits. It is no wonder the elite are tucking “real food” seeds away on an island off the coast of Norway.

FDA Allows Off-Label Narcotic Sales

2006-11-21T12:27:00Z

The narcotic lollipop known as Actin, made by Cephalon, is approved to treat cancer pain. Its sales are booming, likely to hit 600 million dollars this year. Fewer than 20% of the drug sales are for cancer pain. Most are for off-label use such as headache, remedies widely promoted by the company’s sales force and in company-sponsored physician training vacations. The sales crew also promotes starting patients on eight times the recommended starting dose.

Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is actively investigating the issue. Apparently, so is the U.S. Attorney General’s office in Philadelphia and the FDA. Why is the Wall Street Journal able to detail the breadth and depth of this illegal sale of powerful narcotics while the FDA moves at the pace of a snail? How many Americans have to become addicted to a drug and their lives ruined before the FDA acts? How many Americans have to be poisoned by doctors before we all realize the medical profession has become little more than a group of glorified drug company sales reps? Doctors are now willing to poison our children with dangerous antipsychotics or addict almost any patient to narcotics in the name of pain management. While many good doctors exist, some form of chemotherapy is needed to clear the profession of its MDiety syndrome.

Tamiflu Causes Psychiatric Problems

2006-11-14T13:45:00Z

On December 21, 2005 the FDA approved the use of Tamiflu in children under 12 for the treatment of flu. Now the FDA is warning that Tamiflu carries risks for serious neuropsychiatric events, including suicide. One fourteen year old boy walked off a balcony and plunged to his death while taking Tamiflu. Another adult left a suicide note behind. It seems anything Donald Rumsfield is associated with carries a risk for neuropsychiatric events; be it Tamiflu, aspartame, or the Iraq war.

Big Pharma Tries to Buy Elections

2006-10-28T15:29:00Z

Big Pharma had already poured 8 million into vote buying, and the month of October hadn’t even started. At stake is the Bush-granted gravy train called Medicare, bilking older Americans by not permitting the government to negotiate drug prices with Big Pharma - one major item in a long list of Big Pharma thefts from American workers and retirees.

The biggest recipient is Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum, taking in almost $500,000 of Big Pharma-tainted money. His opponent, state treasurer Bob Casey Jr., regularly attacks the Medicare program as “a giveaway to Big Pharma.”

Next in line at the Big Pharma printing press is Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), receiving $300,000. Is it any wonder Hatch is selling out the supplement industry with Big Pharma- sponsored Adverse Event Legislation intended to destroy the supplement industry.

Americans should realize that they are paying inflated drug prices, allowing Big Pharma to buy votes that perpetuates the thievery. A stench smelt round the world.

Prozac Causes Aggression in Youth

2006-10-18T18:06:00Z

One more study confirms what drug companies have known and hidden for years, that the class of antidepressants known as SSRIs can have severe adverse effects in the developing nervous system. When will the FDA stop the poisonous experiment on our children? Answer: When they no longer accept funding from drug companies and when drug companies can no longer lobby Congress. Since such changes are nowhere in sight, I suggest that parents ban all use of psychotropic medication in their children. There are only a very small percentage of children with serious problems that may benefit from the use of these drugs, and even those children need very close monitoring due to the high risk of adverse side effects. Brain meds are not candy; wake up parents.

Drug Wholesalers Scam American Workers

2006-10-06T13:16:00Z

It is difficult for the American working class to realize the multiple different ways that Big Pharma and related businesses are stealing the profits of American labor and placing it in their pockets. In the Wild West at least you could tell when a bank robbery was taking place. Numbed and befuddled consumers pay for the billions of dollars in drug ads they watch on nightly news, lavish perks for doctors, “free” samples of drugs, outlandish mark-up on drug production costs, and massive lobbying on Capital Hill. My advice, make all of these activities illegal and stop the great bank robbery of the twenty-first century.

An excellent expose article by Barbara Martinez, published in the Wall Street Journal on October 6, 2006, explains another angle on the bank robbery. Large drug wholesalers like Wallgreens and San Francisco-based McKessan Corporation have been in cahoots with a price-fixing scandal orchestrated by a division of Hearst Corporation called First DataBank. First DataBank publishes wholesale price lists for drugs. In 2002 they began raising prices for no reason, enabling the middle-man organizations and large pharmacy groups to reap an estimated 7 billion heist from American workers and taxpayers. Needless to say, small family pharmacies were run out of business and saw none of these profits. Instead, profits in the large scam artist associations doubled and tripled.

Biased Drug Study Reporting

2006-09-26T11:53:00Z

Americans are beginning to catch on to the Big Pharma game. Pay for a study to be done on your company’s hottest drug prospect. If nothing good is happening try to alter the study to fit a subset of the data that might be favorable. If that doesn’t work, throw the study in the trash before word gets out that the drug is dangerous. A new review of stroke studies found that 75% of those entering the recycle bin were unfavorable, whereas 96% of those published were favorable. This follows an early report that drug studies funded by Big Pharma produce far higher favorable findings compared to the same drugs studied by an independent research group. The bottom line is clear, Big Pharma sponsored drug studies are marketing pieces, not science. Big Pharma is actively hiding adverse drug data from society.

Institute of Medicine Blasts the FDA on Safety

2006-09-24T12:21:00Z

The FDA helped sponsor the Institute of Medicine report, and the results were not pretty. The FDA’s dirty laundry has been spread out to view, problems that pervade the agency and seriously compromise the safety of Americans. The facts I have laid out in Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America are now being reported by an a branch of the National Academy of Sciences that advise the federal government.

A Serious Attack on Nutritional Supplements

2006-09-15T18:07:00Z

Immediate consumer action needed!!! Vitamin-hating Senator Richard Durbin, along with former supplement supporters Senators Hatch and Harkin, are seeking to impose draconian Adverse Event Reporting requirements on supplement companies. This legislation is intended to destroy the supplement industry.

Hatch and Harkin receive money from Big Pharma and supplement industry spin groups now working with Big Pharma to instigate a sell out of health options and health freedom for Americans. Big Pharma is seeking to buy and control the supplement industry.

Immediate action is needed by the consumer public to stop this insane bill from passing, which could happen any day. The National Health Federation has written a press release summarizing the major problems with this legislation. I have also written extensively on this subject. Follow the links at the top of the left column of our homepage to voice your concerns. We must flood Congress with opposition if we are to stop this bill.

FDA Advisory Panels are a Joke

2006-09-15T12:18:00Z

The FDA advisory panels, a collection of mostly hand-picked industry friendly “experts,” have been used by the FDA to secure sales for Big Pharma in the face of serious adverse drug effects. The FDA is often criticized for the clear financial connections to drug companies, pretending that such relationships have no impact on the objectivity of such panel members.

Finally, the FDA is taking action. They are removing an FDA panelist – because the drug company doesn’t like him! Of course, this was done in a behind-the-back and backstabbing manner.

FDA Whistleblower Blasts New Merck Painkiller

2006-09-14T16:29:00Z

Dr. David Graham, whistleblower working within the confines of the FDA’s struggling drug safety offices, continues his public attack on the lack of safety condoned by the FDA. Graham believes that Merck’s new arthritis drug, Arcoxia, like Vioxx, poses undue cardiovascular risk. Writing on the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website he states, “The FDA, academia, and the medical research enterprise are once again faced with the opportunity to forsake common sense by willfully accepting misdirection and disinformation presented in the guise of science.” Big Pharma operates like a profit-mongering form of cancer, not only buying every phase of the drug development and regulation process, but paying off Capital Hill as well.

Congress is For Sale, Not for the People

2006-09-13T15:23:00Z

An editorial in the USA Today outlines the depths that money buys whatever is desired on Capital Hill. Big Pharma is the largest purchaser of Capital Hill services. Thus, it is no exaggeration to say that we are now a country run on the principles of Big Pharma. The bottom line: maintain a toxic food supply and environment so that people are constantly sick and in need of Big Pharma drugs. Ensure all drugs are paid for by a public welfare system that has no ability to negotiate price. Endless profits at the expense of human health. Washington needs to be turned on its head. Politicians in both parties have their hands full of blood-soaked money.

Big Pharma Rewards Government Scientists to Foster Support

2006-09-10T14:20:00Z

Big Pharma has no problem paying top researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH) for favorable sales pitch efforts. The Los Angeles Times reports on the tip of an iceberg, highlighting several cases of influence peddling at the highest levels of “science.” How can the public possibly trust any drug study that favorably portrays the benefits of a drug? The NIH refuses to act to discipline this perversion of science at the expense of human health, showing that there is no credibility in our federal government or in Big Pharma. No doubt, “science for hire” is a favorite income source for many that work in government positions of power. Consumer beware.

Genetically Modified Food on the Loose

2006-09-07T07:24:00Z

New reports that illegal strains of genetically modified rice are showing up in the food supply in the United States and Europe are creating quite an uproar, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The patent for the illegal rice strain in question, Liberty Link, is owned by Bayer – the large German pharmaceutical company with the seriously checkered safety record (read Fight for Your Health). The quality of our food supply has been jeopardized by the FDA’s approval of genetically modified food. This recent problem is a sign regulators have no control over the Jeannie they have let out of the bottle.

Thanks for the Super Bugs

2006-09-01T21:15:00Z

MRSA, the deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, is now an epidemic in communities around the world. This is the dark side of antibiotics, altering evolution in a way that puts the risk of the population in jeopardy. The constant overuse of antibiotics by the medical profession, along with the Petri dish known as hospitals, are responsible for this problem. They have let the evil Genie out of the bottle, escaping into the environment to wreak havoc for one and all. Of course, natural germ killers like colloidal silver and oregano oil will remain on the FDA hit list, as bumbling idiots watch people die.