Re: [csda] Anti-FDA activism (fwd)

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On 7/22/06, Angel!! <jap2bemc@...> wrote:

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> FDA's own scientists report pattern of intimidation, censorship and

> scientific fraud that undermines public safety

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> Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 by <http://www.HealthRanger.org>Mike

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> http://www.NewsTarget.com/019717.html

> the FDA and America

> In a truly astonishing survey just released by the

> <http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/fda-scientists-pressured.html>Union

> of Concerned Scientists, the Food and Drug Administration's own

> scientists describe the agency as an environment of intimidation,

> censorship and scientific fraud. A survey of 997 FDA scientists

> revealed that forty percent feared " retaliation " for voicing safety

> concerns over prescription drugs in public. Over one-third of the

> scientists didn't even feel safe expressing safety concerns inside

> the agency, behind closed doors!

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> Intimidation and

> <http://www.newstarget.com/censorship.html>censorship have been well

> documented at <http://www.newstarget.com/the_FDA.html>the FDA, and

> this survey adds further weight to the evidence that the FDA has been

> utterly co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry and now serves Big

> Pharma's commercial interests rather than anything resembling a

> commitment to honest science or

> <http://www.newstarget.com/public_safety.html>public safety. Time and

> time again, it has been the courageous actions of independent

> <http://www.newstarget.com/FDA_scientists.html>FDA scientists, taking

> a stand despite intense intimidation and censorship from the agency's

> top officials, who have warned the U.S. public about dangerous

> <http://www.newstarget.com/prescription_drugs.html>prescription drugs

> like Vioxx.

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> Literally tens of millions of Americans have been harmed by FDA

> negligence over the last decade, and well over one million have been

> killed by FDA-approved prescription drugs -- many of which were

> approved based on fraudulent scientific data the FDA conveniently

> chose to overlook. Through its abandonment of public safety and

> scientific integrity, the FDA has now become the single greatest

> threat to the health and safety of the

> <http://www.newstarget.com/American_people.html>American people,

> dwarfing any threat posed by terrorists.

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> The FDA's nuclear bomb

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> Imagine a nuclear bomb detonating over Seattle, Washington. A hundred

> thousand citizens might be instantly killed, and two million (or

> more) could be seriously injured from the fallout. As horrific as

> that image may seem, this is what happens in

> <http://www.newstarget.com/America.html>America every single year

> from prescription drugs under the watch of the FDA. Allowing the FDA

> to continue operating as it does today kills as many Americans as

> detonating a nuclear weapon over a major U.S. city each year.

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> Scientific fraud is routine at the FDA

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> Because right now, many of those scientists are being routinely

> intimidated to alter their conclusions in order to fit the political

> agenda of top FDA officials. A shocking 18.4 percent of scientists

> surveyed report that they " ...have been asked, for non-scientific

> reasons, to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or

> their conclusions in a FDA scientific document. "

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> In this environment of such

> <http://www.newstarget.com/scientific_fraud.html>scientific fraud,

> reported first-hand by FDA scientists, to imagine that our system of

> drug approvals has anything to do with " evidence-based medicine " is

> nothing short of preposterous. All the billions of dollars in

> advertising, propaganda, donations to

> <http://www.newstarget.com/politicians.html>politicians and bribery

> of doctors can't cover up the sobering truth: The drug industry today

> is a massive criminal enterprise operating in broad daylight, and the

> FDA is its chief enforcer. It has nothing to do with honesty,

> integrity or even health, but everything to do with generating

> obscene profits, exploiting patients and controlling information

> through intimidation.

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> Sixty-one percent of the respondents, the survey results show, knew

> of cases where " Department of Health and Human Services or FDA

> political appointees have inappropriately injected themselves into

> FDA determinations or actions. "

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> Is it really any surprise? The politicians are running the FDA, and

> crimes against the American people (which would be considered

> terrorism or treason if committed by anyone else) are routinely overlooked.

> Related article

> <http://www.NewsTarget.com/012467.html>FDA accused of suppressing

> drug safety information (commentary)

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> Lame proposals for reform don't cut it

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> Across the nation, to anyone who has been paying attention, we're

> beyond the point of realizing that something needs to be done about

> the FDA. But every proposal I've seen so far falls short of solving

> the problem. They're little more than a collection of wimpy wrist

> slaps that try to force the FDA to act with integrity while ignoring

> the culture of corruption and criminal-minded behavior that

> characterizes the agency's top officials.

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> These prescriptions for reforming the FDA mirror conventional

> medicine's flawed philosophy, by the way, by focusing on treating

> symptoms while ignoring the root causes of disease. At the FDA, the

> continued pattern of scientific fraud, intimidation and censorship is

> only a symptom of a deeper, fundamental problem: The fact that top

> FDA officials are, in fact, corrupt, criminal-minded bureaucrats who

> are responsible for the deaths of countless Americans. You can't cure

> this <http://www.newstarget.com/cancer.html>cancer by treating its

> symptoms; you have to get rid of the cause of the cancer.

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> We don't merely need reform, we need prosecutions. We need to hold

> these FDA officials accountable for their crimes against the

> children, adults and senior citizens of this country who have been

> needlessly harmed (and killed) by prescription drugs that the FDA

> absolutely knew were dangerous.

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> We are not talking about crimes of money here. This isn't some Martha

> insider stock trading scandal, or even an Enron-class

> hoodwinking of

> <http://www.newstarget.com/shareholders.html>shareholders. The damage

> done by the FDA is way beyond the realm of finances. Our family

> members are dead due to FDA negligence. Our brothers and sisters,

> daughters and sons, and even many of our parents have been outright

> killed by a homicidal system of medicine that maximizes

> <http://www.newstarget.com/Big_Pharma.html>Big Pharma profits at the

> expense of human life... a system whose key architect is the

> unapologetically corrupt

> <http://www.newstarget.com/Food_and_Drug_Administration.html>Food and

> Drug Administration.

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> Who will declare the Emperor has no clothes?

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> Almost no politician, it seems, has the courage to stand up and speak

> the truth about the FDA. Drug company money for reelection campaigns

> is simply too valuable. Sen. Grassley, however, is an

> exception to the rule. He continues to speak out against the FDA and

> push for serious reform. Likewise, Rep. Ron , a lifelong champion

> of <http://www.newstarget.com/freedom.html>freedom in all its forms,

> continues to support the <http://www.stopfdacensorship.org/>Health

> Freedom Protection Act, a bill that would help end FDA tyranny and

> restore <http://www.newstarget.com/health_freedom.html>health freedom

> to the people. Related article

> <http://www.NewsTarget.com/005032.html>FDA censorship, suppression of

> its own scientists is routine, survey reveals

> As Americans, we must declare an end to FDA

> <http://www.newstarget.com/tyranny.html>tyranny and demand our own

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials>Nuremberg-style trials

> for disgraced FDA officials. I'm sure Dr. Graham and other key

> FDA scientists would be more than willing to testify at such a trial,

> if the nation could ever find the courage to subject the FDA to the

> scrutiny of real justice.

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> Personally, I don't understand why Americans continue to tolerate

> tyranny in medicine. They witness the events of September 11 and

> rally for war on somebody -- anybody -- but when our own drug

> companies kill a hundred times as many Americans right here at home,

> all they do is sign up in droves for the latest Medicare discount

> drug sham. It's almost as if the more drugs are prescribed, the more

> the American people are losing consciousness, and they are left as

> mind-numbed zombies who can only follow orders, but can never

> question the reality spoon-fed to them by a Big Pharma-controlled news media.

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> Because we know the " official " information sources these days are

> mostly spouting utter nonsense. In this FDA survey, for example, only

> 47 percent of the scientists think the " FDA routinely provides

> complete and accurate information to the public. " Think about that

> for a minute. It means that 53 percent believe the FDA provides

> inaccurate information to the public!

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> And yet mainstream news sources continue to parrot FDA warnings,

> press releases and press conferences as if the agency possessed

> something resembling authority. In reality, it has no authority

> whatsoever, only tyranny. It rules through intimidation and

> censorship, not good science and public education. As a result, it

> has no genuine authority, and no one who is aware of the facts of the

> situation assigns any kind of credibility to the agency. The FDA is

> simply one more rogue extension of a federal government that has

> become a considerable threat to the very people it was supposed to

> protect and serve.

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> Prescription drug deaths: The silent

> <http://www.newstarget.com/holocaust.html>holocaust

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> So why isn't the public up in arms? Why aren't we rallying for war

> against the FDA? Because the deaths are silent. There's no footage

> for the evening news: No explosions, no missile attacks, and no

> crumbling high-rise buildings... just millions of Americans dying in

> their hospital beds after succumbing to prescription drugs the FDA

> assured them were perfectly safe. It's a silent chemical holocaust.

> And there's nothing to film for the evening news... nothing the

> viewers will want to see or admit to, anyway. Related article

> <http://www.NewsTarget.com/019497.html>The lawlessness of the FDA,

> Big Pharma immunity, and crimes against humanity (opinion)

> But you can visualize it in this way. Imagine if the FDA owned a B2

> stealth bomber armed with nuclear weapons manufactured by

> pharmaceutical companies. Imagine that each year, it flew the stealth

> bomber over a major U.S. city and dropped a nuclear bomb directly

> onto the civilian population. Consider the number of deaths and

> injuries that would follow. That's what's happening right now in

> terms of the number of people killed each year by FDA negligence.

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> With FDA-approved toxic chemicals now the dominant form of so-called

> medicine in the United States, we are nuking our own population with

> chemicals that will ultimately harm them or kill them. To call this

> " scientific medicine " stretches the very definition of absurdity.

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> I have to wonder: Would the people demand reform if the FDA actually

> conducted nuclear bombing raids on U.S. cities? Would lawmakers

> finally stand up and say the FDA should stop bombing our cities? Or

> would the FDA brush off the critics and simply slap a black-box

> warning label on the side of the B2 stealth bomber that said,

> " Warning: This bomb may kill you, " and then continue the bombing runs?

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> As long as powerful corporations keep making money, it appears that

> nothing can stop this chemical warfare being waged against the

> American people. No number of deaths is too high, it seems, for a

> conspiracy of medicine that trades lives for dollars with each

> passing minute. Shame on the FDA, Big Pharma and every single person

> who continues to draw a paycheck (or a cash bribe) from these

> organizations of evil. To continue working for these organizations is

> to actively contribute to a system that exploits living persons, that

> has no regard for the value of a human life, and that drains the

> health and cash of our fellow human beings in order to maximize

> profits for corporate shareholders.

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> So I have a question. Why do we still tolerate the actions of this

> Food and Drug Administration when it is so blatantly engaged in

> <http://www.newstarget.com/crimes_against_humanity.html>crimes

> against humanity? Why isn't the FBI conducting armed raids on the

> agency right now and marching these criminals away in handcuffs?

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> And when do the FDA trials start? Because when they begin, I want a

> front row seat.

> Related article

> <http://www.NewsTarget.com/003203.html>American Medical Association

> calls for wholesale reforms of the FDA

> Link back to this article: http://www.NewsTarget.com/019717.html

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