[csda] Anti-FDA activism (fwd)

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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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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!

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.

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.

The FDA's nuclear bomb

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.

Scientific fraud is routine at the FDA

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. "

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.

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. "

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)

Lame proposals for reform don't cut it

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.

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.

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.

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.

Who will declare the Emperor has no clothes?

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.

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.

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!

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.

Prescription drug deaths: The silent

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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

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