"In 1957, the FDA burned all the books of dissident physician
Wilhelm Reich, M.D., smashed his laboratory equipment with axes, and
threw him in jail, where he died."---Robert Anton Wilson, High Times, March 2001.
Unless you've been living in cave on a remote mountain, you know the FDA
has been coming down harder on nutritional companies that publish
health claims for their products. Such claims trigger investigations
and harassment.
But you see, this arrangement is backwards.
The use of the term "FDA" should be the trigger for immediate
investigation, whenever it appears. For example, "The FDA has ruled
(name of drug) is safe and effective."
Boom. Probe.
Why? Obviously, the FDA is a rogue criminal organization, which is guilty of massive RICO felonies. That's why.
A news story mentioning the FDA appears in a major newspaper? The
paper, if it has an approximation of ethical concern, should print this:
"
Warning:
any action attributed to the FDA should
be considered criminal. Accepting an FDA opinion on something more
serious than 'H2O=water' endangers life and limb. This news outlet
accepts no responsibility for the health consequences of any FDA
decision."
Now we'd be on the right track.
July 26, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health,
"Is US health really the best in the world?": Medical drugs kill 106,000 Americans per year. That's a million killings per decade.
Every one of the killer drugs is certified as safe and effective by the
FDA, the Agency tasked with protecting the health of the American
people.
Example: Vioxx was approved for use by the FDA on May 20, 1999.
Eventually, it caused 88,000-140,000 cases of heart disease.
Conservative death-toll number? 60,000. (An estimated 58,000 American
troops died during the Vietnam War.)
"
Warning:
If you accept the FDA's advice on a health matter, you're risking death. In case there is any confusion, death means death."
"Did you just read a statement from the FDA? Your life is in imminent danger."
Perhaps you recall the original approval of GMO crops and their
associated highly toxic Roundup pesticide? No? Let me summarize it for
you.
When you cut through the verbiage, you arrive at two key statements. One
from Monsanto and one from the FDA, the agency responsible for
overseeing, licensing, and certifying new food varieties as safe.
Quoted in the New York Times Magazine (October 25, 1998,
"Playing God in the Garden"), Philip Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, famously stated:
"Monsanto shouldn't have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our
interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is
the FDA's job."
From the Federal Register, Volume 57, No.104,
"Statement of [FDA] Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties," here is what the FDA had to say on this matter:
"Ultimately, it is the food producer who is responsible for assuring safety."
The buck-passing, the direct and irreconcilable clash of these two
statements, is no accident. It's not a sign of incompetence or sloppy
work or a mistake or a miscommunication. It's a clear signal the fix was
in.
"
Warning:
The relationship of an FDA certification of safety to actual science is coincidental. Run for the hills."
In a stunning interview with Truthout's Martha Rosenberg, former FDA
drug reviewer, Ronald Kavanagh, exposed the FDA as a relentless criminal
mafia protecting its client, Big Pharma, with a host of mob strategies (
"Former FDA Reviewer Speaks Out About Intimidation, Retaliation and Marginalizing of Safety," 7/29/2012).
Kavanagh: "...widespread racketeering, including witness tampering and witness retaliation."
"I was threatened with prison."
"One [FDA] manager threatened my children...I was afraid that I could be
killed for talking to Congress and criminal investigators."
Kavanagh reviewed new drug applications made to the FDA by
pharmaceutical companies. He was one of the holdouts at the Agency who
insisted the drugs had to be safe and effective before being released to
the public.
But honest appraisal wasn't part of the FDA culture, and Kavanagh swam
against the tide, until he realized his life and the life of his
children was on the line.
What was his secret task at the FDA? "Drug reviewers were clearly told
not to question drug companies and that our job was to approve drugs."
In other words, rubber stamp them. Say the drugs were safe and effective
when they were not.
Veterans of the Armed Forces, take note: Kavanagh remarks that the drug
pyridostigmine, given to US troops to prevent the later effects of nerve
gas, "actually increased the lethality" of certain nerve agents.
Kavanagh recalls being given records of safety data on a drug---and then
his bosses told him which sections not to read. Obviously, they knew
the drug was dangerous and they knew exactly where, in the reports, that
fact would be revealed.
"
Warning:
the FDA hammers into submission its own
employees who are trying to protect your health. These employees
submit, resign, or risk their lives and the lives of their families.
Have a nice day."
Of course, the US Department of Justice takes no action against the FDA. Why would they?
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