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 More than half of those surveyed said they are currently taking prescription drugs, indicating that more than half of american adults are now on drugs. Forty percent said they have experienced a negative reaction (side effect) from taking prescription medications. (See related cartoon on side effects.)
Most side effects go unreported, and there is currently no enforced legal requirement that doctors or drug companies report known side effects to the FDA. According to the Journal of the american Medical Association, prescription drugs currently kill approximately 100,000 Americans each year. |
| Because right now, that number is, conservatively, about 100,000 american citizens. More realistic estimates put it at double that number, or 200,000. I've often stated that pharmaceuticals kill more Americans each year than diet in the entire Vietnam War, and the number of Americans killed by acts of terrorism are dwarfed by the number killed by prescription drugs that the FDA and drug companies unquestionably knew were killing people. It's not that these deaths were truly accidental... |
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 Senators, many of our lawmakers have become adversaries of the people and are now openly fighting for the expansion of profits and power for mega-corporations while steamrolling the interests and freedoms of the american people. In a very real sense, they have openly betrayed the american people they claim to represent. They have devolved into corporate imperialists who aim to shore up their own power by sacrificing the interests of those they have sworn to protect -- the voters who gullibly put them into power in the first place. |
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| The survey results, released today, are based on a telephone survey of 1,026 american adults conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. They reveal the Food and Drug Administration to be alarmingly out of touch with the concerns of the american people. Some of the most interesting results include:
96 percent agreed the government should have the power to require warning labels on drugs with known safety problems. As Consumer Reports explains, "Right now, the Food and Drug Administration must negotiate safety warning labels with a drug maker. |
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| Same scam, different crop. The american people are once again being worked to death by greedy businessmen who only wish to increase the size of their own profits, regardless of how many people have to be exploited or destroyed along the way. And 49 U.S. Senators seem to whole-heartedly approve of this financial enslavement of the american people. They voted, on the record, to propel a profiteering price scheme operated by a criminal conspiracy masterminded by the FDA and Big Pharma. |
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| Meanwhile, very few Americans agree with the FDA or the wishes of organizations like the american Medical Association and drug companies themselves -- most of which like things just fine the way they are.
Drug companies, of course, would love to maintain the status quo and continue conducting business as usual. But thanks to grassroots consumer advocacy campaigns such as StopDrugAds (www.StopDrugAds.org), and sites like this one, the real story about the dangers of pharmaceuticals are no longer being censored and kept from the public. |
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 REPPED: Despite its stated mission, "To promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health," the american Medical Association (AMA) has taken many missteps in protecting the health of the american people. One of the most striking examples is the AMA's long-term relationship with the tobacco industry.
Both the AMA and individual doctors sided with big tobacco for decades after the deleterious effects of smoking were proven. |
| Big Medicine is the modern version of Big Tobacco, and over the last several decades, the american Medical Association has proudly supported both cigarettes and pharmaceuticals. In my opinion, the AMA is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans -- not just from pushing cigarettes but also for continuing to push dangerous pharmaceuticals while discrediting nearly everything in natural medicine or alternative medicine. |
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 But it will require more action on your part to help protect american consumers from financial exploitation by the white-collar criminals running medicine today. We must do the job the U.S. Senate refuses to do. We must take action to protect ourselves from the monopolists, pharma con men and corrupt regulators who are trying to keep Americans trapped in a system of medicine that will ultimately destroy our collective health and bankrupt our nation. |
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 It's only one of the many tricks used to disinform the american public about the dangers of pharmaceuticals or the benefits of nutrition.
This research published in JAMA does remind us of one important point, however: synthetic chemicals are harmful to human health. If you take cheap "vitamins" made of these synthetic chemicals, you are doing yourself more harm than good. These cheap vitamin manufacturers, by the way, are usually owned by pharmaceutical firms. I would personally never take vitamins purchased at common retailers such as Wal-Mart or Walgreens. |
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 In SiCKO, what Moore does very effectively is tells this story to a mass audience, weaving together the emotionally-charged stories of american citizens who lost husbands, daughters and other family members to preventable disease, all thanks to intentional, well-planned payment denials by health insurance companies. |
| Personally, I opted out of the american health care system long ago. I'm a holistic nutritionist, and I exercise, eat right, get lots of sunshine and gorge on superfoods and raw berries. I have no need for a doctor, or a pharmaceutical, or a health insurance policy. I don't get annual physical exams, and I have zero risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes or other common health conditions. (I posted my health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org if you want to see my blood workup.)
At the same time, I realize that not everybody is in such a fortunate health position. |
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| JAMA accepts millions of dollars in advertising from drug companies each year, and its pages are absolutely packed with drug ads. The american Medical Association, for its part, has long worked to discredit alternative medicine and has even been found guilty by U.S. federal courts of engaging in a conspiracy to destroy chiropractic medicine. The AMA, which is largely considered a joke by anyone familiar with natural health, is hardly a credible source for publishing scientific findings on nutrition. |
| Only fools believe research about nutrition that comes from the american Medical Association or its journal. Conventional medical researchers declaring that vitamins are worthless is about as credible as Bush Administration climatologists claiming there's no such thing as global warming.
With the publication of this research, the distortion of health reality is now complete. According to the Americal Medical Association, vitamins will kill you but pharmaceuticals will make you healthy.
Someone help me stop laughing before I blow out a lung and require surgery. |
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| They reveal the Food and Drug Administration to be alarmingly out of touch with the concerns of the american people. Some of the most interesting results include:
96 percent agreed the government should have the power to require warning labels on drugs with known safety problems. As Consumer Reports explains, "Right now, the Food and Drug Administration must negotiate safety warning labels with a drug maker."
84 percent agree that drug companies have "too much influence over the government officials who regulate them. |
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| It reveals the deep-rooted corruption in America's health care system and explains why the whole system was actually designed to deny health care to the american people.
I've been ranting about America's health care failures for years, and as I've consistently stated to the amazement of some, the health care corporations actually have a plan to keep people sick. There's no money in preventing disease, especially in the cancer industry. |
| That's astounding, given that I've solidly established the Food and Drug Administration is far more dangerous to the health and safety of the american people than all the terrorists in the world. To learn more, read my article The lawlessness of the FDA, Big Pharma immunity, and crimes against humanity.
How will SiCKO play?
I think SiCKO's timing is perfect, and I think the movie will be a significant factor in the upcoming 2008 elections. |
| The Big Business sick care industry has a stranglehold on the american political system, and the whole ugly thing will mostly likely have to collapse and be rebooted before we'll see significant change.
And make no mistake: that's what's coming. I predict America will not survive its health care crisis. It won't be the first empire to crumble from arrogance and corruption. |
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| In a recent interview with The New York Times, Brandt acknowledged that his research is a combination of scholarship and health advocacy -- pointing out the means by which the american public was intentionally misled for most of the twentieth century. As Brandt stated, "The stakes are high, and there is much work to be done. |
| The same year -- three decades after medical research demonstrated the dangers of cigarettes -- the american Medical Association finally issued statement on smoking, calling it "a serious health hazard." It was not until 1998 that the CTR was shut down -- and only after the tobacco industry lost a major court case brought forward by states across the country.
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 We also have the investors, who, like most american investors, were too mesmerized by the promise of free money to actually examine Enron's cash flow statements before handing over their hard-earned cash. Wall Street has a way of giving investors exactly what they deserve, and when get-rich-quick Americans follow the advice of so-called financial analysts who give BUY ratings on companies they don't even understand, what they deserve is bankruptcy. Not so coincidentally, that's what they got.
(Don't send me angry emails if you're one of these Enron investment victims. |
| Yes, those at the top of Enron certainly deserve what they have coming, but the whole grand system of american greed is really the culprit here. This fraud could have been stopped by honesty or sanity at any point in the scam: the investment bankers, the stock analysts, the accounting firm, the investors or the employees. But everybody was bamboozled by greed, and they all went along to avoid rocking the very boat they thought was making them rich (but which was actually sinking like the Titanic). Essentially, everyone was on the take.
This isn't the story Americans want to hear. |
| But what makes the Enron fraud uniquely american is that it demonstrates the grandeur of the illusions under which american workers, CEOs and politicians have all agreed to operate (for the last decade or so, anyway). Those illusions are largely fiscal in nature, such as the idea that budget deficits no longer matter. America can spend all the money in the world (well, all the money in China, anyway) and it won't matter, President Bush seems to say. |
| What else makes this uniquely american is that Americans have come to believe a great many absurd falsehoods thought to be insane just a generation ago. They believe that their labor is inherently more valuable than the labor of anyone else in the world. They believe that whatever they're invested in (their homes, their stocks, their dollars) will go up forever and that they can bank on the expected gains. (Enron booked future profits for today's ideas like actual earnings on the balance sheet. |
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 In fact, I believe the FDA's actions to this date are criminal in nature, and that the Justice Department should initiate an investigation to hold key FDA decision makers criminally responsible for the untold death and suffering they have unleashed upon the american public.
The american Medical Association hasn't gone that far, but they do state that the trust in the FDA has been all but destroyed and that it is impossible for the FDA to investigate itself. The FDA, for its part, denies that it has done anything wrong, and this indeed is part of the problem. |
| Make no mistake: there are certainly people within the FDA who are credible, well-informed drug safety scientists who could do a fantastic job of protecting the health of the american public. Unfortunately, those people don't call the shots at the agency. Right now, the FDA is run by power-hungry bureaucrats who silence the drug safety scientists that should be running the show!
So what are the alternatives to today's FDA? As the american Medical Association editorial suggests, it is time for us to start a new department. A department to oversee the FDA. |
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| In a very real sense, they have openly betrayed the american people they claim to represent. They have devolved into corporate imperialists who aim to shore up their own power by sacrificing the interests of those they have sworn to protect -- the voters who gullibly put them into power in the first place. |
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