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Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just as a factory-working Jewish prisoner who talked back to his Nazi captors in 1942 would be beaten and shot, the FDA made sure that the Church of Scientology would pay a dear price for daring to question the authority of this all-powerful federal agency, an agency that could summon the aid of firearms-brandishing law enforcement officials at any time, for apparently any reason, regardless of its legality. Other FDA raids 1991, San Leandro, Calif.: A nutritional supplement company, NutriCology, is raided by 12 FDA agents. All FDA injunctions were eventually thrown out of court.

In U.S., science is distorted to promote political and corporate agendas Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Apparently, protecting Earth is not high on the priorities list for an agency that has become the Science Mythology Department of the United States government. Ever since Bush appointed NASA administrator Michael Griffin to the head post in 2005, NASA's scientific reputation has nosedived into the ground faster than a poorly programmed Mars orbiter. The question on everybody's mind is, simply: What the heck happened to NASA? And why is the agency's top bureaucrat now officially denying that global warming is a problem?

Health Roundup: TB lawsuits, lycopene bashing and Veggie Booty for infants (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is on top of the "serious" scientific research undertaken by the agency proving that vitamin E will kill you, that herbs are dangerous to everyone and that human beings are actually made of tiny medication capsules that need to be replenished from time to time. It's interesting that the more money the FDA takes from drug companies, the more frequent the pronouncements that herbs, foods and nutritional supplements are dangerous for human health. Patented pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, are safe enough to prescribe to infants, the agency claims.

China executes top FDA official while the U.S. does nothing to counter corruption Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Some might say that any official who knowingly accepted $800,000 in bribes from drug companies while running the country's top drug approval agency was engaged in such an egregious crime that it clearly crossed the line and deserved a swift and aggressive response. I'm just wondering why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration didn't offer the guy a job and secretly smuggle him out of China. If he can run a corrupt regulatory agency, and he's used to taking money from drug companies, he'd fit right in with the American FDA! They could use another evil bureaucrat like that around here!

84% of sunscreen products are harmful to health, says alarming EWG study Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In response to FDA's failure to set enforceable standards for sunscreen, citizens have filed nine class-action, false-advertising lawsuits in California; the Connecticut state Attorney General has petitioned the agency to set standards; and six Senators have written FDA, urging the agency to issue sunscreen regulations to protect the public from skin cancer. The database can be found at: http://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/ ### EWG is a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC that uses the power of information to protect human health and the environment.

Food and Drug Administration anagrams and word games (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And while we're playing games with the FDA letters, the agency itself is playing games with the lives of Americans. That's why I think the whole agency should be renamed to a new, more accurate name: THE PHARMA BOOSTER CLUB! Or, perhaps: The Fued and Drugged Adminifrustration. Call it whatever you want, just don't call it anything related to actual public safety.

FDA hoodwinks public over CAM Guidelines comment period, slams door shut on public comments one month early Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The FDA appears to be subject to no law This is how the FDA operates: Deceive the public by making them think the agency is listening to reason, then suddenly change the rules and leave the public out to dry. The agency operates as if it is subject to no law, rule or regulation of its own. It lies to the public, defends the profits of pharmaceutical companies, and ultimately operates with apparent legal immunity. In fact, U.S.

Bush / Big Pharma conspiracy? White House to oppose open disclosure of clinical drug trials Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

All safety information is currently filtered through the FDA -- a highly corrupt (in fact, criminal!) agency that in my opinion has no concern whatsoever for the health and safety of the American public. Thus, the very agency currently in control of drug safety information is not even genuinely interested in drug safety! (Case in point: The FDA voted to put Vioxx back on the market even after knowing it likely killed over 60,000 Americans!) If the FDA is the "watchdog" of drug safety, then who is watching the watchdog?

Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just as a factory-working Jewish prisoner who talked back to his Nazi captors in 1942 would be beaten and shot, the FDA made sure that the Church of Scientology would pay a dear price for daring to question the authority of this all-powerful federal agency, an agency that could summon the aid of firearms-brandishing law enforcement officials at any time, for apparently any reason, regardless of its legality. Other FDA raids 1991, San Leandro, Calif.: A nutritional supplement company, NutriCology, is raided by 12 FDA agents. All FDA injunctions were eventually thrown out of court.

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs" Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is the same agency that currently represents the greatest threat to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the threat of real terrorism. This agency, we have seen, will do ANYTHING to protect the profits and power of drug companies. It will lie, steal, accept bribes, hide scientific evidence, distort statistics, commit scientific fraud, break federal laws, threaten its own drug safety scientists, conspire with drug company executives, intimidate American citizens and use terror-style tactics to achieve its goals of complete domination over foods, drugs and health.

What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

The government agency that is supposed to regulate the industry is the FDA. It has not done its job, especially in recent years. One problem is that the agency is under undue influence from the very industry it regulates. Since 1992, drug companies have paid "user fees" to the FDA. In 2002, this amounted to $576,000 per new drug application, for a total of $260 million. Sad to say, that money, now an integral part of the FDA budget, buys considerable influence. Add to that the practice of using outside experts to help the FDA reach its decisions.

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs" Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is the same agency that currently represents the greatest threat to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the threat of real terrorism. This agency, we have seen, will do ANYTHING to protect the profits and power of drug companies. It will lie, steal, accept bribes, hide scientific evidence, distort statistics, commit scientific fraud, break federal laws, threaten its own drug safety scientists, conspire with drug company executives, intimidate American citizens and use terror-style tactics to achieve its goals of complete domination over foods, drugs and health.

Mindfulness Ellen J. Langer See book keywords and concepts

And so agency after agency wastes money to keep future budgets healthy. The clever solution that my former student, Otto Brodtrick, suggested, based on his auditing experience for a Canadian government agency, took into account the point of view of those receiving the funds. If each year an agency's budget were guaranteed to be what it would have been had it spent all the money given, plus half of what it did not spend, both individual agency and government would prosper.

Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD See book keywords and concepts

Public Health agency of Canada. Heart Disease and Stroke in Canada 1997. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/hdsc97/so2°e.html 2 Public Health agency of Canada. Heart Disease and Stroke in Canada 1997. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/hdsc97/so2°e.html 3 bmj.com Letters. Why heart disease mortality is low in France. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/319/7204/255 4 Department of Health. Coronary Heart Disease. http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/Corona ryHeartDisease/fs/en 5 Condorelli L. Nicotinic acid in the therapy of the cardiovascular apparatus.

PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts

Because it is still extremely hard to come by reliable information on unregulated herbal supplements, this new edition continues to provide you with the closest available analog to FDA-approved labeling—the findings of the German Regulatory Authority's herbal watchdog agency, commonly called "Commission E." This agency has conducted an intensive assessment of the peer-reviewed literature on more than 300 common botanicals, weighing the quality of the clinical evidence and identifying the uses for which the herb can reasonably be considered effective.

With Tysabri decision, the FDA declares no drug is too dangerous to be FDA approved Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And this now completes the full reversal of the FDA. The agency now has both feet squarely in Bizarro world. In doing this, I wonder if the FDA realizes it has made itself irrelevant. If the agency is now merely going to pass through drug safety decisions to doctors and patients, then why do we need the FDA at all? The agency is no longer a gatekeeper. It is a toll booth, where drug companies pay a toll on their way to customers. And apparently, the toll fee is happily accepted regardless of whether the drug in question helps people or kills them.

With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And with this decision, whatever credibility the FDA thought it had remaining has now evaporated. The agency is suddenly the laughing stock of the world. It has taken what many consider to be the most dangerous class of prescription drugs ever introduced and rubber stamped the whole class with the label of "FDA approved." The very label of "FDA approved" is now synonymous with "Poison." It sort of makes you wonder about all the other drugs the agency has approved, doesn't it? The agency sure has a funny way of defining "safe.

What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

It is unteasonable," wrote the editors of JAMA, "to expect the same agency that was responsible for approval of drug licensing and labeling would also be committed to actively seek evidence to prove itself wrong." What is needed, the editors continued, is for Congress to establish an "independent drug safety board" to track the safety of drugs and medical devices after they are approved for use. Above all, "this agency must be completely independent of influence from the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology firms, and medical device manufacturers.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

On April 27,1935, Congress had declared soil erosion a national menace and established the Soil Conservation Service to consolidate federal actions under a single agency. A year later in his opening address to a conference convened by order of President Roosevelt, the agency's newly appointed chief Hugh Bennett compared the rapid loss of soil from U.S. farmlands to the slow pace of soil formation. Citing federal studies, Bennett showed just how fast America was disappearing.

FDA's attempts to slip its CAM Guidelines under the radar fail; deadline for public comment extended to May 29 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: Following widespread criticism by the public over proposed CAM Guidelines that the agency tried to slip under the radar (see below), the Food and Drug Administration has now extended the deadline for public comment to May 29. (It was previously April 30). The CAM Guidelines (click here to read them yourself) represent a new era of thinking at the FDA and describe the agency's intentions to regulate herbs, functional foods, therapeutic oils, nutritional supplements and even physical devices such as massage rocks as either "drugs" or "medical devices.

Consumer alert: Popular air fresheners found to contain toxic chemical Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Four consumer advocacy groups (and environmental groups) are now filing a petition with the EPA and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), calling for the agency to start testing air freshener products for this toxic chemical. The four groups include the Sierra Club, Alliance for Healthy Homes and the National Center for Healthy Housing. All this brings to mind an important question: Why hasn't some government agency taken steps to test these toxic chemicals in air freshener products before?

The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie Craig Pepin-Donat See book keywords and concepts

Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat Fran Hawthorne ISBN: 0471610917 Book Description: In a time when companies continue to accuse the FDA of nitpicking and needlessly delaying needed new drugs, and consumers are convinced that the agency bends to industry pressure by rushing unsafe drugs to market, Inside the FDA digs deep to reveal the truth. Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America Byron J.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa See book keywords and concepts

There, researchers from the agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry of the Department of Health and Human Services are looking into what may be one of the highest rates of MS in the world—related, residents believe, to chemical pesticides and toxins from manufacturing and hazardous waste sites. Investigators looking into high rates of MS in Morrison are also studying four neighboring towns: Lewiston, DePue, Savanna, and Paw Paw. DePue and Savanna are both Superfund sites.

Although a recent 2006 Food and Drug Administration report concluded that mercury dental fillings are safe, an expert panel for the FDA rejected that agency report only a week later. Panel members complained that the report excluded some important studies, making it impossible to reach a clear answer as to whether fillings are safe, especially for pregnant women and children. They concluded that far more study was required.

The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie Craig Pepin-Donat See book keywords and concepts

Estimates that Vioxx caused at least 28,000 cases of heart attack or sudden cardiac death are "extremely conservative," according to Graham, who blamed flaws within the agency for the 'Vioxx catastrophe."10 More to the point, he claimed to have studies showing deaths related to Vioxx in excess of one hundred forty thousand people. Both of the studies were subsequently published in the September 12, 2006, online edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association." Graham's credentials are impeccable.

Andro has since been banned by the World Anti-Doping agency, The International Olympic Committee/Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games and by the FDA. For kids looking to follow their role model's examples, it is important to point out that scientific research has linked Andro to acne, breast enlargement in men and heart problems.19 Those are unnecessary and dangerous prices for a kid trying to excel in sports to pay. Teens and others regularly use supplements containing caffeine and amphetamines to increase alertness and aggressiveness on the field.

In October 2002, at the request of members of Congress, the agency submitted a report called "Prescription Drugs, FDA Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Has Limitations." The report confirmed that drugs with high DTC spending were among the best-selling drugs. In 2000, 22 of the 50 drugs with the highest advertising spending were among the top 50 in sales, and sales of drugs with the highest DTC spending rose more quickly than sales of other drugs.

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