Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The country has become an absurdity, where lawmakers actually bicker about how much bribery and corruption should be allowed in the FDA drug approval decision process rather than simply agreeing to ban all bribery and conflicts of interest, which is what sane lawmakers would do.
Stand back and watch the bonfire
Over the last few months, I have come to the conclusion that it is no longer worth attempting to stop American's self-destruction at the hands of Big Pharma, corrupt politicians and greedy fractional reserve bankers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  All the bribery in the industry is going to be stopped by the drug dealers themselves!
The doctor bribery problem has reached such a high level of ridiculousness that even JAMA, which usually plays the role of blowing the pro-drug propaganda horn, has noticed there is a problem. In fact, it has suggested a course of action that, if adopted, might actually reign in drug company bribes and restore a bit of honesty to the world of medicine. But that's only if it is widely adopted, and that's about as likely as asking a heroin addict to agree to stop shooting up. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It's like setting a "bribery ceiling.")
91 percent said they had seen a drug advertisement on television or in print (a "victory" accomplished by the FDA legalizing such ads in 1998), and 26 percent said they asked their doctor for a brand-name medication after learning about it from an advertisement. This is the purpose of advertising, of course: To increase sales of drugs, not -- as is claimed by Big Pharma and the FDA -- to "educate" patients about medical treatments.
75 percent agreed that the allowing of drug advertising has resulted in the over-prescribing of pharmaceuticals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Big Pharma operates a system of routine bribery of doctors and FDA decision panel "experts" who vote on the approval of new drugs. Conflicts of interest run so deep in the FDA that the very idea of even disclosing such conflicts has been strenuously argued against by FDA bureaucrats.
5) State medical licensing boards run secret investigations to frame and "catch" doctors prescribing vitamins or alternative therapies. Those doctors are then targeted for prosecution or revocation of their medical licenses. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In the past, influence-peddling was more accurately described as payola or bribery. Politicians have exempted themselves from such corruption, though, by passing a multitude of rules and laws that obfuscate where the monies come from...and where they end up. Soft money, PAC (political action committee) money, campaign contributions...private donations, corporate donations...where do these begin, and where do "courtesies" such as fine dinners, exotic trips, or pricey honorariums end? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that make crop seeds unviable, destroyed the livelihood of farmers and used every tactic they could think of -- legal threats, intimidation, bribery, monopolistic market practices and many more -- to gain monopolistic control over the global food supply.
One documentary brings you this astonishing story. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  Bribery. bribery is used when a purchasing agent, key officer of a corporation or government official takes a bribe to pay a higher price for a product or service instead of picking products or services on the basis of the lowest bid and highest quality. This also contributes to inflation and shoddy products. As everyone knows, one of the biggest markets for bribery is among government officials.
Misleading verbal sales pitches. This is by far where the most deception takes place and the biggest frauds are carried out. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  As the truth continues to come out about the predatory practices by Big Pharma, the public is increasingly disgusted with what they're learning about fraudulent science, deadly drugs, the bribery of doctors, price-fixing schemes and so on.
More consumers are abandoning pharmaceuticals than ever before and turning to natural treatments for diseases and health conditions. The number of ex-medicine users continues to rapidly expand.
The truth about Big Pharma's market monopoly is finally starting to gain traction among mainstream consumers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  China did precisely that in executing its top FDA official for accepting more than $800,000 in bribes from drug companies to approve unsafe drugs. Yet bribery is routine in the United States drug approval process. In fact, the official FDA policy right now is that FDA decision panel experts -- the people who decide which drugs to approve or reject -- can currently accept up to $50,000 in bribes from drug companies and still serve on such decision panels.
This policy, by the way, is brand new. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Drug safety should not be carried on behind closed doors, in dark corridors, and through under-the-table bribery deals. The safety of pharmaceuticals should be openly disclosed and debated. The White House, it now seems, does not want the public to learn the truth about drug trial results.
The real reason the White House opposes this legislation, in my opinion, is that the White House is far too cozy with drug companies. Big Pharma maintains strong ties with the Bush Administration and helped elect virtually every Republican currently in office. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Beyond all the bribery, price fixing, corruption, dishonest advertising, monopoly prices and deadly drug side effects, underneath the whole thing it's all based on scientific fraud. We're not just talking about one drug and one study here, you see. This is the way Big Pharma routinely conducts business. It's all about getting the results they want to see, regardless of what it takes, who has to be bribed, which researchers have to be intimidated, and so on. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  They have also added to their repertoire extensive bribery,16 hijacking of regulatory agencies, and threats to reporters and scientists.
Kirk Azevedo experienced firsthand how the company responded to a potentially serious safety hazard in its GM cotton. In 1997, a few months after he was set straight by the Monsanto Vice President at headquarters, a company scientist told him that Roundup Ready cotton plants contained new, unintended proteins that had likely resulted from the gene insertion process. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | The doctor bribery problem has reached such a high level of ridiculousness that even JAMA, which usually plays the role of blowing the pro-drug propaganda horn, has noticed there is a problem. In fact, it has suggested a course of action that, if adopted, might actually reign in drug company bribes and restore a bit of honesty to the world of medicine. But that's only if it is widely adopted, and that's about as likely as asking a heroin addict to agree to stop shooting up.
Specifically, the anti-bribery proposal would:
Prohibit doctors from accepting free drug samples. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Free to charge monopoly prices thanks to the FDA-enforced domestic drug racket that outlaws international competition, and unburdened by the financial risk of lawsuits from consumers harmed by their drugs, Big Pharma would be emboldened to unleash a dystopian era of unprecedented disease mongering, bribery of doctors, false advertising and the mass drugging of children, adults and seniors alike... with absolutely nothing to hold them in check.
This result may, in fact, have been the intention all along. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Conventional medicine, characterized by toxic pharmaceuticals, radical surgical procedures, rampant bribery, corruption and relentless disease mongering and "sick care" profiteering, is increasingly being enforced by gunpoint in the United States. Parents who wish to protect their children from the dangers of chemotherapy, surgery or dangerous prescription drugs may find themselves accused of kidnapping their own children simply by rescuing them from the hands of surgeons and oncologists who stand to profit from every procedure performed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  They should have access to this information without bias, without bribery, without corruption or any of the things that so many other publications do to earn revenues at the expense of their own integrity. I refuse to do that, and that's why this story, and every other story, is brought to you out of nothing but a desire to share useful information.
Whether or not you purchase Amy's Kitchen products makes no financial difference to me. I have never received free samples from this company. They aren't even aware that this article is being written. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | The rampant disease mongering, the mass drugging of schoolchildren with amphetamines, the false claims of drug ads, the bribery of doctors, the collusion at the FDA... it's all coming to the surface now, and by the time this house of cards comes tumbling down, the resulting criminal trials against drug company executives and FDA officials will make the Enron trials sound like a high school debate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You see, drug companies can control the media through advertiser influence; they can control the FDA through corruption and collusion; and they can control doctors and consumers through bribery and distorted advertising. But they can't control the outcome of a jury of everyday people who finally woke up and saw the obvious: pharmaceuticals are killing us.
Pharmaceuticals are dangerous to your health
As I have written on this site, pharmaceuticals are in fact 16,400% more dangerous than terrorists. Even legal, FDA-approved pharmaceuticals kill 100,000 Americans each year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The entire distribution system is well in place: the false and misleading television advertising, the outright bribery of drug dealers (doctors), the street corner fulfillment centers (pharmacies), and the coordinating drug lord running the show (the Fraud and Drug Administration). It's a brilliant system for manufacturing, promoting, delivering and selling deadly, addictive drugs to children, adults and seniors while generating corporate profits and tax revenues for cities, states and nations.
And that's the raw truth about the War on Drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It's yet another example of the widespread lack of ethics in the pharmaceutical industry, where seemingly any strategy that makes money is supported: scientific fraud, Medicaid fraud, censorship, bribery, intimidation... and that's just what we've seen in the national headlines in the last month!
You see, the drug racket isn't just about dangerous drugs like Vioxx being peddled to tens of millions of Americans, it's also about financial fraud designed to extract even more money from taxpayers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You'll never see that claim because the blueberry companies aren't going to engage in the corruption, bribery, and political influence that would normally be required for the FDA to approve something. Blueberries are just blueberries. They are straight from nature. They are healthy. And they actually lower bad cholesterol and improve cardiovascular health regardless of whether or not the FDA allows such a claim.
Getting back to health insurance, you have to remember that the health insurance business is just that – a business. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Those of us in the Global North face electoral systems that essentially allow open bribery, in one form or another. Those of us in the Global South often face systems that skip over the elections altogether and go straight to the bribes. And corruption tends to reinforce itself across borders, as dirty deals know no boundaries. From oil to diamonds, the commodities that make life rich in the North support corruption and oppression in the South. The corrupt are their own global network.
Corruption breeds in dark corners. | | He cracked down on corrupt police officers—even shutting down the entire transit police division, which was known for its bribery schemes. He even asked people to pay an extra 10 percent in optional taxes—to everybody's amazement, 63,000 residents did.
Two of Mockus's programs, though, exemplify the creativity he brought to the job. Bogota can have terrible traffic jams, and even on the best days, its streets can be mayhem. Mockus hired hundreds of mimes to direct traffic—providing not only some needed order, but a hint of levity. More impressively, he launched the Night for Women. |
Michele Simon
See book keywords and concepts |  Since they are only in it for the money, short of bribery or outright coercion, how can they possibly be expected to do the right thing? As Joel Bakan eloquently elaborates in The Corporation, self-regulation: rests on the suspect premise that corporations will respect social and environmental interests without being compelled by government to do so. No one would seriously suggest that individuals should regulate themselves, that laws against murder, assault, and theft are unnecessary because people are socially responsible. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  SELL the drugs to as many people as possible through bribery of doctors, more direct-to-consumer advertising, etc.
4. CONTROL the monopoly market by pressuring the FDA to either ban the importation of similar drugs from other countries, or censor and outlaw natural foods and supplements that work better.
And this is where the conspiracy enters the picture. A conspiracy is a group of people who plot ways to exploit others for their own gain, usually through unethical or illegal means. | | Routine bribery of physicians through consulting fees, Continuing Medical Education vacations to exotic destinations, and kickback programs that reward doctors for writing brand-name prescriptions to patients under the guise of signing them up for clinical trials.
Blatant and frequent conflicts of interest at the FDA, an agency that stacks its drug safety decision panels with doctors who have strong financial ties to the very companies impacted by their decisions (and yet refuses to require full disclosure of those ties). | | You will witness the corruption, fraud, and bribery that take place every day in this industry where drug companies routinely buy off doctors, as long as those doctors continue to push prescription drugs onto patients who generally don't need them—and will most likely be harmed by them.
You'll see the fraudulent science behind the approval of most prescription drugs, where researchers who are funded by drug companies use carefully manipulated clinical studies to lie about drug safety. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Didn't you know the ratings of companies are bought with outright bribery? You mean you didn't know that? Well welcome to the world of expensive education. Now you know. Next time, subscribe to the Martin Weiss Safe Money Report and you won't get screwed.)
Too many Americans, you see, think the stock market is a giant ATM. They underestimate risk (if they understand it at all) and overestimate the potential for gain, all while following the sheeple to the slaughter. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  All the billions of dollars in advertising, propaganda, donations to 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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