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JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And those aren't even the bribes, those are just trinkets. But it shows you how completely drug companies have penetrated the offices of most doctors. The majority of doctors say these gifts don't influence their prescribing behavior, just like the majority of consumers claim television advertising has no influence on their grocery purchases, either. Studies prove otherwise. Studies prove that drug company gifts to doctors are, indeed, not only effective, but quite a bargain for the drug companies.

Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some. Big Pharma spends nearly $19 billion a year bribing and influencing physicians, by the way. That's billion with a "B." How much money is $19 billion? It's more money than NASA wastes smashing satellites into Mars and exploding space shuttles in Earth's upper atmosphere.

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. Exclude doctors who have financial ties to drug companies from serving on the hospital panels that determine which medicines should be on the preferred prescribing lists.

Exasperatingly, the industry has been so deeply corrupted by drug company money that the seemingly simple act of banning bribes is going to take a political miracle to accomplish. Just don't expect Congress to jump in and pass national laws outlawing the bribing of doctors. They're also on the take when it comes to drug money. The financial influence of Big Pharma is now so deep-rooted with lawmakers, medical schools, doctors and the mainstream media that it's going to take the emergence of a massive, deadly scandal to jolt this nation back to its senses.

Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some. Big Pharma spends nearly $19 billion a year bribing and influencing physicians, by the way. That's billion with a "B." How much money is $19 billion? It's more money than NASA wastes smashing satellites into Mars and exploding space shuttles in Earth's upper atmosphere.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies The Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion—that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some.

China executes top FDA official while the U.S. does nothing to counter corruption 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.

Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption, reveals remarkable Consumer Reports survey Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Been caught red-handed accepting bribes. Voted to put deadly drugs right back on the market even after such drugs were recalled by their manufacturer. Openly opposed the banning of junk food advertising to children during World Health Organization meetings. Suppressed information about the harm caused by dangerous drugs in order to prevent the press and the public from learning the truth about them. Attempted to silence its own drug safety scientists to prevent them from going public with the truth about dangerous drugs.

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Car dealers would be visited by hoards of automobile sales reps promising bribes, first-class vacations, free food and free cars as long as those car dealers would push the right products onto consumers. Explanation: drug companies spend billions each year on handouts to physicians, including outright bribes, fully-paid vacations to exotic resorts (disguised as "Continuing Medical Education" programs), free drug samples, and a never-ending supply of free lunches and other food items. 10. Driver's education programs would be cancelled nationwide.

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According to the New York Times, "New evidence keeps emerging that the medical profession has sold its soul in exchange for what can only be described as bribes from the manufacturers of drugs and medical devices."1 A soulless medicine's first crime is its failure to seriously embrace preventive medicine and avoid disease in the first place. None of the pharmaceutical companies are interested in preventive medicine for they make all their money from sickness and disease. Preventive medicine is as important as any other type of medicine.

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

REPPED: What's interesting about China's execution of its top FDA official (Zheng Xiaoyu) for accepting bribes from drug companies is not that China executed a corrupt official, it's that such harsh actions demonstrate, in contrast, the complete lack of action against corrupt FDA officials in the United States. In the U.S., the more corrupt the politician or bureaucrat, the more power they seem to gain, and those who demonstrate the most extreme degrees of evil, greed and contempt for fellow human beings seem to end up at the very top.

Our people would never stoop to accepting bribes. It's all hogwash, of course, and the mainstream media is part of the problem because it refuses to print the truth about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In an honest society with a truly free press, the Washington Post should be calling for a massive FDA investigation and prosecution effort.

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!

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. Until recently, there was no limit on the amount of money these FDA decision makers could accept from drug companies. In fact, there was no requirement whatsoever that these decision makers even reveal their conflicts of interest!

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Fifty-six percent of the panel members who created the DSM-IV are on the take from drug companies, pocketing cash, bribes, royalty payments or other fees from the very same companies that profit from the mass marketing of "brain chemistry diseases." (Be sure to visit my interactive Disease Mongering Engine to invent your own fictitious brain chemistry diseases right now, just like the drug companies do!) Evidence of criminal conspiracy Generation Rx reveals startling evidence detailing the criminal negligence of the FDA.

Analysis: Senate committee approves drug safety bill, but FDA still runs on Big Pharma money - UPDATE 1 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

No consulting fees, bribes, stock options or incentives. The people who make decisions about the safety of the drugs approved in this country should have no financial ties to the companies impacted by their decisions. It's common sense. Pretty simple, huh? Five reforms that would restore some honesty and integrity to the FDA. Protecting consumers from dangerous drugs is really not that difficult. The necessary reforms are easy to see.

Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Product placement within any particular category, be it cereal or detergent, is often determined by slotting fees, a legal form of supermarket bribes. People tend to buy what's at eye level, and food companies pay supermarkets handsomely (tens of thousands of dollars) to place their products at eye level and in other highly desirable locations. You'll often find less expensive, equivalent, and sometimes better products at knee level. The Different Sections of Supermarkets Most supermarkets have seven to ten major sections. These are the most common ones. Produce department.

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

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. Why do Americans tolerate terrorism in their own government? It is time we put a stop to this home-grown tyranny.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion—that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some. The majority of doctors say these gifts don't influence their prescribing behavior, just like the majority of consumers claim television advertising has no influence on their grocery purchases, either. Studies prove otherwise.

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Michael Antoniou, molecular geneticist, King's College London PART 2 The Regulation of GM Foods Inadequate to Protect Public Health Regulators are often hijacked by the biotech industry In Indonesia, Monsanto gave bribes or illegal payments to at least 140 officials, attempting to get their GM cotton approved.1 In a district in India, an official tampered with the report on Bt cotton, increasing the yield figures to favor Monsanto.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

They will seek out bribes, whether in cash or in kind, for favors and influence. Meanwhile, hardcore miscreants will move quickly to expand their operations and capitalize on the deteriorating social structure. They will be actively involved in loan-sharking, prostitution, narcotics, gambling, identity theft, robbery, and a multitude of other illegal activities. During the Great Depression, the Mafia and various criminal gangs made great strides in terms of organization and influence, though they were aided, of course, by their involvement in circumventing an unpopular prohibition of alcohol.

FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The body count has not yet reached a number sufficient to override campaign funding bribes paid to senators by drug companies. The pharmaceutical holocaust is not yet large enough to demand real reform. It is my belief that with this vote, U.S. Senators have betrayed their nation. They have sold out the health and safety of the American people to the wealthiest and most profitable corporations in the world: Drug companies. Our senators have stolen from the poor and given to the rich.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

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. It also makes good government—the intelligent policy making that underpins most solutions—virtually impossible.

Indeed, the now disgraced former minister Kiraitu Murungi has admitted that Anglo Leasing was essentially In Nairobi, Kenya, minibus drivers are often stopped by police demanding bribes. This kind of corruption has posed great challenges to the Kenyan government. a vehicle for financing campaigns for the upcoming 2007 elections (see the East African Business Week March 6, 2006, article "Anglo Leasing Storm"). Combine systemic campaign corruption with low expectations on the part of many Kenyan voters and you have a recipe for disaster.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts

You might be inclined to think that industry pays scientists under the table to "cook the data," bribes government officials or conducts illegal activities. Many people love a sensational story. But the powerful interests that maintain the status quo do not usually conduct illegal 249 business. As far as I know, they do not pay scientists to "cook the data." They do not bribe elected officials or make sordid underhanded deals. The situation is much worse.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

As part of a comprehensive campaign against corruption initiated in 1998, the government streamlined the regulatory rules of systems like licensing and permit approval that are most subject to corruption through bribes. An online tracking system now helps citizens monitor the status of government applications. It's unlikely that technology will turn nondemocracies into democracies, but it may just make the difference for young and fragile Transparency in Africa ¦mm The typical write-up on corruption in Africa is dire and despondent.

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Explanation: drug companies spend billions each year on handouts to physicians, including outright bribes, fully-paid vacations to exotic resorts (disguised as "Continuing Medical Education" programs), free drug samples, and a never-ending supply of free lunches and other food items. 10. Driver's education programs would be cancelled nationwide. Instead of teaching people how to avoid accidents or repair damaged cars, automakers would encourage people to keep buying new cars. Explanation: organized medicine doesn't teach healthy safety or disease prevention.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

The thousands of princes on the oil dole have received welfare benefits —anywhere from $19,000 to $270,000 a month —unmatched by any royal family at any time or place in history, as well as a steady income of "commissions," bribes, and other kickbacks in the construction industry and arms deals. Their positions have also permitted extremely liberal expropriations of other families' private property, a kind of blank-check eminent domain system for the benefit of the al-Saud clan members only.

More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

This timeline shows how the government works: it's all about money, payoffs, and bribes. It's all about multinational corporations doing anything to make profits at the expense of our health. We need to know the truth. Remember, science is not better than nature. Buy products that are 100 percent organic; buy products that are as close to natural as nature intended. This same type of information can also be said about Splenda. Please, if you are reading this, stop consuming any artificial sweetener, read food labels, buy 100 percent organic foods.

He has admitted that he has in fact received tens of millions of dollars from corporations and funneled that money, illegally in the form of bribes, to over sixty members of the Senate and Congress in Washington. This is unbelievable. This is like loe Valachi, the first member of the mafia to come forward and actually admit that a mafia exists, godfathers exist, crime bosses exist, organized crime exists, mafia hits exist, and payoffs from the mafia to politicians exist. It was unheard of up until the time that loe Valachi, an insider, blew the whistle.

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