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Big Tobacco racketeering charges mirror pharmaceutical industry crimes Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's time for the Justice Department to charge the pharmaceutical industry with racketeering. Because the activities of drug companies, combined with the criminal actions of the FDA, are nothing short of a criminal racket designed to deceive the American public in order to generate profits. It's classic RICO behavior. In fact, it would be difficult to find a more relevant example of racketeering than what's happening today in the pharmaceutical industry.

But what's most intriguing about this effort to prosecute Big Tobacco for racketeering is that the racketeering charges almost perfectly describe the behavior of Big Pharma (drug companies) today.

It is a crime against humanity, and just like the crimes committed by Big Tobacco, the Big Pharma racketeering crimes will not be tolerated forever.

In fact, it would be difficult to find a more relevant example of racketeering than what's happening today in the pharmaceutical industry. Physicians promoted tobacco and drugs If prescription drugs are so dangerous, you might ask, then why are so many physicians still strongly in support of them? The answer is that not too long ago, physicians were strongly in favor of cigarettes, too! In fact, a quick search through historical print ads in mainstream magazines like TIME showed physicians actually endorsing cigarettes. Smoking was good for your health, doctors insisted.

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For their concerted, coordinated efforts to sow doubt about the dangers of smoking, she found several major tobacco firms guilty of racketeering "with zeal, with deception, and with a single-minded focus on their financial success, without regards for the human tragedy and social costs that success exacted." Kessler's lengthy, thoughtful decision shows that the manipulation of science on the dangers of tobacco was not limited to one nation or a few academic centers.

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Cohen • The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (2003) by Katharine Greider • racketeering in Medicine (1992) by James P.

FTC sues Kevin Trudeau over weight loss claims while ignoring Big Pharma monopoly pricing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Technically, Big Pharma executives should be brought up under RICO Act criminal charges for racketeering, but that assumes there is actually a system of justice that works in this country, and there isn't. So instead of going after the real criminals who are literally killing over 100,000 Americans each year with dangerous prescription drugs (while bankrupting families, corporations, cities and states with monopolistic pricing schemes), the FTC has chosen to target author Kevin Trudeau over his claims in a weight loss book. Wow.

FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousands Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The whole system is a criminal operation and violates numerous federal laws on price fixing, anti-trade and racketeering. (In fact, RICO laws should be applied to Big Pharma right now, as the whole system is run much like organized crime.) This latest decision by the FDA to keep Avandia on the market, knowing full well that it will kill tens of thousands of Americans each year, is yet another example of the FDA's ongoing crimes against the American people (and its all-too-cozy relationship with drug companies).

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Justice Department for fabricating test results indicating that Aspartame was safe (and later for racketeering charges) but legal mat- Epidemiological: The branch of science concerned with public health and the causes of disease. ters were held up and delayed by unscrupulous attorneys (whom later took extremely lucrative positions within the Aspartame industry) until the statute of limitations expired. An initial investigation titled "The Bressler Report" details numerous discrepancies between reported study data and the actual, verifiable data describing the toxicity of Aspartame.

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President Bush, not surprisingly, threatened to veto the bill if it allowed consumers, cities and states to purchase prescription drugs on the free market. (The Bush Administration has consistently acted to protect Big Pharma profits, even at the expense of bankrupting Americans.) And many Big-Pharma-controlled Senators are against this amendment, claiming "safety concerns" over imported drugs. The truth, however, is that prescription drugs are dangerous no matter what country they come from! At the same time, we wish to break Big Pharma's monopoly over the U.S.

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That's the FDA for you -- blatant censorship and a good dose of plain old racketeering to boot. Only in today's outlandish system of monopoly medicine could someone look at a cherry and call it a drug. Take back your health power by educating yourself But it's not just the FDA that wants to censor information. Many old-school MDs also hate it when patients come into their clinic quoting something they learned on the internet. Many doctors simply don't want patients to have information. They want to be the sole conduit of information.

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Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives, wrote that this senate bill was ultimately defeated by intense congressional lobbying paid for by big business groups that had interests in the multi-million dollar industries of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.6 Tragically, the bill that could have directed unprecedented funding toward research into other than "established" cancer treatments was defeated by only four votes. It was just a few months after Dr. Gerson's senate testimony that Morris Fishbein began to attack and ridicule Gerson and his cancer treatment approach.

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Then Read: • racketeering in Medicine—The Suppression of Alternatives by James P. Cater, M.D., Ph.D. • The Drug Lords: America's Pharmaceutical Cartel by Tonda R. Bian • The Big Fix by Katharine Greider (How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers) • The Assault on Medical Freedom by P. Joseph Lisa (Why American Health Care Costs So Much!) • Disease-Mongers—How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick by Lynn Payer • Under the Influence of Modern Medicine by Terry A. Rondberg, D.C.

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In his book, racketeering in Medicine, Dr. Carter explains that Dr. Gerson was subjected at this point to: . . . systematic harassment on the part of the New York State Medical Society and the New York State Licensing Board. Dr. Gerson's publications were blacklisted, and none of the reputable journals would accept them. His hospital privileges at Gotham Hospital in New York City were revoked after his impressive demonstration of success before the Pepper Sub-committee in 1946. He ultimately lost his license to practice medicine in the State of New York.

Carter, M.D. racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives. Hampton Roads, 1993. (ISBN 1-878901-32-X) Ross Pelton and Lee Overholser. Alternatives in Cancer Therapy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. (ISBN 0-671-79623-2) Laetrile With the Gerson therapy being considered the first widely used nutritional approach to cancer, the use of Laetrile should probably be considered the second. Most of us have heard about Laetrile, but unfortunately, the only thing we heard was that it was some kind of "bogus" or "fad" cancer treatment a few decades ago.

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Several FDA officials and drug company executives were convicted on corruption, racketeering, and similar charges for a bribery scheme that went on from 1989-1992. Generic drug companies paid off FDA officials to approve their drugs and block approval of competitors' drugs. The generic drug companies also withheld data and even substituted other companies' brand name drugs for evaluation, instead of risking an evaluation of their own product.

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Spring, 1997: Richard Borison, head of the Medical College of Georgia, and one of his professors, Bruce Diamond, were indicted on 172 counts of forgery, racketeering, bribery, and endangering patients via their fraudulent clinical testing of various psychiatric medications over a ten year period. Both were given prison terms. My question has been and always will be, "How many more situations like this are there nationwide and if these two were jailed, why are the drugs they found safe and effective through their 'testing' still on the market?

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MEDICINE AND SCIENCE Cartel, James P racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives. Coulter, Harris L. Divided Legacy—Volume I (A History of the Schism in Medical Thought). Coulter, Harris L. Divided Legacy—Volume II (The Origins of Western Medicine). Coulter, Harris L. Divided Legacy—Volume III (The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the AMA). Coulter, Harris L. Divided Legacy—Volume IV (Twentieth-Century Medicine: The Bacteriological Era). Fisher, Jeffrey, M.D. The Plague Makers. Heimlich, Jane. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You. Hovinan, Ralph. Medical Dark Ages.

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Fishbein characterized the prospect of corporate medicine as "racketeering."28 In truth, the AMA had a horror of corporations relegating doctors to the status of employees, diminishing them to just another labor input on a corporate balance sheet. The AMA was singularly adept at positioning itself as a protector of the public health by invoking the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship while neatly inserting itself as gatekeeper to the medical marketplace.

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Fishbein (who was later convicted of racketeering charges) was spurned by Rife when he attempted to buy into his company. In response, Fishbein decided that if he could not control the therapy, he would suppress it. A special laboratory built to study Rife's discovery was mysteriously burned to the ground. Rife was dragged through the California court system on trumped-up charges. So powerful were Fishbein's connections to major medical groups of the day that many doctors who were successfully using the Rife Beam Ray had to cease their use of it for fear of being blacklisted.

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Doctors Borison and Diamond pleaded guilty to the theft, bribery, and racketeering charges brought against them by the Georgia Attorney General. They were each fined $125,000 and were sentenced to prison. At the time of their highly publicized indictment, Eli Lilly pulled all studies still in progress with Borison and Diamond, reassigning them to other centers. Regarding the many studies the pair had completed over the years for Lilly, however, a spokesperson said the company was confident that none of the data provided was compromised in any way.57 But Dr.

The chairman of the department of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, psychopharmacologist Richard Borison, and another professor in his department, Bruce Diamond, were indicted by the Georgia Attorney General on 172 counts of bribery, racketeering, forgeries, and endangering patients in connection with clinical testing of psychiatric medications for some twenty pharmaceutical companies over a decade.

The Cancer Industry Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Grace Monaco, a lawyer who had helped Aetna develop its RICO racketeering suit against Dr. Burzynski. (Emprise, Inc. went out of business soon after NCI, under public pressure, decided not to extend its grants.) NCI likewise rejected OTA's proposal for a balanced panel to fund evaluations of alternative therapies. NCI said that "the preferred solution is to encourage the proponents of 'unconventional treatments' to interact directly with {NCI's] staff." For those who had tried that route in the past, this was a bitter joke indeed.

The Medical Racket Martin L. Cross See book keywords and concepts

State Crackdown on Medicaid Fraud The states are trying to fight widespread medical racketeering through their Medicaid Fraud Control Units, a federally funded state program operating in forty-seven states. In the nineteen years since it was founded, there have been over seven thousand convictions of medical fraud operators, which, unfortunately, represents only a small segment of the rip-off artists. Started because of the nursing home fraud, it has now branched out to cover the whole Medicaid industry.

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