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Lynn McTaggert publishes the interesting UK-based “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” newsletter and materials. We have never met but I read her material and hope that she reads ours.
Recently I read a heartfelt plea by Ms. McTaggert crying out for someone, anyone, to understand that health freedom and the restrictions of nutrients and natural health options (to which, of course, I would add both food and the right to refuse or use any treatment you wish), when under attack, IS their problem.
In 2002, when Ms. McTaggert saw what was going to happen to natural health options in the EU, she convened a meeting to which few came and fewer paid close and productive attention.
Her experience was so like mine that I felt compelled to answer her experience in the UK with ours here in the US. Please read her article after you read my response and you will see why YOU are the lynch pin. It is you, after all, who can mobilize your contacts and help them to get active and involved.
It is you who will take the Action items that keep the globalists off balance and backing up. And it is you who shoulder the responsibility to whatever degree you can, to keep the health freedom battle alive and kicking. Click here, now, to make your recurring donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation. It is, you see, your problem.
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My response to Lynn McTaggert’s WDDK article “Not My Problem”,
I am the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org.
I have practiced natural, that means drug free, psychiatry and medicine since I was graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970.
It was clear to me for a couple of decades that these assaults on our health freedom, and the right to access clean food, natural health strategies and pharmaceutical alternatives was under an increasing crescendo of attack.
It was clear to me by 2004 that our side was doing nothing much productive to counter effectively what the Uber Cartel, led by Big Pharma, were up to: globalized health and freedom suppression and genocide through illness based on dangerous drugs, pollution and devitalized foods that do not sustain health, let alone life.
Realizing that there was no road back once these changes were institutionalized, my husband, Maj. General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) closed our practice of drug free medicine, sold our house and created the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Why didn’t we just join forces with other health freedom organizations? Well, we tried. The first thing we did was call a well known health freedom advocate and offer our help and support. financial and otherwise. His response? “I do not like you because I do not know you, I do not trust psychiatrists and there is nothing you can do for health freedom. Just send money and leave me alone.” That is a direct quote.
We were so appalled that an apparent leader of this “movement” would be so short sighted and self absorbed, with no better prospects on the horizon, that we were catapulted into our decision to take this battle on since no one particularly effective or strategy-minded was on the scene.
Next, we met with other people in the “movement” and suggested in early January, 2005, a meeting of all the groups involved in this battle, much as Lynn did. That meeting took 6 weeks to organize. Most of the invitees did not come. Those who did were most occupied with slashing at each other behind backs and to faces. The outcome was predictable: nothing of any use whatsoever.
We were told that people were cowed by the vicious attacks of the first person I mentioned and so, in true co-dependent fashion, allowed the least stable person in the system make the most important decisions through bullying.
Another so called “leader” called us up and told us that we were not “permitted” to run a health freedom rally because “Health Freedom BELONGS [emphasis added] to the XXXX Foundation, as does all money involved in health freedom.” Again, not a very productive approach to winning a war, one might say.
And so it went. Petty jealousy, foolish self-interest and a movement so out of control that it could only be explained by ego or agents provocateur, or, as we believe the case to be, both.
Another example: in the US, where the Natural Solutions Foundation is based, we had a unique phenomenon develop during the most recent Presidential elections: through www.Change.org we were able to create the 10 top issues in the US according to people’s electronic votes. Those issues would, we learned, be presented to the newly elected President of the United States as the major concerns of the people of the US.
We seized the opportunity and created a health freedom item. We then wrote to every health freedom organization asking them to join with us to bring our issue to the forefront of awareness. The name of our organization did not appear anywhere in the item. We asked all of these organizations to urge their members to use their collective power and move the Health Freedom item up to number 1.
What did they do? Several of them actually banded together to urge their members to use the voting format to vote DOWN the health freedom item because they were not the initiating organization.
We made it, if I recall, to Number 8, if I recall, which was enough to be included in the top 10, but hardly where the issue should have been.
And, of course, every time the Natural Solutions Foundation accomplishes something like, for example, forcing the disastrous phony Food Safety Bill off the voting agenda, or stops the mandatory Swine Flu vaccine program the federal government was planning in the US, we get attacked as – of all things – “controlled opposition”.
Then there are the manufacturers and business people. Exactly as Lynn described it, when their ox is being gored, they have a hard time seeing it. When their ox is not being gored, they could not be less interested, many of them. Of course, there are the far sighted exceptions, but I share with Lynn the awareness of how important action is and how little the organizations and, in many cases, the companies involved are willing to see beyond their own noses.
So, in essence, it is up to us, the people.
The Health Freedom Organizations are either infiltrated, underfunded or ineffective. The Wellness companies are either blind or so burdened trying to stay in business that they cannot see the forest for the trees even though the forest is advancing like the forest in Macbeth!
What to do? Exert the strength of a powerful netroots and take this struggle on as your own. Because it is. What we are struggling about is not pills and powders. It is health and freedom, the right to control our own bodies, make our own choices.
It is the right to seek, or refuse, any treatment or health strategy which we desire.
It is the right to access clean, unadulterated food and high potency nutrients because we want to, under whatever terms we want to use them.
It is the right to share and study truthful information about the benefits of food and food components in a climate of free inquiry, not criminalization or regulatory gag rules, as is currently happening under Codex and in the US.
Just weeks ago, the European Parliament agreed to stop requiring the labeling of GMO “foods” and ingredients. This is a horrific blow to your freedom in Europe, which has already been accomplished in the US where such labeling is FORBIDDEN. This, of course, follows the secret meeting of the 27 heads of state of Europe last October 22 in London to find ways to compel the people of the EU to accept GMO foods despite their vigorous objections to it.
Gag rules to prevent health information (called “claims”) from being shared are the order of the day of the corrupt and industry-owned FDA (which we in the Natural Solutions Foundation refer to as the Fraud and Death Administration) and are one of the tools of Codex to make sure that your only options are drugs and, eventually, death, after serious profit from that death march.
Truly, either we do what needs to be done, or what they want done to us will prevail.
I urge you, wherever you live, and whatever you eat, to become part of the thrust for freedom. Health and Freedom are essential components of one another. Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom. Please join the free, secure Health Freedom Action eAlerts here, www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org, or here, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and join us in securing our Health Freedom once and for all.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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Comment available at:
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/not-my-problem.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7081
And here is Lynn’s poignant article:
Not My Problem
August 6th, 2010
In 2002 my magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You first learned about plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws that would create a very low ceiling of ‘safe upper limits’ in vitamins.
Although the laws were ostensibly to create a level playing field within the European supplement market, the proposals bore the heavy hand of Big Pharma.
At the time, the solution appeared simple. The majority of people in the UK use some form of natural medicine. All we needed to do was to band together, whip up a national protest, and the laws would be stopped in their tracks.
In early 2003, we invited all the heads of the largest vitamin companies and representatives from all the leading natural medicine organizations – homeopathy, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and many others – to a meeting in central London.
Many of the organizations never showed up. Of the 50 or so who did, many groups felt that our concerns were alarmist. Others welcomed the new moves as good for business. A few attempting to fight the legislation were busiest fighting each other.
No group seemed able to see the bigger picture. Each organization was mainly concerned with whether their own business was under fire. If it wasn’t – and at the time it wasn’t for many of the disciplines – they weren’t interested. Not my problem.
Big Pharma had big plans all those years ago. Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine.
Most therapeutic herbal medicine, plus forms that are new to the West, such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, will effectively be banned. And although homeopathy has emerged unscathed from future EU law, the British Medical Association is working to eliminate funding for NHS homeopathic hospitals.
This pogrom will not end in Europe. The near identical international laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine.
The plan is to watch Europe closely to assess the level of consumer protest. Thus far, that protest has been minimal. The two consumer groups that have maintained any sort of consistent attack – the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and Consumers for Health Choice who have challenged the law and lobbied parliament are starved of funds.
The individual organizations to this day remain isolationist. Not my problem.
This attitude reminds me a bit of the speech given by Pasto[r] Martin Niemoller about the passivity of many German groups to the purging by the Nazis of group after group.
First they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for me for me
and then there was no one left to speak out for me.
For all of us wishing to maintain alternatives to drug-based orthodox medicine, these laws are all of our problem, and every last one of us has an obligation to speak up now…..
The Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
URGENT Push Back Needed to Defend Health Freedom: S.510 Remains an Immediate Threat! The Criminalization of Food Distribution Bill, S.3767 is a New and Imminent Threat!
Update: 11.17.10 – Senate may pass S.510 today! Push Back needed!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=7446
– FOOD FREEDOM TALKING POINTS: NO! to Food Fascism – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6910
– GMO DANGERS TALKING POINTS: NO! GMOs – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6955
The Food Freedom Amendment: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6999
Click Here to Take Action! Stop S.510! Stop S.3767! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
09.23.10 Update: Senate: Don’t Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor! Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878
“No provision of Federal Law giving regulatory oversight to any Federal department or agency shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements, as protected under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”
Health & Food Freedom Amendments Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3729
09.18.10 Update: Thank You Senator Coburn for Keeping a “Hold” on S.510!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6719
09.10.10 – FDA/HHS “Stampede Congress” into Passing S.510 Letter!
The Empire Strikes Back… http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6611
09.13.10 – Text and Threat of S.3767: Criminalizing the Food Trade
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/09/s510-companion-bill-s3767-to.html
Dr. Laibow: Stop S.510 Now!
One urgent item discussed is the faked “Food Safety” bill.
S. 510 is a lesson in the politics of persistence and perfidy.
For more than a year, the plan to capture – and kill – clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming has been wending its way through Congress. Last year, the devastating HR 2749 passed although we put up a good battle, delaying it for quite a while. However, at the end of the day, a good battle followed by a loss is still a loss. Then the field of battle shifted to the US Senate, where we’ve held the forces of Big Agra and Big Govt at bay for nearly a year… Part 1 below includes an estimate of that situation, and much more! Part 2, below, continues the discussion of strategies to defend health freedom in the USA and worldwide.
URGENT Action Item: Stop S.510! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
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2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Kt7u-KzWc
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HEALTH & FOOD FREEDOM FUNDING!
If there were EVER any moment when YOU, personally or your company, needed to SUPPORT Health Freedom, THAT TIME IS NOW. As summer gets ready to end, several important cases are OPENING NEW LEGAL TERRITORY FOR YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM… IF we can raise the funds to make that happen. We need to raise at least ten thousand dollars for litigation costs needed during the next 90 days.
CODEX meetings cost a lot to attend too. Switzerland is painfully expensive for Americans and that’s where the last Codex Commission meeting was held. Big Pharma, Monsanto and the US Govt have not problem finding the money to pay the costs of attending. WE DO. The bills from our attendance at the last Codex meeting have come in and we need your help. Our shortfall for the Codex attendance is another ten thousand dollars needed immediately.
LEGAL CASES ARE IN PROGRESS TO SAFEGUARD YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES. Our lawyers work mostly pro bono but their office and litigation expenses are still significant. URGENTLY, we need to continue the CoMeD “mercury in vaccines is toxic” case (actually, this case is about how the FDA fails to abide by its own rules and the Law requiring that vaccine additives not be “toxic to the recipient”) – the Judge dismissed the case for the usual reason, lack of “standing” and we MUST raise funds for this most important appeal.
But that’s not all. There is also the West Virginia “religious exemption” appeal to ESTABLISH THE RIGHT OF EACH OF US TO A RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION TO VACCINATION, the Ear Candling case to STOP THE FDA from declaring anything that we want to use for our natural healthcare as either an untested drug or device which is therefore illegal (SO FAR, THEY’VE GONE AFTER NANO-SILVER, CHERRIES, WALNUTS, EAR CANDLES, OZONE, ETC., ETC., ETC.!) and the Stop the Shot case (which is about PREVENTING THE FDA FROM APPROVING AND USING UN-SAFE AND UN-TESTED INFLUENZA VACCINES).
That case needs to be refilled FOR THE THIRD TIME (we won the other two rounds on narrow grounds but the FDA’s illegal vaccine policy eluded our grasp) now that FDA has just approved the seasonal flu vax with H1N1 swine flu added! UNLESS WE ‘STOP THE SHOT’ millions of live virus mist vax doses will spread the disease and if squaline or similar substances are added, INFERTILITY and DEVASTATING CHRONIC DISEASE WILL RESULT. We need about five thousand dollars to get this case filed in time for the new flu vax season.
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The Top Action Items this week
- URGENT! Codex Commission Action Item: educate decision makers – demand that our voices be heard!
- NO FLU VAX! Educate Decision Makers: WE SAY “NO!”
- Senator: Put a “Hold” on Fake “Food Safety” Bill S.510! Educating Congress: Do Not Suppress Organic and Small Farmers & Ranchers; Natural Food Products…
- President Obama: Allow Natural Solutions in Your Council! – Choose Natural Solutions! No Codex HARMonization!
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This Week’s Urgent Blog Posting!
- Thimerosal-Preserved Vax – Major Cause of ‘Autism’ Epidemic
- Dissolve the FDA
- And the Winner of the Most Dangerous Agency Is…..Once Again: FDA!
- Natural Solutions Foundation Joins Young Living… For Your Health!
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Take a look at our previous blog posting, And the Winner of the Most Dangerous Agency Is…..Once Again: FDA! — http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6098
We invite you to join our campaign to “to provide new guards” for our food safety and to achieve and maintain a healthy status. And what mechanisms should be encouraged to provide the governance services FDA fails to provide? We cannot dictate that. It is for free people to make those decisions based on the lessons learned throughout history. We do that by making choices…
Action Item to Demand Health and Food Freedom:
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Dissolve the FDA
It has had 80 some years to prove its incompetence, which would not be all that bad since government incompetence is, after all, a given. Worse, tragically, murderously worse, it has become an agency of death.
The Federal Death Agency:
1. Approves drugs based on such poor clinical trials that they are guaranteed to maim, kill and cripple people, all the while “requiring” more drugs. Half of all government approved drugs are so dangerous they have to be withdrawn from the market or limited in use within five years of FDA approval.
2. Sees no conflict of interest in approval of drugs, foods, devices, vaccines in which those entrusted with the duty of rigorous examination prior to approval have enormous vested interests or have competing interests in a competing product.
3. Approves processes like irradiation which contaminate the environment, endanger workers, degrade food and increase illness in the consumers of that food requiring more drugs.
4. Approves untested anti-health foods which are genetically modified (GMOs) on the totally unscientific assumption that they are “substantially equivalent” if they look something like the unmodified food. Such approval MAY NOT be based on scientific rigor so every GMO food or product is scientifically untested. Independent science has made it clear that there is no such thing as a safe GMO, whether plant or animal, yet the Fraud and Death Administration continues to pollute both the domestic US food supply and press for global contamination through Codex and similar venues.
5. Dangerous food additives and cosmetics are routinely permitted on the shelves of the United States with little or no testing, despite strong scientific evidence of their harm
6. Food is contaminated and virtually or totally not inspected, yet the Farma Development Agency spends time, energy, money, legal and personnel resources harassing and intimidating, prosecuting and persecuting manufacturers, marketers and clinicians who use safe, natural and effective means of preserving and promoting health. Such as the traditional practice of Ear Candling: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=4790.
7. Despite legislative and First Amendment guarantees, the Fiercely Deceptive Agency engages in ruthless suppression of freedom of speech, arbitrary altering the dimensions of that free speech, illegally and unconstitutionally prosecuting those who purvey accurate information about the benefits of foods (e.g., walnuts, cherries, oats) or food components (e.g., vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc.). Raids by armed FDA Marshals, book burning, seizure of wares and products, [il]legal assault, arbitrary classification of foods and devices as untested drugs and devices, thus forbidding them without either scientific or legal justification are routine, daily activities for this agency. Anything which threatens the market share of the industries it is entrusted with regulating is attacked with publicly funded, but illegal resources.
8 Untested procedures like spraying deli meats with viruses to eat other viruses are a boon to industry, but further damage the health of consumers. But that’s apparently not important to the Foodless Dearth Agency.
9. Vaccines are not only worthless as a health strategy, they are demonstrably dangerous to health, and become more dangerous with accumulation of included toxins. Yet the Fear and Disease Agency‘s sister organization, the CDC, or Center for Disease Creation, routinely approves rapidly increasing numbers of these dangerous assaults on the immune system, knowing full well that the use of vaccines, even if they were not contaminated with stealth viruses, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, infertility agents and other known poisons, is both dangerous and unwarranted.
10. The Foolish Dangers Agency promulgates dangerous, but industry-friendly policies at Codex, assisting in bringing the level of the world’s food supply to the lowest quality level of any develop country’s food supply: that of the United States. Worse, it continually allows modifications and degradations of the US food supply, setting new standards of low quality to push for. Having brought forward industry-friendly standards in international agencies, it then introduces them into the US regulatory environment, rationalizing those new, lower standards by saying that they are approved by the international body so must be followed to avoid trade sanctions.
11. Consumers are routinely misled and information such as the genetically modified nature of foods and ingredients is routinely suppressed in a paternalistic “Government knows best!” strategy. For example, according to Freaking Distortion Agency official Barbara Schneeman, PhD, head of the FDA’s Office of Nutrition and Dietary Supplements and a frequent Head of Delegation at Codex meetings, the US even forbids the labeling of GMO Free “foods” because it knows from its research that consumers would overwhelmingly reject GMOs if they knew the truth about them. Therefore, despite legislative and judicial instruction that such suppression is illegal, it continues unabated.
12. More than 50% of the operating expenses of the Food Destruction Agency comes from “User Fees” paid by pharmaceutical companies for FDA “evaluation” of their products. That renders the FDA a corporate client of the pharmaceutical industry. Similar fees will shortly be instituted for food manufacturers.
13. The ethical values which-
— allowed regulators to advise Bayer to sell its HIV contaminated blood fractions to European hemophiliacs (who are mostly children) rather than sell them in the US
— allowed the continued sale of drugs like vaccines, Vioxx, and Avianda, and all psychoactive drugs despite the clear scientific evidence, presented by their own scientists, indicates a level of corruption and destruction which the US cannot tolerate in one of the most influential and impactful agencies in the entire government.
— allowed, and enthusiastically promotes, the use of a proven systemic toxins like fluoride in the water supply of the entire country, supports it as an additive in baby formula and water marketed for infants, in oral care products, vaccines, drugs, as a fungicidal spay for food, etc., despite the overwhelming evidence of its dangers
— allowed mercury in dental fillings and injections despite the clear dangers associated with its use in living systems
— allowed aluminum and now squalene, plus a host of known toxins, in injections given in increasing numbers to pregnant women, infants, children, the elderly, adolescents and adults – the entire population – because health-destroying vaccines are a potent long-term marketing strategy for drug companies.
An agency with neither fiscal nor regulatory independence is a menace to the health of the people of the United States and, because of the well-polished (and funded) deception foisted on the rest of the world that US food and drug science, quality and regulation are the best in the world, whatever happens in the US will be followed, inevitably by the rest of the world.
The problem is enormous. The answer, however, is remarkably simple. Just as Alexander the Great solved the problem of the Gordian Knot, which he was required to untie, but which was so complicated that it could not be untied by any human alive, we must solve the problem of the Fraud and Death Administration.
Alexander used his sword to slice through the complex knot, untying it where others could not, with a single stroke. We need to use the sword of our outrage and collective power to disband the FDA now.
We need to recapture its enormous, but dangerously deployed, budget to create an industry-free regulatory structure run by consumers and independent food and drug researchers and scientists. Anyone found to have any ties to a regulated industry would be liable for personal criminal and civil prosecution because of the severe and potentially life-threatening nature of their violation of the public trust.
A gun-wielding murderer kills victims one at a time. A corrupt food, cosmetic and drug regulator harms and kills unknown numbers of victims who, out of sight and mind of the press and the regulators, suffer the ill-effects, often chronic and largely unsuspected, of that personal, systemic, organizational, financial and moral corruption.
We need to educate Congress and the White House that the deep and irreversible corruption of the FDA requires a surgical strategy: cut the lethal Gordian knot which is the FDA and start again with a totally non-industry based solution. Should meetings with lobbyists be a criminal act? What do you think? A special, independent, Inspector General could be appointed to make sure that no industry ties were created or existed between regulators, scientists, evaluators, administrators or committee members.
Drugs and vaccines are destroying our health and killing us in vast numbers on the Food and Drug Administration’s watch. Our damaged and damaging foods are destroying our health and killing us in numbers never before seen in the developed world.
Our “Watch Dog” watches out for the most dangerous elements in our society: the Uber Cartel of Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Biotech, Big Chema and Big Medica and bites us, the owners of the mansion which is our health, our bodies and our society.
The dog must die. We need a new watch dog. Now.
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Half of All FDA Approved Drugs are Quietly Withdrawn Within 5 Years of Approval
“FDA approved” drugs means “safe”, right? Clinical trials show that drugs and vaccines are safe or they wouldn’t be allowed to be marketed, right? Drug companies have to report what actually happens in a clinical trial, right? Once a drug is approved by the FDA for market release it stays available for a long time, right?
Lethal and potentially lethal side effects from FDA approved drugs are rare, right?
The answer to these questions is one big collective, “NO!!!!!”
Here are the facts: Drug companies are free to suppress negative clinical trial information with impunity. That is not how the system is designed to work, at least on paper, but it is the way things work in the real world.
Drugs, all drugs and vaccines, enter Phase IV clinical trials when they are released for general use. Depending on how many people they kill, maim, blind or cause to suffer once doctors start prescribing the drug for whatever the FDA has approved it for, although they can use the drug for anything they want to (called “off label prescribing”). Even the callous, corrupt and conflict-of-interest-riddled FDA withdraws approximately 50% of all approved drugs within 5 years of approval because they are just too toxic to continue on the market.
How did they get approved in the first place? Well, as you will see when you read the articles below, drug companies disregard the requirements to be honest in reporting data as they choose. Given that it can cost up to a billion dollars (yes, you read that right, a billion US dollars) to research a drug and bring it to market, there is an enormous amount of pressure to get the drug into the patients’ hands by putting it in the doctor’s mind and getting it onto his/her prescription pad – no matter what.
One of the may ways drug companies accomplish what they want – drug sales, is to lie about how many people die or drop out in drug trials.
Another way is by literally purchasing the decision-makers for stock options, research grants and other inducements plucked fresh from the abundant and ever self-replenishing FDA Corruption Tree.
The results? Pharmaceutical Mayhem.
Drugs are the leading cause of death in the US and every other “developed” nation. But, not to worry, the FDA is on the job.! Oh, good. I was worried there for a moment!
You know, insultingly enough, the FDA expects you to believe that these deadly drugs released to the public to see what happens (and what happens is mayhem and murder much of the time) could possibly be an accident? Neither do I. Remember, these same drug companies are big players at Codex. They are the heirs and legatees of the German genocidalists who created Codex Alimentarius, now degrading the world’s food supply as a stepping side to “the Great Culling”, the death of 90% of the world’s population.
Bottom line, from where I stand? If you are not in an Emergency Room, there is, in my experience and belief, no reason to take drugs when inexpensive, gentle, effective and powerful natural options exist through orthomolecular medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, Bio Acoustics, NeuroBioFeedback, Frequency Medicine, chelation, detoxification and a host of other helpful, safe techniques await your decision-making. But that is the very point, isn’t it? If you are an immensely powerful drug company and you know that your drugs are toxic, expensive, dangerous, poorly conceived and poorly tested, grossly dishonestly marketed what would you do? Jeopardize your cash bonus and tell the truth, wasting a billion bucks? Probably not. Probably you would do what the drug companies (and the BioTech companies which make GMOs and are usually one and the same as the drug companies!). You would lie, and lie big!
“These drugs are safe.” “The clinical trials show it.” “People do not get sick from our drugs.” “We followed the rules.” “You can trust us!”
Stuff and nonsense!
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Ana Cantu was a Human Guinea Pig in a Drug Trial for $4,800
Vera Hassner Sharav
Monday, 26 July 2010
“The study started out with 20 subjects…For about a week there were 14 subjects. Then they started dropping…Now, we’re down to 7.”
Below, a testimonial by Ana Cantu who was one of the healthy volunteers –“a human guinea pig” as she describes herself– in a month long study that tested the effects of Norvir, an HIV drug made by Abbott Laboratories, when coupled with the antidepressant Wellbutrin, made by GlaxoSmithKline.”
Her first-hand experience provides insight about the immense “pressure for positive results in clinical trials,” the level of discomfort a human subject is expected to endure from the adverse effects of the tested drug (or combination of drugs), and the dilemma for drug manufacturers whose drug causes adverse effects so severe, the test subjects in pre-marketing trials drop out in droves. The FDA accepts study results–even if only 7 of 20 subjects complete the study. Companies are loathe to scrap a negative study: they hold on to the last 7 subjects despite severe adverse effects. The “volunteers” suffer for the payment which they would forfeit if they quit.
Ana describes how and why corporate sponsors–in her case, GSK and Abbott Labs–conceal adverse event data that may damage a drug’s chances for approval.
Despite federal law requiring companies to fully disclose to the FDA all adverse events in pre-marketing clinical trials, drug companies have repeatedly violated the law with impunity: they have failed to include in their submission of data to the FDA, the worst adverse events suffered by subjects who, as a result, dropped out of the trials.
Her observations, published in The American Statesman (below) are disturbing and insightful:
“The study started out with 20 subjects, but 6 were eliminated during the in-patient stay by the drug company sponsoring the trial for various reasons (including drinking caffeine within 24 hours of check-in). For about a week, there were 14 subjects. Then they started dropping. The first one to go was a girl with a pronounced Texas twang named Denise, who had severe jaw and tooth pain. Then extreme nausea and emesis (the clinical term for vomiting, I discovered) claimed April. Jo Kay, Paula, Amy, Alyssa and Carrie went one after another. Now we’re down to 7.”
Ana experienced severe black outs–clearly an adverse effect of the experimental drug–but she was kept in the trial against her best interest:
“The day got off to a bumpy start when I started to black out while reporting my side effects. Darkness closed in from my peripheral vision and then I saw nothing but big colored spots.
“That morning, we were standing around in the cafeteria waiting to dose. All of a sudden, I couldn’t see and lost the ability to balance. If I hadn’t been standing between two of my fellow subjects, who grabbed me and held me up, I would’ve slammed into the floor. I knew I hadn’t fainted; I could still hear just fine, but all I heard was chaos as everyone around me freaked out. I dropped into the nearest chair and put my head between my legs while the study coordinator called the on-site paramedics. While the coordinator frantically called the staff doctor, a paramedic checked and re-checked me. I did fine as long as I wasn’t on my feet for too long. The doctor cleared me to keep dosing.”
Ana explains why her continued “participation” in the trial–disregarding the danger the black outs posed to her well-being–was to accommodate the sponsoring company’s need to maintain a minimum of 7 subjects in the trial:
“The drug company had a dilemma. To submit trial results to the FDA, the study couldn’t fall below seven participants. But, unfortunately, one showed signs of serious side effects and if those results were submitted, approval was highly unlikely. If my results were dropped, the FDA would never know about the problem and the drug company could start fresh with a third trial. However, the first clinical trial had to be scrapped because too many subjects dropped out as a result of their side effects, and it looked like the second study could soon follow the same path. To gather enough healthy volunteers who fit the protocol for a third trial would require a lot of time and money, and it wasn’t something the sponsor was willing to do. So, in the end, my results and I stayed in the study.”
“Because the trial ended with the magic number of seven volunteers, the results could be submitted for review and the FDA had the opportunity to see the data. But what happens in the trials in which drug companies drop some of the subjects with the worst side effects?”
Ana Cantu’s first-hand experience confirms the finding reported by FDA’s safety officer, Dr. Thomas Marciniak, who analyzed the raw data from GSK’s Avandia trial, and found that the company concealed from the FDA the worst adverse event data, resulting in its approval precipitating preventable heart attacks and deaths.
An editorial in today’s New York Times, calls upon the FDA to revoke its questionable approval of Avastin for breast cancer because it failed to extend patients’ lives while it caused serious side effects. The drug had gained “accelerated approval” without adequate testing.
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Cantú: Anatomy of a drug trial
By Ana Cantú
AMERICAN-STATESMAN Friday, July 23, 2010
Exactly five years ago, in exchange for the most miserable month of my life, I got paid $4,800 to test the effects of a drug made by GlaxoSmithKline.
You know where you’ve heard the name GlaxoSmithKline recently, right? That’s the company on the verge of losing the approval of the Food and Drug Administration for the diabetes medication Avandia after regulators discovered omissions in a key clinical trial report. On Wednesday, the FDA ordered Glaxo to stop enrolling people in another Avandia trial.
According to a review reassessing the drug’s safety by the FDA’s Dr. Thomas Marciniak, a number of patients taking Avandia appeared to have serious heart problems that were not counted in the study’s tally of adverse events, otherwise known as side effects.
Such repeated mistakes “should not be found even as single occurrences” and “suggest serious flaws with trial conduct,” he wrote.
It can cost hundreds of millions of dollars — in some cases, close to a billion — in research and development for a drug company to secure FDA approval.
By the time a drug gets to point where it can be tested in humans, the pressure for positive results in clinical trials is immense. And I found that out first-hand when as one of the healthy volunteers — a human guinea pig — in a study that tested the effects of Norvir, an HIV drug made by Abbott Laboratories, when coupled with the antidepressant Wellbutrin, made by GlaxoSmithKline.
In exchange for that $4,800 paycheck, I spent about a month going in and out of a blocky silver building in an office park not far from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the site of a contract research lab that conducts medical studies.
During the lab’s second clinical trial of the Norvir-Wellbutrin combination, which I chronicled in a personal blog, I was known only subject No. 40.
July 12: I check in tomorrow for 4 days. I’ll be taking an antidepressant and an AIDS drug in combination for about a month.
July 13: The facility is freezing. We’re still waiting on blankets. I should’ve brought a hat and gloves. You can tell the people who do studies regularly by their baggage — they bring extra pillows and blankets and huge rolling suitcases. The building is pretty new and it’s painted in all kinds of “modern” colors like bile, which complement the black-and-white tiled floors nicely. Subjects sleep 8 to a room in bunk beds, though there are only 3 people in my room. …
My first dose of Wellbutrin is tomorrow. I hear it gives you crazy dreams.
July 14: I’ve been stuck so many times today I feel like a junkie. I had to be up by 6:12 a.m. to check vital signs and get a pre-dose blood draw. Then I had breakfast, which I had to finish: two potato, egg and cheese tacos with pico de gallo and a carton of 2% milk, which I don’t like. I took the Wellbutrin at 7:27, so precisely every hour after that I’ve been having blood drawn. For the rest of the day, it’s blood draws only every 2 hours. I carry around a clipboard that has all my procedures and meals scheduled — everything has to be done exactly as it says on the sheet or they can dock pay off your study-completion bonus.
Amusing sign near the toilets: Please do NOT use cellphones in urine monitoring stations.
July 15: Dinner was decent — teriyaki chicken, rice, salad with Italian dressing, a hunk of zucchini bread and a sugar cookie. I tried the cookie and didn’t like the aftertaste so I hid it in a spare napkin and arranged everything else on the tray to conceal it. The cafeteria workers check how much of our food we eat — we’re supposed to finish at least 50% of everything. Sometimes it’s hard, like with yesterday’s trail mix. I hope we get a good snack, which I will take my first bite of at precisely 9:32 p.m.
About half of the subjects have done trials before and say that ours isn’t so bad, even with all the blood draws. Apparently, there are some where you have them every 15 minutes. …The people who usually play Monopoly switched to Uno.
July 18: Yesterday I had my first bad blood draw.
July 20: Tomorrow I start my doses of Norvir, the AIDS drug. Fun, fun.
July 23: I started on the AIDS drug on Thursday — 300 mg twice a day. The dosage gets upped to 400 mg tomorrow. I don’t feel bad yet, though I’m sleeping less than normal. And today my stomach objected to the egg facsimile we had to eat.
July 25: I was pretty excited that I didn’t get sick after my dosings. … I think the secret is to not drink the milk. And not to eat more than 50% of the food. I’m becoming an expert in artfully rearranging things on my plate so it looks like I’ve eaten. They (try to) make us eat after taking the giant AIDS pills, but since we get the same few meals over and over, it’s gotten really hard to do. Plus, there’s a chance you’ll get sick after so you really don’t want to see nasty food twice, if you get my meaning.
July 28: I discovered that I feel better if I don’t eat after taking the horse pills. This morning, I refused to eat the breakfast tacos and felt fine. So I followed the same strategy at dinner — I did eat the peas and carrots and drank some caffeine-free root beer, but most of the meal was untouched.
Over the course of the trial, as a result of a near-constant state of nausea, I lost about 10 percent of my body weight.
To keep up my strength, for lunch, I’d go to a fast-food restaurant and order the heaviest combo on the menu (double bacon cheeseburger, fries and a huge non-caffeinated beverage) and eat as much as I could before I started to feel sick again.
Every night, insomnia cut my sleep to three hours.
Aug. 1: The study started out with 20 subjects, but 6 were eliminated during the in-patient stay by the drug company sponsoring the trial for various reasons (including drinking caffeine within 24 hours of check-in). For about a week, there were 14 subjects. Then they started dropping. The first one to go was a girl with a pronounced Texas twang named Denise, who had severe jaw and tooth pain. Then extreme nausea and emesis (the clinical term for vomiting, I discovered) claimed April. Jo Kay, Paula, Amy, Alyssa and Carrie went one after another. Now we’re down to 7. In what I view as biological injustice, none of the males have shown noticeable symptoms.
Aug. 2: I had to go see an opthamologist today, just for my safety, since I reported a migraine with aura a few days ago. Unfortunately, I’m fine. Curses. I was hoping I could get medically excused from the study — that way I’d still get paid. But it looks like I’m going to have to finish it. Only 10 more days of dosing to go. My current side effects include oral numbness and tingling in my extremities.
Aug. 6: It’s another day in lockup: cloudy skies (I think) and cold air conditioning. The day got off to a bumpy start when I started to black out while reporting my side effects. Darkness closed in from my peripheral vision and then I saw nothing but big colored spots.
That morning, we were standing around in the cafeteria waiting to dose. All of a sudden, I couldn’t see and lost the ability to balance. If I hadn’t been standing between two of my fellow subjects, who grabbed me and held me up, I would’ve slammed into the floor. I knew I hadn’t fainted; I could still hear just fine, but all I heard was chaos as everyone around me freaked out. I dropped into the nearest chair and put my head between my legs while the study coordinator called the on-site paramedics. While the coordinator frantically called the staff doctor, a paramedic checked and re-checked me. I did fine as long as I wasn’t on my feet for too long. The doctor cleared me to keep dosing.
A few days after my first blackout episode, during a scheduled outpatient visit, one of the study coordinators said I had to be examined by the on-staff doctor. “Why?” “The sponsor is concerned about your side effects,” she said.
The drug company had a dilemma. To submit trial results to the FDA, the study couldn’t fall below seven participants. But, unfortunately, one showed signs of serious side effects and if those results were submitted, approval was highly unlikely. If my results were dropped, the FDA would never know about the problem and the drug company could start fresh with a third trial. However, the first clinical trial had to be scrapped because too many subjects dropped out as a result of their side effects, and it looked like the second study could soon follow the same path. To gather enough healthy volunteers who fit the protocol for a third trial would require a lot of time and money, and it wasn’t something the sponsor was willing to do. So, in the end, my results and I stayed in the study.
Aug. 21: So yesterday I had the exit screening/physical for my drug study. I had to have my blood pressure checked 3 times because it was low, even for me. The paramedic checked me, but I was asymptomatic. She asked how I was feeling. “Fine, especially now that I’m off the drugs.” She said, “Well, it was for the good of mankind.” “I guess … and the money.”
Because the trial ended with the magic number of seven volunteers, the results could be submitted for review and the FDA had the opportunity to see the data. But what happens in the trials in which drug companies drop some of the subjects with the worst side effects?
Actually, we’ve seen what happens — with Avandia.
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When a Drug Fails
THE NEW YORK TIMES July 25, 2010
The flameout of an enormously expensive drug to treat advanced breast cancer will pose a critical test for the Food and Drug Administration. Will the agency have the courage to reverse course when a medical treatment that it approved based on preliminary evidence flops badly in follow-up studies?
Two years ago, the F.D.A. gave Avastin, which is made by the Genentech unit of Roche, “accelerated approval” as a treatment for breast cancers that have spread to other parts of the body. Such cancers are essentially incurable so the best that current treatments can do is extend a patient’s life.
The hurry-up mechanism allows approval of a drug that has not yet been proved safe and effective in thorough clinical trials but has shown promise that it might benefit patients with life-threatening diseases. Rather than make such patients wait, they are treated with the drug while the manufacturer completes additional tests.
When Avastin was granted “accelerated approval” to treat advanced breast cancer, the primary evidence was a single clinical trial. It found that Avastin, when used with another drug, slowed progression of the disease but did not significantly extend patients’ lives.
Now two follow-up trials by the manufacturer have failed to confirm even those meager gains. In the initial trial, Avastin held tumor progression at bay for five and a half months. In the two new trials, pairing Avastin with different chemotherapy drugs, the delay in tumor worsening was much shorter: up to three months in one trial and less than a month in the other. The Avastin combinations also caused serious side effects.
Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, a pace-setter in evaluating medical advances, issued draft guidance this month against using Avastin for advanced breast cancer patients in the National Health Service. It called the clinical trial data “disappointing” and the cost “too high for the limited and uncertain benefit it may offer patients.”
By a 12-to-1 vote last week, an F.D.A. advisory committee quite sensibly urged the agency to revoke Avastin’s approval for breast cancer. That would not affect its other approvals, gained through the standard regulatory process, for treating colon, lung, kidney and brain cancers. Avastin would remain available to doctors for off-label use against breast cancer. Many insurers, however, might refuse to cover an unapproved use.
The cost of Avastin has always seemed outrageously high for the medical benefits it confers. The wholesale price for a typical breast cancer patient is about $88,000 a year. Genentech has been capping annual spending at $57,000 for patients with incomes below $100,000.
The F.D.A. has rarely removed drugs that were given accelerated approval and sometimes has failed even to compel completion of follow-up studies. But there are signs it may get tougher. In June, the agency finally forced a leukemia drug off the market that had been given accelerated approval a decade ago, after a long- delayed follow-up study showed no clinical benefit and an increased risk of death. With Avastin, the follow-up studies were completed in a timely manner — with such meager results that withdrawal seems the right response.
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