Poisoning The Elderly

(NewsTarget) On November 29, 2007 the FDA made a rather surprising, almost honest announcement. It said that it could not protect Americans from the dangers of drugs. A 56-page report by its Subcommittee on Science and Technology stated the FDA “suffers from serious scientific deficiencies and is not positioned to meet current or emerging regulatory responsibilities.” This blistering report on the life-threatening shortcomings of the FDA was released with the stamp of approval of the head of the FDA, Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.

The flagrant disregard for human health by the FDA is not news to people who follow the subject closely. The FDA has been mostly dormant while 100,000 Americans die needlessly from drugs every year and another 3 million are injured so seriously they require hospitalization (half of those were already in the hospital!). The FDA management’s neglect of duty and follow-up on drugs already on the market is unconscionable and has been for a long time.

The reason the FDA report is only “almost honest” is because the report is little more than a fear-driven PR ploy by von Eschenbach to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from Congress with no strings attached; a lobbying campaign that is actively under way as you read this. Such money will not change the FDA because the FDA management is a corrupt revolving door with the industries it is supposed to be regulating. Rather, any new money will be used to further pie-in-the-sky research initiatives crafted by von Eschenbach to create profits for the cancer and sickness industry with new and very dangerous biotech drugs (he already undermined the scientific integrity of the National Cancer Institute using the same approach).

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