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Over the last fifteen years, we saw the FDA hastily approve a vaccine FOR BABIES that was supposed to prevent diarrhea, and it ended up killing over 100 infants due to intestinal blockages. Those babies died in the very short time that the vaccine was on the market.
Then we also have the FDA approval for a device involving heart repair and that device ended up killing thousands. But the bean counters over at Merck decided it would be cheaper to pay off the families from those who died than to not have the profits from the device.
In both cases, you have the revolving door of industry-government protocols at work. So what if I approve a medical device that kills thousands, as long as you end up giving me the executive level position you've offered me once my tenure at the gov agency has expired? The bureaucrats that end up over at the FDA could care less (many of them) what some device or pill does or doesn't do. Talking as I do to independent scientists, I have come to realize that "corporate science" is simply the re-arranging of numbers to strengthen the accrediting of some substance as to its being safe.
One of the scariest conversations I have ever had was with Nancy Balter, who now works in Colorado. At the time, (Circa 1999) Ms Balter was considered the preeminent expert on the components of the gas additive MTBE. However, she did not know that MTBE when placed inside a car's combustion chamber spins off into a high proportion of the chemical formaldehyde. (This would be like a coffee expert not knowing that the substance has caffeine!) Yet this was who industry was relying on fo their safety estimates and benefit to risk models!
Meanwhile through the marvels of genetic engineering and GMO-zation of seeds and foods, the herbal drugs available to all of us for pennies on the dollars will be thrown off the market, (Obama's FDA people are already guaranteeing industry that this will happen, and in some small part it already has - google FDA and vitamin B6!) Yes, each time some company cracks the code inside the plant and then creates a synthetic pill or GMO-ized pill based on that herb's efficacy, the source of that, ie the herb, will be taken off the health food store's shelves.
And all for our own good, Guldarn it!
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