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With Recalls at an All-Time High, Meet Big Pharma's Newest Scam
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prescription drugRecalls of prescription and over the counter drugs
are surging in the U.S. The FDA reported more than 1,700 recalls last
year, compared to less than 430 in 2008.
One single company, drug repackager Advantage Dose, accounted for more
than 1,000 of those recalls. But even excluding Advantage Dose,
recalls jumped 50 percent last year.
CNN reports:
"The fast pace of drug recalls seems to be continuing in 2010 ...
High-profile recalls of Tylenol and other products ... have drawn
attention to quality concerns in manufacturing ...
The spike in recalls, especially of generic and over-the-counter
drugs, is being driven by manufacturing lapses, experts say. Some of
the biggest culprits: the quality of raw materials, faulty labeling
and packaging and contamination."
Sources:
CNN August 16, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
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CNN's chart, below, shows the number of drug recalls between 2006
and 2009. Over the initial three years, recalls kept inching upward,
only to spike dramatically between 2008 and 2009, from 426 recalls to
1,742.
That's an increase of 309 percent in one year!
drug recalls, CNN illustrative chart
A single drug repacker, which has since been shut down, accounted
for over 1,000 of those recalls, but even if you discount that one
rotten apple, drug recalls still rose by over 50 percent.
Recent Drug Recalls Revisited
As recently as May, drug maker Johnson and Johnson voluntarily
recalled all unexpired lots of certain over-the-counter (OTC)
pediatric drugs, including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl
products, after they discovered "manufacturing deficiencies that could
affect the quality, purity or potency of the medicines."(A full list
of the products affected by the recall can be found at this link.)
The recalled products were found to contain either:
1. Higher concentration of active ingredient than specified
2. Inactive ingredients that may not meet testing requirements
3. Tiny particles of unspecified origin
Amazingly, that was the second mass recall of these types of OTC
drugs within less than a year.
In September of 2008, 21 children's and infant's Tylenol liquid
products were deemed potentially unsafe due to bacterial contamination
found in one of the inactive ingredients.
With all these recalls occurring, how can any health conscious
consumer trust the safety or the effectiveness of any of these drugs?
I find it astonishing that while drug prices in general are
soaring, drug manufacturers are still using rising costs as an excuse
for failing to produce high-quality, pure products.
How about getting by with a little less profit in order to ensure
each product is at minimum free of contamination and contains the
specified amount of ingredients?
After all, as of 2007, the pharmaceutical industry was worth more
money than the gross domestic product (GDP) – which is the market
value of all the output produced in a nation in one year -- of entire
COUNTRIES, including Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland, according to
statistics from the World Bank.
In fact, if placed on the list ranking the countries of the world
according to gross domestic product, the pharmaceutical industry
ranked number 17 out of 185 countries in 2007!
But apparently, that's still "not enough"…
Next Step You Need to be Aware of - - the Switch from Drugs to
Vaccines
As the patents on many blockbuster drugs are expiring, and Big
Pharma is increasingly found liable for damages from dangerous drugs,
drug companies have shifted their focus from drugs to vaccines.
There are currently vaccines against everything from obesity to
smoking, and even stress, in the pipelines – health concerns that have
precious little to do with bacterial or viral infections, which is the
basis for the vaccine theory in the first place (and even that theory
is up for discussion).
Aside from being potentially dangerous to the extreme, why is this
trend so troubling?
In a nutshell: Lack of liability.
Drug companies have fiercely defended every single drug ever
recalled as being safe and effective – until definitively proven dead
wrong, and sometimes they still wouldn't fess up to their culpability.
The same shameless, misleading strategies used for drugs are being
used for vaccines.
But with vaccines, not only are the health risks far greater for
you and your family, the subsequent liability for the drug company is
greatly reduced or even eliminated!
So you take ALL the risk, while the drug companies demand your
trust, take your money, and avoids any legal actions should your life
be destroyed by one of their vaccines.
From a drug maker's perspective, vaccines may be one of the
absolute "safest" products to make, because their liability is
negligible to non-existent, depending on the vaccine.
Pandemic vaccines are 100 percent risk-free for the vaccine maker,
as laws ushered in after 9/11 exempt them from ANY liability. And,
making matters worse, the laws create a negative incentive to test it
for safety, because if they are fully aware of problems, then they
could potentially be held liable for willful misconduct! It's in their
best interest to know as little as possible about the adverse
reactions their vaccine might cause.
Non-pandemic vaccine injuries fall under the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which is a no-fault federal vaccine injury
compensation program. But again, very few vaccine injured children
ever receive compensation from this program, and as explained in this
previous article, the program is so seriously flawed as to be useless.
Getting back to the issue of recalling dangerous medicines,
without liability, what incentive is there to voluntarily recall a
vaccine when dangers or serious problems are discovered?
None!
The HPV vaccine Gardasil has obvious problems that have led to 53
recorded deaths of vibrant, healthy young girls, and yet everyone is
moving on like nothing is the matter. No recall. Not even an official
warning.
So should we buy into the promises of safe, pure, effective
vaccines, when history has shown us that mistakes occur FAR more
frequently than anyone would dare to guess – both in drug and vaccine
manufacturing?
The answer, of course, is up to you. But they won't be getting my
vote of confidence anytime soon.
Deception at an All Time High
Adding to this debauched mess is the rise in out-and-out
deception, as Prevent Disease describes so well in this recent
article.
It's become very apparent that disinformation operations are at an
all-time high – or at least it is the most OBVIOUS campaigning we've
ever been privy to.
Prevent Disease, in an attempt to demonstrate the outright lies by
national governments and the media, highlights three examples from the
last year alone — the H1N1 scandal, airport body scanners, and the BP
oil disaster.
According to Prevent Disease:
"... [T]he H1N1 scandal reached its pinnacle in the fall of
2009 ... From radio, internet, television, newspapers, magazines,
outdoor posters, signage and promotions, you could not escape the flu
hype campaigns so diligently pursued by all the malicious agendas at
play who only wanted one thing — to promote a dangerous H1N1 vaccine.
After hundreds of reports exposed the criminal activity by all
levels of government, we left the same people in power to do it all
over again."
And when news first unfolded about the BP oil disaster, the
immediate response was to cover-up, deny, and respond with ignorance.
In the end, a private company was permitted to use extremely potent
toxins to mask the extent of their environmental crime while putting
tens of thousands, if not millions of American's health at risk.
Prevent Disease goes on to list "25 rules of disinformation,"
employed with great success by a number of individuals with the intent
to "prevent rational and complete examination of any chain of evidence
which would hang them."
It may be well worth your time to read through them, as being
aware of how the con is done will help you avoid being conned in the
first place.
Who Do You Trust, and Why, Exactly?
Another interesting article that ties in here was published in the
British Guardian, under the headline: "Drug firms hiding negative
research are unfit to experiment on people. Another pharmaceutical
giant has settled a big compensation claim. So why are they allowed to
go on misleading the public?"
That is becoming the ten thousand dollar question…
Why are drug companies ALLOWED to continue maintaining the status
quo despite being caught lying, defrauding, even knowingly killing,
time and time again?
And perhaps even more intriguing, why is the public still falling
for their tactics?
Just how many bizarre and devastating side effects must be rattled
off at the end of a drug ad before it grabs your attention and make
you question its stated benefit?
I believe that humans inherently want to trust and depend on
authority. The question is, at which point does critical thinking and
pure self-preservation kick in? It seems we're still waiting for
critical mass to be reached when it comes to this point, but I think
we're getting closer…
One such authority that have been granted full trust are
scientists, employing the scientific method to prove or disprove the
causes of health, disease, and drug safety, among many things.
But even in these prestigious vestiges of medicine, we're now
finding more and more evidence of corruption that threatens the entire
premise of the scientific method. Dr. Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD has
shared shocking information about the underbelly of medical science in
this newsletter, as well as Dana Ullman.
If you missed either of those interviews, I highly recommend
reviewing them now.
Ullman also has a phenomenal column in the Huffington Post, where
he recently wrote:
"Doctors today commonly assert that they practice "scientific
medicine," and patients think that the medical treatments they receive
are "scientifically proven."
However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and
profitable marketing ruse, not fact."
Recent court cases highlight the truth of what Golomb and Ullman
discuss. For example, it was discovered that AstraZeneca purposefully
"buried" studies with unflattering results for their drug Seroquel.
The Guardian's Ben Goldacre writes:
"In trial 15, patients with schizophrenia who were in
remission were randomly assigned to receive either Seroquel, or a
cheap, old-fashioned drug. After a year, the patients on Seroquel were
doing worse. These negative findings were left unpublished.
… Here is the opening of another email in that quetiapine
case. Richard Lawrence writes in an internal memo to colleagues: "Lisa
has done a great smoke and mirrors job on trial 15.""
Smoke and mirrors… Ain't that the truth! And that is oftentimes
what you're using when making decisions that affect your health.
In the case of Seroquel, this smoke and mirrors job led to tens of
thousands of people developing drug-induced diabetes, in addition to
not actually working as advertised... Once these buried studies were
unearthed, AstraZeneca ended up paying off more than 17,500 patients
who had developed diabetes and related illnesses.
Again, I remind you that class action lawsuits against drug
manufacturers for vaccine damage is not an option. They rigged the
game years ago and effectively lobbied Congress to make it illegal to
sue them for any vaccine related injuries.
So, beware jumping on the vaccine bandwagon for every ill.
Healthy Lifestyle – Not Pills or Injections – is the Answer to Your
Health Problems
It should be self evident by now that the idea of synthetic
chemicals being the answer for your health problems is FALSE.
However, there are certain basic tenets of optimal health that
have remained permanent truths, regardless of the claim-of-the-day
spouted by modern science, and these include:
1. Eat a healthy diet that's right for your nutritional type,
paying very careful attention to keeping your insulin levels down.
This typically involves increasing your consumption of whole
(preferably organic) foods, while avoiding processed foods and sugary
drinks of all kinds, as they are loaded with fructose, genetically
modified ingredients, and chemicals.
2. Drink plenty of clean water
3. Address your day-to-day stress
4. Exercise
5. Get plenty of appropriate sun exposure
6. Limit your exposure to toxins
7. Consume healthy fats
8. Eat plenty of raw food
9. Optimize your insulin and leptin levels
10. Get plenty of sleep
Remember, leading a common sense, healthy lifestyle is your best
bet to produce a healthy body and mind, and increase your longevity.
Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, and
even government itself sure won't make it easy for you to avoid the
garbage that ruins your health.
The drug industry spends about $15 billion a year manipulating and
distorting your perceptions about the proper solutions for your health
challenges. And, the food industry spends TWICE that much to brainwash
you and your children to choose highly processed convenience foods
that will accelerate your path toward death and disease -- and your
need to use drugs to control your symptoms.
It's a vicious cycle of deceit and misinformation!
Fortunately, you can still take self-responsibility, educate
yourself, make better, healthier choices, and be a living testament to
what the truth of the matter really is.
By adhering to the basic tenets of optimal health – the basics of
a healthy lifestyle, not just a temporary fix for a particular ailment
-- you are building a healthy mind and body, and thereby safeguarding
yourself against a multitude of health problems and serious diseases.
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From: "white cockatoo" The Herald <rainbowrockfoundation@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM
Subject: [opinion 272] Big Pharma's NEW SCAM. IGNORE THIS AT YOUR OWN PERYL !!
To: Opinion <opinion@googlegroups.com>
With Recalls at an All-Time High, Meet Big Pharma's Newest Scam
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 08 2010 | 34,170 views
Share752
Email to a friend
Previous Article
Next Article
prescription drugRecalls of prescription and over the counter drugs
are surging in the U.S. The FDA reported more than 1,700 recalls last
year, compared to less than 430 in 2008.
One single company, drug repackager Advantage Dose, accounted for more
than 1,000 of those recalls. But even excluding Advantage Dose,
recalls jumped 50 percent last year.
CNN reports:
"The fast pace of drug recalls seems to be continuing in 2010 ...
High-profile recalls of Tylenol and other products ... have drawn
attention to quality concerns in manufacturing ...
The spike in recalls, especially of generic and over-the-counter
drugs, is being driven by manufacturing lapses, experts say. Some of
the biggest culprits: the quality of raw materials, faulty labeling
and packaging and contamination."
Sources:
CNN August 16, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
Follow me on twitter Follow me on facebook
CNN's chart, below, shows the number of drug recalls between 2006
and 2009. Over the initial three years, recalls kept inching upward,
only to spike dramatically between 2008 and 2009, from 426 recalls to
1,742.
That's an increase of 309 percent in one year!
drug recalls, CNN illustrative chart
A single drug repacker, which has since been shut down, accounted
for over 1,000 of those recalls, but even if you discount that one
rotten apple, drug recalls still rose by over 50 percent.
Recent Drug Recalls Revisited
As recently as May, drug maker Johnson and Johnson voluntarily
recalled all unexpired lots of certain over-the-counter (OTC)
pediatric drugs, including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl
products, after they discovered "manufacturing deficiencies that could
affect the quality, purity or potency of the medicines."(A full list
of the products affected by the recall can be found at this link.)
The recalled products were found to contain either:
1. Higher concentration of active ingredient than specified
2. Inactive ingredients that may not meet testing requirements
3. Tiny particles of unspecified origin
Amazingly, that was the second mass recall of these types of OTC
drugs within less than a year.
In September of 2008, 21 children's and infant's Tylenol liquid
products were deemed potentially unsafe due to bacterial contamination
found in one of the inactive ingredients.
With all these recalls occurring, how can any health conscious
consumer trust the safety or the effectiveness of any of these drugs?
I find it astonishing that while drug prices in general are
soaring, drug manufacturers are still using rising costs as an excuse
for failing to produce high-quality, pure products.
How about getting by with a little less profit in order to ensure
each product is at minimum free of contamination and contains the
specified amount of ingredients?
After all, as of 2007, the pharmaceutical industry was worth more
money than the gross domestic product (GDP) – which is the market
value of all the output produced in a nation in one year -- of entire
COUNTRIES, including Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland, according to
statistics from the World Bank.
In fact, if placed on the list ranking the countries of the world
according to gross domestic product, the pharmaceutical industry
ranked number 17 out of 185 countries in 2007!
But apparently, that's still "not enough"…
Next Step You Need to be Aware of - - the Switch from Drugs to
Vaccines
As the patents on many blockbuster drugs are expiring, and Big
Pharma is increasingly found liable for damages from dangerous drugs,
drug companies have shifted their focus from drugs to vaccines.
There are currently vaccines against everything from obesity to
smoking, and even stress, in the pipelines – health concerns that have
precious little to do with bacterial or viral infections, which is the
basis for the vaccine theory in the first place (and even that theory
is up for discussion).
Aside from being potentially dangerous to the extreme, why is this
trend so troubling?
In a nutshell: Lack of liability.
Drug companies have fiercely defended every single drug ever
recalled as being safe and effective – until definitively proven dead
wrong, and sometimes they still wouldn't fess up to their culpability.
The same shameless, misleading strategies used for drugs are being
used for vaccines.
But with vaccines, not only are the health risks far greater for
you and your family, the subsequent liability for the drug company is
greatly reduced or even eliminated!
So you take ALL the risk, while the drug companies demand your
trust, take your money, and avoids any legal actions should your life
be destroyed by one of their vaccines.
From a drug maker's perspective, vaccines may be one of the
absolute "safest" products to make, because their liability is
negligible to non-existent, depending on the vaccine.
Pandemic vaccines are 100 percent risk-free for the vaccine maker,
as laws ushered in after 9/11 exempt them from ANY liability. And,
making matters worse, the laws create a negative incentive to test it
for safety, because if they are fully aware of problems, then they
could potentially be held liable for willful misconduct! It's in their
best interest to know as little as possible about the adverse
reactions their vaccine might cause.
Non-pandemic vaccine injuries fall under the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which is a no-fault federal vaccine injury
compensation program. But again, very few vaccine injured children
ever receive compensation from this program, and as explained in this
previous article, the program is so seriously flawed as to be useless.
Getting back to the issue of recalling dangerous medicines,
without liability, what incentive is there to voluntarily recall a
vaccine when dangers or serious problems are discovered?
None!
The HPV vaccine Gardasil has obvious problems that have led to 53
recorded deaths of vibrant, healthy young girls, and yet everyone is
moving on like nothing is the matter. No recall. Not even an official
warning.
So should we buy into the promises of safe, pure, effective
vaccines, when history has shown us that mistakes occur FAR more
frequently than anyone would dare to guess – both in drug and vaccine
manufacturing?
The answer, of course, is up to you. But they won't be getting my
vote of confidence anytime soon.
Deception at an All Time High
Adding to this debauched mess is the rise in out-and-out
deception, as Prevent Disease describes so well in this recent
article.
It's become very apparent that disinformation operations are at an
all-time high – or at least it is the most OBVIOUS campaigning we've
ever been privy to.
Prevent Disease, in an attempt to demonstrate the outright lies by
national governments and the media, highlights three examples from the
last year alone — the H1N1 scandal, airport body scanners, and the BP
oil disaster.
According to Prevent Disease:
"... [T]he H1N1 scandal reached its pinnacle in the fall of
2009 ... From radio, internet, television, newspapers, magazines,
outdoor posters, signage and promotions, you could not escape the flu
hype campaigns so diligently pursued by all the malicious agendas at
play who only wanted one thing — to promote a dangerous H1N1 vaccine.
After hundreds of reports exposed the criminal activity by all
levels of government, we left the same people in power to do it all
over again."
And when news first unfolded about the BP oil disaster, the
immediate response was to cover-up, deny, and respond with ignorance.
In the end, a private company was permitted to use extremely potent
toxins to mask the extent of their environmental crime while putting
tens of thousands, if not millions of American's health at risk.
Prevent Disease goes on to list "25 rules of disinformation,"
employed with great success by a number of individuals with the intent
to "prevent rational and complete examination of any chain of evidence
which would hang them."
It may be well worth your time to read through them, as being
aware of how the con is done will help you avoid being conned in the
first place.
Who Do You Trust, and Why, Exactly?
Another interesting article that ties in here was published in the
British Guardian, under the headline: "Drug firms hiding negative
research are unfit to experiment on people. Another pharmaceutical
giant has settled a big compensation claim. So why are they allowed to
go on misleading the public?"
That is becoming the ten thousand dollar question…
Why are drug companies ALLOWED to continue maintaining the status
quo despite being caught lying, defrauding, even knowingly killing,
time and time again?
And perhaps even more intriguing, why is the public still falling
for their tactics?
Just how many bizarre and devastating side effects must be rattled
off at the end of a drug ad before it grabs your attention and make
you question its stated benefit?
I believe that humans inherently want to trust and depend on
authority. The question is, at which point does critical thinking and
pure self-preservation kick in? It seems we're still waiting for
critical mass to be reached when it comes to this point, but I think
we're getting closer…
One such authority that have been granted full trust are
scientists, employing the scientific method to prove or disprove the
causes of health, disease, and drug safety, among many things.
But even in these prestigious vestiges of medicine, we're now
finding more and more evidence of corruption that threatens the entire
premise of the scientific method. Dr. Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD has
shared shocking information about the underbelly of medical science in
this newsletter, as well as Dana Ullman.
If you missed either of those interviews, I highly recommend
reviewing them now.
Ullman also has a phenomenal column in the Huffington Post, where
he recently wrote:
"Doctors today commonly assert that they practice "scientific
medicine," and patients think that the medical treatments they receive
are "scientifically proven."
However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and
profitable marketing ruse, not fact."
Recent court cases highlight the truth of what Golomb and Ullman
discuss. For example, it was discovered that AstraZeneca purposefully
"buried" studies with unflattering results for their drug Seroquel.
The Guardian's Ben Goldacre writes:
"In trial 15, patients with schizophrenia who were in
remission were randomly assigned to receive either Seroquel, or a
cheap, old-fashioned drug. After a year, the patients on Seroquel were
doing worse. These negative findings were left unpublished.
… Here is the opening of another email in that quetiapine
case. Richard Lawrence writes in an internal memo to colleagues: "Lisa
has done a great smoke and mirrors job on trial 15.""
Smoke and mirrors… Ain't that the truth! And that is oftentimes
what you're using when making decisions that affect your health.
In the case of Seroquel, this smoke and mirrors job led to tens of
thousands of people developing drug-induced diabetes, in addition to
not actually working as advertised... Once these buried studies were
unearthed, AstraZeneca ended up paying off more than 17,500 patients
who had developed diabetes and related illnesses.
Again, I remind you that class action lawsuits against drug
manufacturers for vaccine damage is not an option. They rigged the
game years ago and effectively lobbied Congress to make it illegal to
sue them for any vaccine related injuries.
So, beware jumping on the vaccine bandwagon for every ill.
Healthy Lifestyle – Not Pills or Injections – is the Answer to Your
Health Problems
It should be self evident by now that the idea of synthetic
chemicals being the answer for your health problems is FALSE.
However, there are certain basic tenets of optimal health that
have remained permanent truths, regardless of the claim-of-the-day
spouted by modern science, and these include:
1. Eat a healthy diet that's right for your nutritional type,
paying very careful attention to keeping your insulin levels down.
This typically involves increasing your consumption of whole
(preferably organic) foods, while avoiding processed foods and sugary
drinks of all kinds, as they are loaded with fructose, genetically
modified ingredients, and chemicals.
2. Drink plenty of clean water
3. Address your day-to-day stress
4. Exercise
5. Get plenty of appropriate sun exposure
6. Limit your exposure to toxins
7. Consume healthy fats
8. Eat plenty of raw food
9. Optimize your insulin and leptin levels
10. Get plenty of sleep
Remember, leading a common sense, healthy lifestyle is your best
bet to produce a healthy body and mind, and increase your longevity.
Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, and
even government itself sure won't make it easy for you to avoid the
garbage that ruins your health.
The drug industry spends about $15 billion a year manipulating and
distorting your perceptions about the proper solutions for your health
challenges. And, the food industry spends TWICE that much to brainwash
you and your children to choose highly processed convenience foods
that will accelerate your path toward death and disease -- and your
need to use drugs to control your symptoms.
It's a vicious cycle of deceit and misinformation!
Fortunately, you can still take self-responsibility, educate
yourself, make better, healthier choices, and be a living testament to
what the truth of the matter really is.
By adhering to the basic tenets of optimal health – the basics of
a healthy lifestyle, not just a temporary fix for a particular ailment
-- you are building a healthy mind and body, and thereby safeguarding
yourself against a multitude of health problems and serious diseases.
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