"FDA poised to change the health & wellbeing of all Americans"

[leftchick]

aka: We Are Fucked! :cry:

http://www.newstarget.com/020118.html

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The FDA is now poised to dramatically change the health and well being of all Americans. Unfortunately, they are headed in the wrong direction--straight over a cliff. The FDA is supposed to make sure drugs are safe and effective; they are mandated to protect the public. However, the top two positions at the FDA are now headed by Big Pharma representatives. The Bush-appointed new FDA leadership is intent on removing any brakes being applied to the drug approval process, quite happy to turn ill Americans into human guinea pigs.

Piloting this sinking ship is Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., a Bush family friend. Since last October, he has been the temporary head of the FDA. We are now in the midst of his Senate confirmation process to be the permanent head of the FDA (a vote is expected mid September). Von Eschenbach is up to his eyeballs in Big Pharma and elite political connections, making his confirmation likely. Once the Plan B political hurdle is overcome, von Eschenbach plans to transform the FDA into a drug company. To avoid consumer confusion the FDA should change its name to something more fitting, like the Fast Drug Approval organization.

Flanking von Eschenbach is the thirty-three-year-old Scott Gottlieb, M.D. Gottlieb has no experience in drug safety and little clinical experience as a physician. Rather, he is an expert at promoting biotech stocks on Wall Street. He has numerous financial connections with drug companies. Standing in the way of Wall Street profiteering is a small group of scientists hiding in a back room at the FDA. Not surprisingly, prior to joining the FDA Gottlieb spent considerable energy lambasting the agency for not approving drugs fast enough.

Several years ago, as a member of the neo-con think tank known as the American Enterprise Institute, Gottlieb was invited into the FDA to rewrite its policy! Talk about a Trojan horse. Now that Gottlieb is second in command at the FDA, he has made it clear he doesn't want the public to know when there are problems with drugs. While the FDA continues to aggressively harass safe and effective nutritional supplements, warning letters to drug companies have dramatically declined. The FDA agenda is favorable to Big Pharma and the sickness industry. It is harmful to the personal health and health options of Americans. Gottlieb represents energized youth willing to implement the von Eschenbach plan to strengthen the sickness industry monopoly for the next fifty years.

:argh:

[Deja Q]

1. As people don't seem to want to stand up to anybody, I say

good.

That's all we're worth anyway: Lab experiments. Let's hope it's quick.

[rubberducky]

2. How many more deaths will belong to gwb??

Course it`s not so bad for him when he has never attended a single funeral for ANY of his victims.

[pooja]

3. I believe its true...

What costs more? Having an alternative to Plan B, or childbirth (costs more to have a baby and then think of the many yrs of taking that child to the Dr.s and emergency rooms)

What costs more? Throwing away bad meat, or creating a virus to prevent the body from fighting off bad bacteria in our bodies.

What costs more? Preventing cancer, or curbing the effects with drugs worth thousands of dollars until a person is bankrupt or dead?

What costs more? Teaching prevention of stds, or treating the infections?

The FDA is very harmful to Americans. There is an agenda and its not looking out for people.

[annabanana]

4. SOP

"Fox, welcome to the hen house".

[Lars39]

5. frickin' nazis