by Jon Rappoport
June 28, 2012
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In recent articles, I’ve revealed a smoking sizzling gun located on the FDA’s own web site (for all articles on this breaking story click here).
From the startpage.com search engine, type in “FDA Why Learn About Adverse Drug Reactions” and you’ll find the page. The FDA is completely aware their approved medical drugs are killing 100,000 Americans a year. THAT’S what’s on that page.
How can all those dangerous drugs the FDA certifies as safe move through the pipeline of approval and get to the public?
Yes, we all know that some doctors who sit on FDA panels have financial ties to the very companies whose drugs they are okaying. But the story goes much deeper than that.
Drug companies run clinical trials of new drugs on humans before FDA approval can occur. And those clinical trials are written up and published in medical journals.
Now, if 100,000 Americans are dying every year from the effects of drugs the FDA says are safe, the FDA is looking at published studies that are…what? The studies claim drug after drug is safe. But the drugs kill. Paradox. Contradiction. Conclusion? The published studies are fraudulent. Not just a few studies. Hundreds and thousands of them. The drug companies are providing studies that are outright criminal lies.
That’s what we have here. Since the FDA knows the drugs they approve as safe are killing 100,000 Americans every year, like clockwork, the FDA ALSO KNOWS THOUSANDS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHED STUDIES ARE LIES. The FDA knows that huge numbers of studies on drug safety are faked. Faked studies are a crime. It’s called fraud. And when the fraud leads to the deaths of people taking a drug, that’s a lot worse than fraud.
The FDA knows the studies are faked, BUT THEY DON’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THEY LET IT RIDE. That makes them an accomplice to the ongoing crime.
In a legitimate honest courtroom, if one existed, I would present that case against the FDA every day of the week and I would win.
Should we tread daintily when we know the federal agency responsible for drug safety is allowing 100,000 people to die every year? This is murder. It’s not really negligent homicide, not when it keeps happening. It’s murder. It’s on the order of a Nazi war crime.
Try this image: you are a gatekeeper. Your job, on the first day of every year, is to unlock the gate and leave it open, so people can pass through. But you know that, when you open the gate, 100,000 people who pass through will die in the following year. Yet, every January 1, you keep opening the gate.
That’s what the FDA is. That particular gatekeeper.
Case closed.
But there is further evidence that huge numbers of published studies of drugs are fraudulent. We actually have statements from medical insiders. That’s right. For example, here is one, and it comes from a devastating source, a woman who edited the most famous medical journal in the world:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Marcia Angell, MD, “Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of corruption.” NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.
What do doctors rely on? What do medical schools rely on? What do medical journals and mainstream medical reporters and drug companies and the FDA rely on?
The sanctity of published clinical trials of drugs. These trials determine whether the drugs are safe and effective. The drugs are tested on human volunteers. The results are tabulated. The trials are described in papers that are printed by medical journals.
This is science. This is rationality. This is the rock. Without these studies, the whole field of medical research would fall apart in utter chaos.
Upon this rock, and hence through media, the public becomes aware of the latest breakthrough, the newest medicine. Through doctors in their offices, the public finds out what drugs they should take—and their doctors know because their doctors have read the published studies in the medical journals, the studies that describe the clinical drug trials. Or if the doctors haven’t actually read the reports, they’ve been told about them.
It all goes back to this rock.
And when mainstream medical advocates attack so-called alternative or natural health, they mention that their own sacred profession is based on real science, on studies, on clinical trials.
One doctor told me, “The published peer-reviewed studies are what keep us from going back to the Stone Age.”
He smiled. He was confident. He was sure of himself. He had science on his side. And he was dead wrong. The science is a sham, it’s in tatters, it’s broken, crushed, smashed.
Here is more evidence. I quote an article in the NY Review of Books (May 12, 2011) by Helen Epstein, “Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies.”
“Six years ago, John Ioannidis, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece, found that nearly half of published articles in scientific journals contained findings that were false.”
Here’s another quote from the same article:
“Last year, GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia was linked to thousands of heart attacks, and earlier in the decade, the company’s antidepressant Paxil was discovered to exacerbate the risk of suicide in young people. Merck’s painkiller Vioxx was also linked to thousands of heart disease deaths. In each case, the scientific literature gave little hint of these dangers.”
And here is yet another statement from Marcia Angell, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine:
“A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.”
It turns out that the source of the informational pipeline that feeds the entire perception of pharmaceutical medicine is a rank fraud.
Doctors say: “We have the clinical trials of studies on drugs and they are published in top-rank journals. We are the epitome of science.”
Yes, false science. Riddled from top to bottom with lies.
Perhaps this will help the next time a friend, pretending he actually knows anything, tells you pharmaceutical medicine is a resounding success.
If you need more, cite Dr. Barbara Starfield’s famous study, “Is US health really the best in the world?” Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 2000. Starfield concludes that 225,000 people are killed by the medical system in the US every year—106,000 by FDA-approved medicines. That latter figure works out to over a MILLION deaths per decade.
A final note: The august editors of medical journals have a game they can play. Suppose a drug company has just finished writing up the results of a clinical drug trial and has submitted the piece to a journal for publication. The editor knows the company carried out a half-dozen other such trials on the same drug…and they didn’t look good. The drug caused wild fluctuations in blood pressure and blood sugar. There were heart attacks. Strokes. But this ONE study, the one submitted for publication, looks very positive. The editor knows if he prints it and forgets about “ethics,” the drug company will order re-prints of the piece from him and distribute them to doctors all over the world, and to reporters, professors, government officials. The drug company will order and pay for these re-prints; the medical journal can make $700,000 from publishing THAT ONE STUDY. In one hand, the editor sees: I won’t publish it=no money. In the other hand, he sees: I’ll publish it=$700,000. What to do?
As a reporter investigating deep medical fraud and crime for 30 years, I’ve spoken to people throughout the medical system. They all cling to the idea that published studies are the final and ultimate rationalization for their professional existence.
Well, the system has crashed. It’s broken up into pieces. And yet these professionals move on, as if everything is normal. It’s an illustration that consensus reality about science can be stronger than legitimate science itself. The blinders are firmly in place. March ahead. Pretend the truth is on your side. Salute high ideals. Fake it all the way. While huge numbers of people die.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
If that’s what they’re saying on their website – you know it’s gotta be worse. Dr. Carolyn Dean’s research proves it – and she didn’t even know about the deaths from sleeping pills. And over the counter drugs are not included in the tally, but there are plenty of those too.
The Bible tells us that pharmakia is prohibited, it is akin to sorcery and it would seem that after a short time when it was in the true spirit it has founded on the rocks again with lies and murder on its way to riches and the lake of fire. I wouldn’t touch a pill not even as a last resort.
So the 100,000+ number. Is it just prescription drugs? What are the range of qualifications for Adverse Drug Reaction deaths? I’m wondering, if someone has stroke because of medication, and then a month later he dies of pneumonia while in the hospital, would that fit under this umbrella, or is it missed? What about someone who dies a couple years later from a complication? Like Paul Fassa, I’m thinking this number might be a good bit higher.
Also, thanks for hitting this regularly, Rappoport. It reminds me to bring it up to everyone I can as often as I can. It usually produces a “does not compute” look on their faces, but that’s to be expected. Concrete doesn’t crack after only the first rainfall.
Thank you for this excellent article. This is what I speculated but I could not believe there would be such outright fabrication. Now you have confirmed it. It just goes to show how backwards a health care system is that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year for the sake of greed.
Most deaths from drugs are associated with bleeding events. The use of antibiotic markers in GMO food and unknown causes of bleeding deaths to animals fed GMO food makes you wonder what GMO experts have expertise in.
Also the very young and very old are excessively prone to adverse reactions from drugs and / or vaccines and often the two are given at the same time.
Why is it done? For money and for the fact that sufficient actually benefit from what kills the less fortunate and of course the big dose of ignorance, complicity or simple lust for genocide.
USA often take billions of the drug companies and the patients get compensation if you believe compensation pays for a dead one day baby or for life in a wheelchair for 30 years.
But worse in many countries and even first world countries the companies known killer drugs attract NO compensation whatsoever and not even a pittance to say sorry.
And the bottom line as mentioned the true extent may be ten times, a hundred times or even more but we just dont know and from the actions of drug companies we dont care either.
GMO companies stand behind we make the stuff and its safety is NONE of our business.
And like the 2 million the FDA knows get harmed the FDA simply surrenders to Big pHARMA.
I have been trying to tell people for years that our government is doing things for themselves not the people. The FDA is a farce and does not do their jobs, oh wait they are headed up by big biz executives who get their products through with no testing, just fake studies. If you use techniques 40 to 50 years old they are very easy to manipulate. But if those give bad results then just write up a fake one. Thanks for such a good article that proves my point.
Start looking at our politicians and others who run government departments and check out their stock portifolios. who they work for as well as what they own outright. You may see a connection with profits at all costs since that is more important than our safety.
A healthy level of skepticism regarding the level of credence we give to even “large randomized trials” can keep us from jumping on each passing bandwagon for new, as yet poorly understood drugs. For instance recent excitement for the new arsenal of blood thinners set to replace Coumadin is now being tempered by the number of patients coming in with life threatening bleeding events. The trials may have underestimated risks… For a lighthearted take on medical studies, try our recent post “smooth jazz may cause poor fetal growth.”
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Thanks, Jon, for telling the truth about the legal drugs that doctors push. I am an herbalist and have been telling folks for years how they can help themselves without the use of drugs. I tell them to read about herbs that have been purported and documented to handle their particular disorders and to be willing to learn more about helping themselves. It is the adding of man-made chemicals as additives or preservatives that permit the patenting of a “drug,” because herbs come from our Creator and therefore cannot be patented, at least not yet. But who knows what’s to come?
I have suspected this for a long time. It’s not just th US, this is going on in a lot of countries