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8. Milk produced in the United States comes from cows injected with synthetic hormones that have been banned in every other advanced nation in the world. These hormones help explain why unusually young teenage girls develop breasts at such a young age,

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ADHD in children is caused almost entirely by the consumption of processed food ingredients such as artificial colors and refined carbohydrates. Eighty percent of so-called ADHD children who are taken off processed foods are cured of ADHD in two weeks. See articles on ADHD.

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June 30, 2006 is a day that will be long remembered as a dark milestone in the history of FDA and its campaign against health consumers. On June 30, an FDA "Final Rule" goes into effect, establishing a regulatory power grab of such scale and scope that it attempts to bypass all laws, the will of Congress and fundamental protections for consumers. This "Final Rule," which may as well be called a "Final Solution" for drug consumers, claims that consumers can no longer sue drug companies for the harm caused by any FDA-approved drug, even if the drug's manufacturer intentionally misled the FDA by hiding or fabricating clinical trial data.

In one blatantly illegal act, the FDA is attempting to pull off the greatest Big Pharma coup of all: The outright elimination of any responsibility whatsoever for the suffering and death caused by deadly pharmaceuticals.

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COTT's core constituency is the estimated 10,000 hemophiliacs in America who have been infected with the HIV/AIDS virus through medical transfusions of contaminated blood products.

COTT was born in fire during the late 1980s -- half of the entire American hemophiliac community was already infected, and many were sick and dying from full-blown AIDS. No one knew what was happening. Small meetings in New England, called simply for mutual support, evolved rapidly into a nationwide advocacy network as the scope of the tragedy became clear. When the contamination of the nation's blood supply was discovered in 1989, and officially denied, COTT was incorporated in Massachusetts.

COTT gained national credibility when Senator Kennedy and others persuaded the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine to study the situation. Their 1995 Report, "HIV and the Blood Supply--An Analysis of Crisis Decision-Making" found serious systemic faults in the corporate/government blood monitoring structure of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). It recommended rewriting the FDA's conflict-of-interest policies, which led to the replacement of the relevant Advisory Committee and the inclusion of COTT representation.

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But HIV/AIDS contamination was just the tip of the iceberg. It was soon discovered that Hepatitis C contamination has infected nearly 300,000 citizens.

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I am both shocked and appalled at the recent decision by the FDA advisory
panel to re-approve Vioxx and put the stamp of safety on all Cox-2
inhibitors, including Bextra and Celebrex. This vote came immediately after
another vote in which the panel nearly unanimously agreed that all of these
Cox-2 inhibitors significantly increased the risk of heart disease and heart
attacks in patients. You may ask, "How can a panel that just voted to
recognize the greatly increased risk of these drugs turn around and vote to
have them classified as safe for human consumption?" The answer is that they
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Dear Mrs. Reno:

I'm writing to advise you of serious corporate and bureaucratic crimes. Title 18, Section 1001, Criminal Code declares: Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully -

* (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
* (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation;
* (3) or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned ...

FDA wanted Searle indicted for fraud, but U.S. Prosecutors Skinner and Conlon switched sides and the statute of limitations expired. Finally, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, FDA Commissioner, overruled the Board of Inquiry and approved aspartame and hired with NutraSweet's PR. He has refused to speak to the press ever since. p/quote]

read the link, it gets even worse... http://www.the7thfire.com/health_and_nutrition/aspartame_crimes.htm

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10 of 32 FDA Vioxx Panelists Had Industry Ties_NYT / Cozy NIH Review "Clears" NIH Industry Ties_WashPost

Fri, 25 Feb 2005

The latest example of the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care policy is the composition of FDA's advisory panel that last week endorsed the marketing of lethal COX-2 pain killers. A front page article in today's New York Times (below) reports that 10 of the 32 panelists on FDA's advisory committee swung the votes last week in favor of allowing the continued marketing of painkillers that induce fatal heart attacks and strokes had ties with those drugs' manufacturers--Pfizer and Merck.

"If the 10 advisers had not cast their votes, the committee would have voted 12 to 8 that Bextra should be withdrawn and 14 to 8 that Vioxx should not return to the market. The 10 advisers with company ties voted 9 to 1 to keep Bextra on the market and 9 to 1 for Vioxx's return."

The 10 panelists were identified by Merril Goozner of The Center for Science in the Public Interest from disclosures in medical journals and other public documents. Other panelists may have similar conflicts that have not yet been identified.

Major, pervasive conflicts of interest among senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health were documented by the Los Angeles Times beginning with a major expose on December 7, 2003. The scope and severity of NIH scientists' conflicts of interest is staggering - 94% of the top paid NIH scientists failed to report their financial deals with pharmaceutical companies. Several Congressional hearings were held in 2004, and a request by Congressional staff sent to just 20--out of several hundred pharmaceutical companies - yielded 100 names of NIH scientists with whom the companies had financial deals. These 100 represent the tip of an iceberg.

The scientists who receive the highest government salaries, continue to deny all and have embarked on a battle against restrictions on their supplemental income. Multiple investigations confirmed the evidence uncovered by the LA Times, leading Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of NIH, to finally issue new conflict of interest regulations, effective Feb. 3, 2005. But as Dr. Zerhouni predicted, the hardest part is to change the culture at NIH: "It's easy to come up with regulations. It's not easy to change a culture."

The new rules are meant to root out conflicts of interest and prevent major ethical abuses affecting the safety of patients and the integrity of medicine. The new rules will bring NIH staff scientists in line with federal legislation prohibiting government employees from having conflicts of interest or using insider information for self-enrichment.

But the NIH scientists are furious about a requirement that they divest themselves of pharmaceutical company stocks. Incredibly, they seem to have found support from apologists at the Washington Post.

Earlier this week, a front page article, accompanied by an editorial, supported the disgruntled NIH scientists who had used their position and insider knowledge. Scientists at NIH have a sense of entitlement to be free to strike stock option deals with companies for whom they conducted clinical trials, to engage in lucrative lecture and consultancy deals--while drawing the highest level government salaries.

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AND THIS IS JUST IN THE LAST 20 YEARS!!!! DO YOU WANT ME TO GO BACK FROM THE BEGINNING OF fda'S INCEPTION AND SHOW YOU MORE CRIMES???

jesus christ people.... wake up. Nothing the FDA has ever done has been directly for the good of the people, it is all for financial gain, enriching and condensing of power. For the last 30 years the FDA has strictly regulated and debarred so many people affiliated with generic drug producers, handing down judgement, punishment and ridicule on those who have broken the law..... but only with generic manufacturers.... while at the same time excusing the big name pharm companies for doing THE EXACT SAME THINGS!

so you not see a pattern here? how in the midst of such bullshit as ADHD/depression/anxiety and all the new designer drugs could you possibly think that you havent been duped into believing one of the biggest bullshit stories ever? how can you think that the FDA is efficient, safe, and scientific? as well as having your best interests in mind?

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Because you are grossly oversimplifying the drug trial process. Its not like a few people are given some random drug and then they go invest in the company, declare it safe, and take their profits. They don't have the power to do that. In fact, they establish protocols under which every company operates. To get a drug on the fast track requires a certain set of criteria be met. They cannot just declare it so if they are holding stock. They can only change the protocol and make it the same for all companies.

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In 2003 alone, the industry spent nearly $116 million lobbying the government. That was the year that Congress passed, and President George W. Bush signed, the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which created a taxpayer-funded prescription drug benefit for senior citizens

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By adding the benefit to Medicare, the government program that provides health insurance to some 41 million people, the industry found a reliable purchaser for its products. Thanks to a provision in the law for which the industry lobbied, government programs like Medicare are barred from negotiating with companies for lower prices.

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Critics charge that the prescription drug benefit will transfer wealth from taxpayers, who provide the funding for Medicare, to pharmaceutical firms. According to a study done in October 2003 by Boston University professors Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, 61 percent of Medicare money spent on prescription drugs will become profit for drug companies. Drug-makers will receive $139 billion in increased profits over eight years, the study predicts. The Medicare prescription drug benefit starts in 2006.

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The U.S. government contributes more money to the development of new drugs—in the form of tax breaks and subsidies—than any other government. Of the 20 largest pharmaceutical corporations, nine are based in the United States. Yet drugs are more expensive in the United States than in any other part of the world, and global drug companies make the bulk of their profits in the United States.

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lobbying research
Pfizer $16.90 billion $7.68 billion
GlaxoSmithKline $12.93 billion $5.20 billion
Sanofi-Aventis $5.59 billion $9.26 billion
Johnson & Johnson $15.86 billion $5.20 billion
Merck $7.35 billion $4.01 billion
Novartis $8.87 billion $4.21 billion
AstraZeneca $7.84 billion $3.80 billion
Hoffman La Roche $7.24 billion $4.01 billion
Bristol-Myers Squibb $6.43 billion $2.50 billion
Wyeth $5.80 billion $2.46 billion
Abbott Labs $4.92 billion $1.70 billion

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Annually, the industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing as it spends on research and development, although drug companies report neither total precisely. Various news reports estimate that the industry spent anywhere between $30 billion to $60 billion on marketing in 2004.

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As the Center reported in January, the industry trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, hired a former U.S. ambassador to Canada, Gordon Giffin, and his top aide to lobby the Canadian government on the issue. The industry's pressure may be paying off. Last week, Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh announced that his government would ban the bulk export of prescription drugs and crack down on Internet pharmacies that sell drugs to Americans.

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Imagine what would happen if the billions spent on drug advertisement and lobbying went into real research towards AIDs.

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In May 2004, Pfizer subsidiary Warner-Lambert agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $430 million to settle all Justice Department charges related to the off-label marketing of its epilepsy drug Neurontin, which the company promoted as a treatment for everything from migraine and attention deficit disorder to drug-withdrawal seizures and bipolar disorder.

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argument synopsis so far for those of you who don't want to read: Clinton's appointed FDA commissioner makes protocol which regulates procedure of off-label "persuasion", litigation ensues and it is overturned by an appellate court under the guise of 1st amendment, so now doctors are given "incentives" (use your imagination) to prescribe designer drugs for everything from athletes foot to epileptic siezures.

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During McClellan's tenure as Commissioner of the FDA, the makers of Plan B emergency contraception applied for over-the-counter status. The application for OTC status was supported by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and other leading U.S. medical organizations.[1] On December 16, 2003, an advisory committee to the FDA recommended that Plan B be made available over the counter.

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in May 2004 the FDA rejected over-the-counter status for Plan B. Subsequently, Reuters reported that in a sworn statement in June 2006, Dr John Jenkins, director of the FDA's Office of New Drugs, stated under oath that he learned in early 2004 that then-FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan had decided against approval before the staff could complete their scientific analysis

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In a separate sworn deposition, Dr Florence Houn said she was also told in January by Deputy Commissioner Dr Janet Woodcock that Plan B needed to be rejected "to appease the administration's constituents" but that it could be approved later.

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argument cliff notes: Bush assigns a puppet as FDA commissioner to shut down Plan B which is given the green light for over the counter use by 5 respected medical organizations as well as two internal FDA committee's because Bush's constituents didn't like Plan B. So he takes the fall for Bush, is fired to save face for Bush. Fda remains a transparent organization in some peoples eyes.

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The next month, financial disclosure forms released by the Department of Health and Human Services showed that in 2004 either Dr. Crawford or his wife, Catherine, had sold shares in companies regulated by the agency when he was its deputy commissioner and acting commissioner. He has since joined a Washington lobbying firm, Policy Directions Inc.

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Before Dr. Crawford's confirmation, the secretary of health and human services, Michael O. Leavitt, promised that the F.D.A. would act on the Plan B application by September 2005, a promise that led two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Patty Murray of Washington, to relent in their efforts to delay the nomination. But after he was confirmed, Dr. Crawford announced an indefinite delay that has remained in effect.

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argument cliff notes: Bush assigns a new guy to FDA commissioner. That lasts 3 months. He has to face a grand jury regarding questionable actions and conversations regarding Plan B as well as financial ties (stock) to corporations he was presiding over as commissioner. He resigns, but not before he put Plan B on hold indefinitely

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"In 1959 Wallace and Tiernan put a new tranquilliser, Dornwal, on the market despite the strenuous objections of its own medical director. Other company experts warned that Dornwal could cause serious and possibly fatal blood damage. They were right. Wallace and Tiernan failed to send to the FDA reports of side-effects which induced nine cases of bone marrow disease and three deaths from using the drug (Johnson, 1976) [15a] ....

"One could list a number of similar types of cases. Johnson and Johnson's subsidiary, McNeil Laboratories, was denounced by the FDA for concealing information on side-effects of Flexin which according to Johnson (1976) included the drug being associated with 15 deaths from liver damage. Such more blatant cases are merely the tip of an iceberg of selective misinformation.

"The most dramatic recent case has been the disclosures in the British Parliament and US Congress that Eli Lilly and Co. knew of the dangers of Opren, an anti-arthritic drug associated with 74 deaths in Britain alone, 15 months before the drug was withdrawn (Sunday Times, 27 February 1983)....

"The problem is not restricted to Anglo-Saxon countries. In November 1982, a Japanese company, Nippon Chemiphar, admitted to presenting bogus data to the Japanese Government with its application to market a pain-killer and anti-inflammation drug under the brand name of Norvedan. The company submitted cooked up data to the Government in the name of Dr Harcio Sampei, chief of plastic surgery at Nippon University. The good doctor had accepted 2.4 million Yen in cash from the company in return for permission to use his name. More disturbing are similar allegations on another Nippon Chemiphar product. The company denies cooking data on this second product. But the worrying aspect of the second scandal is that a former company researcher claims to have submitted a written report alleging fraud in drug testing by Nippon Chemiphar to the Japanese Health and Welfare Ministry; Ministry officials, he alleges, chose to ignore the report (Japan Times, 23, 24, 25 November 1982)."

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Dude, I work with the FDA on a daily basis. I know exactly what they do. All pharmaceutical manufacturing and testing is highly regulated. As in, higher than anywhere else in the world. You can sit at your computer and say the FDA doesn't do anything but that simply doesn't make it true. The FDA is on site at almost every pharmaceutical company making sure that they follow strict protocols to the letter and if they don't, they can be severely punished. You just site articles from anti-drug websites about the beginning of the AIDs epidemic as if the sole purpose of the FDA was to psychically predict the beginning of a disease or a long-term complication from a drug.

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Dr Burzynski of Houston, Texas, has been harassed by the FDA for over a decade because of his pioneering and controversial use of a preparation he calls "antineoplastons" in the treatment of otherwise untreatable brain tumors.

In 1991 five experts from the National Cancer Institute visited Burzynski's clinic, reviewed the records of seven of Burzynski's patients with "incurable" brain tumors. In their report, they verified anti-cancer activity in all seven cases, as well as five complete remissions. In spite of the NCI's recommendation for further study and clinical trials, harassment of Burzynski and his patients and seizure of his clinical records and files continued.

"In 1983, FDA filed civil suit in federal court to stop Dr. Burzynski from manufacturing or treating patients with antineoplastons. In a motion dated May 2, 1983 and signed by Robert Spiller, the FDA's Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement, the FDA warned Federal Judge Gabrielle McDonald that the FDA would not take "no" for an answer." In spite of this threat, Judge McDonald specifically declined to prevent Dr. Burzynski from treating patients in Texas, because she recognized that Burzynski's intrastate operations were not proper areas of jurisdiction for the FDA. From the details of the FDA's legal strategy, it is clear that the FDA had been frustrated in its attempts to prove that Burzynski engaged in unauthorized interstate shipment of his experimental medicine, as this is the only means by which it could obtain jurisdiction to prosecute him. Multiple grand jury hearings failed to yield any indictments of Burzynski.

In an interview in January 1982, Dr. Richard J. Crout of the FDA, revealed the FDA's motive for targetting Dr. Burzynski for destruction: "I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances," declared Dr. Crout. The next year, the FDA began its vendetta against Burzynski, an individual with limited finances.

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1950's, Maine: Wilhelm Reich, M.D., in one of the most infamous cases of FDA thuggery, was railroaded through the courts for his unorthodox views on medicine, politics, and society in general. His books and research journals were incinerated. Dr. Reich died in prison and his coworker, Dr. Michael Silvert, committed suicide after being released from prison. The FDA harassed many associated with Reich, and carried out invasions of these individuals' homes without warrant or court order. Such actions were typical of the raids generally conducted during the McCarthy period. [are] [fre1] Reich himself was well aware of the mechanisms behind such abuses of power, as evidenced by his book, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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1950's, U.S.: Harry Hoxsey's herbal formulas for the treatment of cancer were targetted for obliteration by the FDA, after Hoxsey refused to sell his formula to Morris Fishbein, president of the AMA. The formulas were used in dozens of clinics across the USA during the 1950s.

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Dr. Royal Rife's methods for microscopically viewing viral activity within living cells may have yielded a major breakthrough in cancer treatment, yet before it could be thoroughly investigated, the AMA threatened and harassed physicians who dared explore the new methods. Some of these physicians died mysteriously. Rife died an embittered man in 1971.

Since Rife's death, many alternative health businesses have jumped on the bandwagon to promote Rife's suppressed techniques. However, many of them may be selling bogus imitations, discrediting Rife's work more effectively than any FDA harassment could possibly accomplish.

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1990: Max Gerson's dietary treatments for degenerative diseases were criminalized by the FDA just as he was publishing scientific evidence and clinical reports on their effectiveness in boosting immune system function.

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1987, Florida: The Life Extension Foundation was raided by armed FDA agents, who seized nutritional supplement supplies, files, and personal belongings. Lawsuits against the FDA are still pending.

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1990, California: The FDA raided and ransacked the pet food store of Sissy Harrington-McGill. FDA agents stated that her pet store literature claiming that vitamins would keep pets healthy was a violation of the Health Claims Law, which was never passed by Congress. Ms. Harrongton-McGill served 114 days in prison, after being tried and convicted by a judge without a jury trial, in spite of her request for a jury trial. Lawsuits have been filed against the FDA.

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1991, California: FDA agents raided NutriCology, a nutrition supplement company operated by Stephen Levine, Ph.D., a molecular geneticist from the UC Berkeley. Levine spent $500,000 to defend against three different FDA injunctions, all of which were thrown out of court.

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1992, Washington state: FDA agents raided and terrorized the medical clinic of Jonathan Wright, M.D. The FDA initiated the raid after a recent batch of contaminated B-vitamins was discovered in another state, yet Wright's clinic had no connection to the company making the contaminated vitamins and dis not use their products. In spite of this, the FDA agents removed most of the clinic's contents, meanwhile terrorizing patients and treating them like criminals. As of 1993, no clinic property has been returned, yet no charges against the clinic or any of its employees have been filed by the FDA.

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1992, California: David Halpern, several of his family members, and the presidents of three European vitamin companies are charged with 198 counts of conspiracy and smuggling for importing banned nutritional supplements that are freely available in Britain and Germany. The indictments carry a potential prison term of 990 years.

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1992, Texas: The FDA induced the Texas Department of Health and Texas Department of Food and Drug to raid over a dozen major health food stores. Over 250 products were seized from the shelves, including vitamin C, zinc, herbs, aloe vera, and flaxseed oil. Following a massive public outcry, FDA threatened health food store owners, "Don't talk to the press, or we'll come down on you twice as hard.". No charges were ever filed by the FDA, and no products were ever returned.

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1993, USA: Dozens of natural healing clinics, health food stores and natural product manufacturers throughout the U.S. were assaulted by combined forces from the FDA, DEA, IRS, Customs, and US Postal Service in commando-style SWAT raids. Stocks of vitamins and herbs were confiscated as well as bank accounts, automobiles, and computers. Especially of interest as a target of the raids were mailing lists of customers and clients. The Postal Service assisted in the actions by blocking all mail to some of the businesses, effectively preventing them from continuing any business and from conducting effective legal defense.

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Why don't you go around to some teaching hospitals and see some of the amazing cures and treatments currently being developed and tested to help millions suffering from horrible diseases?

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Quite a few of the drugs "discovered" by Big Pharma were with the help of the shaman of the rain forests etc. who know which herbs and plants are of benefit for what particular condition people have. They know this from generations of knowledge and practice passed on from their shaman ancestors. Just because they learned the benefits of whatever herb or plant from trial and error and don't know the chemical name of the active ingredient doesn't make the benefit any less real.

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One thing you have to consider, however, is that the FDA is an American entity. Science, and research however, are worldwide. Thus, if herbal remedies truly had a clear-cut benefit, they more than likely would be discovered. A country like China for example, would love nothing more than to cure brain cancer, win the noble prize and take credit for it.

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