Comments on: Individual Choice and Vioxx http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/individual_choi.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: michael hammond http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/individual_choi.html/comment-page-1#comment-588 michael hammond Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:20:46 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/individual_choi.html#comment-588 <p>The pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars drugging school children and this is a form of genocide: condemning millions of young lives to a drug addicted future. They employ “experts” and lobbyist and hire ex FDA personnel and retired congressman to get pro-drug legislation passed. Newspapers and magazines receive billions of dollars a year in advertising, and investment firms make big bucks touting the latest snake oil; so it would be a rare article indeed that went against Big Pharma. The industry is motivated by the bottom line and shareholders not Science. A Google search of Ritalin and Cocaine, Prozac, chemical imbalance, school shootings, will show even the most skeptical that something is horribly wrong when 6 million school children ( plans are in place to increase this by 40% each year) are on anti-depressant drugs prescribed to handle “disorders” created to sell the drugs. Now after the Texas Vioxx decision Big Pharma's stooges are flooding their editorial outlets ( USA Today, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal) with demands that the government protect the drug companies. Michael</p> <p>PS The decision by the Texas jury was rendered because the defendant couldn’t explain its faulty “science” to the common man. Something that contains lies is very hard to explain as it gets very complicated whereas that which is true is simple and easy to explain. <br /> </p> The pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars drugging school children and this is a form of genocide: condemning millions of young lives to a drug addicted future. They employ “experts” and lobbyist and hire ex FDA personnel and retired congressman to get pro-drug legislation passed. Newspapers and magazines receive billions of dollars a year in advertising, and investment firms make big bucks touting the latest snake oil; so it would be a rare article indeed that went against Big Pharma. The industry is motivated by the bottom line and shareholders not Science. A Google search of Ritalin and Cocaine, Prozac, chemical imbalance, school shootings, will show even the most skeptical that something is horribly wrong when 6 million school children ( plans are in place to increase this by 40% each year) are on anti-depressant drugs prescribed to handle “disorders” created to sell the drugs. Now after the Texas Vioxx decision Big Pharma’s stooges are flooding their editorial outlets ( USA Today, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal) with demands that the government protect the drug companies. Michael

PS The decision by the Texas jury was rendered because the defendant couldn’t explain its faulty “science” to the common man. Something that contains lies is very hard to explain as it gets very complicated whereas that which is true is simple and easy to explain.

]]> By: dearieme http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/individual_choi.html/comment-page-1#comment-587 dearieme Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:45:21 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/individual_choi.html#comment-587 <p>Wouldn't a useful advance be to categorise all drugs into three groups like traffic lights - green, amber, red. Green would correspond to the current levels of FDA approval, amber would mean that there were known bad side-effects like those you mention, but that the patient can make his own informed choice, and red would mean "on your own head be it".</p> Wouldn’t a useful advance be to categorise all drugs into three groups like traffic lights – green, amber, red. Green would correspond to the current levels of FDA approval, amber would mean that there were known bad side-effects like those you mention, but that the patient can make his own informed choice, and red would mean “on your own head be it”.

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