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No, I am not. Selling medical snake oil and claiming it can cure disease is fraud.
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No one here ever said they supported fraud, but in a free country you should be allowed to skip the vaccine and go with alternative medicine if you like. The FDA has a history of quashing cheap effective medicines that might harm the profits of big pharma and vaccine producers.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Colorado
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Do you believe that only pharmaceutical drugs can cure disease, as the FDA defines a cure? |
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I believe that drugs should undergo proper clinical trials.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Colorado
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What if it's not a drug? What if it's a food, supplement, or herb?
Did you know that the FDA says that ONLY A DRUG can treat, prevent, or cure a disease. That means, according to the FDA, vitamin C cannot treat scurvy, Vitamin D won't prevent rickets, and iodine has no relation to goiters. Make sense? |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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In fact, this type of inappropriate bullying prompted me to write my "representatives" in D.C. to complain again about the FDA, Codex, Obama's health-"care", etc. Keep on truckin' .
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If you want to help stop this crap and force big pharma to compete on even ground with alternative medicine, support Ron Paul's 3 health bills:
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Do we really have to pass bills in order to repeal previous bills? Well whatever it takes I guess, but there seems to be this trend of writing laws that protect us from previous laws. So when the number of “anti-law-laws” equals the number of laws, THEN will we have freedom from government tyranny? (When some smart guy in the future will point out: “Instead of keeping all these billion pages of laws and these billion pages of anti-law-laws, why don’t we just call it even and burn them all?”) |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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My biggest beef against Weil in this instance is his suck-up to the Feds in his last line on his website response
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART03081...y-OCT2009.html to the warning letter: “I fully support the FDA/FTC task force in its efforts.” Man, that stinks of just trying to appease the gods! |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bernanke's Helicopter :-)
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I can agree with the spirit of EndDaFed's argument in that, yes, drugs should undergo clinical trials, etc., because we all want things that are supposedly safe and effective.
However, I also think anybody should be allowed to sell anything in a real free society, without threat of violence or incarceration. As others have said, buyer beware. We all make choices, and we all deal with the consequences. Nothing wrong with 'natural' remedies, and such, but people should be wary of anybody (individual or corporation) making claims, scientific or otherwise. Use your judgment. If people want some kind of regulatory agency, it should be instituted as local as possible, and if the desire is to see federal legislation, it should be done as an ammendment to the constitution (if it's that big a deal to people). |
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