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FDA secret X files !!!
Expedientes Secretos X de la FDA !!!
Data-Medicos
Dermagic/Express No. 5-(X-7)
04 Junio 2.003 / 04 June 2.003
EDITORIAL ESPAÑOL
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Hace algun tiempo a traves del DERMAGIC, denuncie algunas situaciones que me
parecieron un poco extrañas tales como:
1.) La corrupcion de los Laboratorios en la FDA para liberar sus medicinas al
mercado..
2.) La aprobacion de medicamentos despues de pagos multimillonarios
3.) La eliminacion de medicamentos despues de grandes presiones de la Sociedad.
4.) La permanencia en el mercado de drogas aunque se ha probado que son dañinas
para la salud.
El gran responsable: la FDA
Lea este documento y conocera EL EXPEDIENTE SECRETO de LA FDA,,, CORRUPCION ???
o interes COMERCIAL !!!
Saludos a todos
Dr. Jose Lapenta R
ENGLISH EDITORIAL
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Some time ago through the DERMAGIC, denounce some situations
that me
they seemed a little strange such as:
1.) The corruption of the Laboratories in the FDA to liberate their medicines to
the market
2.) The approval of medications after multimillionaire payments
3.) The elimination of medications after big pressures of the Society.
4.) The permanency in the market of drugs although it has been proven that they
are harmful for the health.
The great one responsible: the FDA
do read this document and you will know THE SECRET FILE of THE
FDA, CORRUPTION??? or COMMERCIAL interest!!!
Greetings to all
Dr. José Lapenta R
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES /
REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS
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1.) FDA Attacks The Internet
FDA seeks to destroy Alternative Health Web Sites
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1.) FDA Attacks The Internet
FDA seeks to destroy Alternative Health Web Sites
Source: http://www.lef.org/
By William Faloon
The FDA's history is one of incompetence, fraud, deceit and the continuous
striving for more power. Over the past 25 years, the Food and Drug
Administration has sought to gain authoritarian control that Congress never
intended it to have. In every attempt to seize this kind of power, the FDA has
been beaten back by a swell of public protest.
The FDA has just launched a disinformation campaign to deceive Congress into
believing that the agency needs to "protect" the public from health information
on the Internet. The FDA is seeking ten million tax dollars a year to attack
alternative health and pharmacy web sites. If the FDA convinces Congress to give
it the power and money to do this, American consumers will be denied access to
innovative therapies, and will be forced to pay a good deal more for the
nutrient and drug therapies the FDA allows them to buy over the Internet.
One of the FDA's proposals is to be able to fine Internet pharmacies $500,000
every time they dispense a drug without a prescription authorized by the agency.
With this kind of excessive fining power, the FDA will be able to bankrupt any
online pharmacy it targets. To make it easy for them to shut down large numbers
of web sites, the FDA wants the power to issue subpoenas without first obtaining
a court order, a totalitarian tactic the American public revolted against when
the agency proposed it in 1990. Finally, the FDA says it wants to set up "a
rapid response team" to identify, investigate, and prosecute web sites. In other
words, the FDA is seeking to establish an army of cyberspace storm-troopers to
enable it to shut down large numbers of web sites quickly.
The alleged purpose of these new powers is to "target and punish those who
engage in illegal drug sales over the Internet." This may sound reasonable to
the average person, but as members of The Life Extension Foundation well know,
the FDA's history is one of ineptitude and corruption that has caused millions
of Americans to suffer and die needlessly. In 1994, the FDA Museum was
established to document FDA malfeasance, and show that the agency hasn't the
scientific legitimacy to be allowed to police the healthcare of the American
people.
A flagrant example of FDA deception can be found in their current attempt to
control the Internet. The FDA has identified one person who died after obtaining
Viagra from a Web pharmacy without a prescription. The FDA is using this one
death as an example of why the FDA needs to impose dictatorial power over all
health Web sites. One problem with this position is that, as of November 1998,
at least 130 Americans died from taking Viagra legally prescribed by their
doctors. (The total number of Viagra-related deaths for 1999 has not yet been
calculated.) The FDA approved Viagra as being safe, even though many Americans
have died when the drug has been legally prescribed. The FDA failed to detect
this lethal side effect of Viagra, yet it is now seeking gestapo-like power to
attack any Internet health company it wishes to, without due process. It's time
for the public to speak up again to let Congress know that this kind of FDA
tyranny will not be tolerated by tax payers.
Why Internet Regulation is Doomed to Fail
The powers the FDA is seeking are unconstitutional, and the agency has neither
the competence nor the integrity to police the Internet, but even if it did, it
would be impractical for the agency to do so. There are currently an estimated
8,000 health sites on the Internet. If Congress gives the FDA $10 million a year,
the best the agency could do is shut down a couple of hundred sites a year.
Within a few years, the FDA would create a litigation monster whose appetite
would far exceed their $10 million annual budget. The FDA would be bogged down
in a quagmire of judicial proceedings, while thousands of new health Web sites
would be springing up that the agency would be at an utter loss to control. The
end result of the FDA's war against the free flow of information on the Internet
would be tens of millions of tax dollars wasted, with less so-called consumer "protection"
than exists today.
The FDA Already Has The Legal Power It Needs
The charade the FDA is parading before Congress is that they need more money and
stricter laws to regulate e-commerce. The facts are that the FDA already has the
regulatory structure to "protect" the consumer on the Internet. Much of what the
FDA wants is already covered by existing Federal and State law, but the agency
is seeking to add another bureaucratic layer of law and money to suppress the
dissemination of health information.
An Alternative Proposal
The FDA has its own Web site (http://www.fda.gov/) For a fraction of the cost of
becoming the health police of the Internet police, the agency could post its own
evaluation of alternative health Web sites that it thought were promoting
fraudulent or dangerous products. Americans would then be free to make their own
decisions about whether to believe what the FDA says about health web sites.
However, the FDA has no interest in trying to persuade Americans with evidence.
It wants (and has always wanted) authoritarian powers and as much money as
possible from Congress because it is a political organization rather than a
scientific one. As a result, FDA suppression of information has been,
historically, the leading cause of death in the United States, while adverse
reactions to FDA approved drugs is currently the 4th-to-6th leading cause of
death. Clearly, the FDA lacks the constitutional authority, the competence, the
integrity or the scientific credibility to be given additional power and money
to police the Internet.
A History of Victories Over the FDA
The Federal Courts, Congress and the public have dealt the FDA severe losses
over the past 25 years.
The first citizens' victory occurred in the 1970's when the FDA tried to turn
vitamin supplements into prescription drugs. An uproar from the public resulted
in Congress unanimously rejecting FDA's brazen arguments that vitamins are so "dangerous"
that they should only be prescribed by doctors. This blatant power grab came at
a time when the vast majority of doctors had little or no knowledge of the
health benefits of vitamins.
In 1990, the FDA tried to have a law passed that would have enabled the agency
to make summary seizures of products from companies, and institute wire taps
without a court warrant. The public again defended the Bill of Rights by
inundating Congress with so much mail that the FDA's proposed law was abandoned.
In 1993, the FDA stated that it wanted to classify all amino acids and many
minerals as prescription drugs. The public expressed such a high degree of
outrage over the FDA's draconian proposition, that Congress passed the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (in 1994) that significantly limited the
FDA's authority to regulate dietary supplements.
Since 1994, the FDA has circumvented the will of the people and Congress by
seeking to censor what the public is allowed to hear about supplements and drugs.
The FDA has been defeated repeatedly in the counts, and has been forced to
retreat because of an onslaught of public opposition to all forms of censorship
the agency has proposed.
Orwellian Computer Robots
A nightmare scenario sometimes portrayed in science fiction novels involves a
totalitarian government using advanced computers to monitor the activities of
citizens. In these novels, people who don't behave according to government
standards are targeted for persecution or summary elimination.
The Orwellian prophesy is becoming reality as the FDA is proposing to spend a
million dollars a year on artificial intelligence computer robots that would
scan the Internet for phrases such as "prevents cancer" and "prescription drug"
so the FDA could "swiftly gather the information needed to prosecute."
The new law the FDA is proposing would mandate that on-line pharmacies first
receive FDA-approval to operate. Pharmacies are currently regulated by the
States, but the FDA is seeking to impose a new Federal bureaucratic layer that
will greatly increase the cost of purchasing products on the Internet.
The FDA needs to convince Congress that American citizens should be subjected to
Orwellian investigative tactics and that tax payer dollars should be
appropriated to pay for these Web robots to assist the FDA in detecting words it
does not want Americans to read.
American citizens who cherish their Constitutional rights against undue
government intrusion should contact their members of Congress and demand that
the FDA not be given the money, nor the legal authority to control the Internet.
This is more than just a health freedom issue. The FDA's Orwellian proposals are
unprecedented and would create lead to a serious breakdown of our civil
liberties if enacted into law.
Just Tell Congress To Say "No" to The FDA
The FDA is using the free-flowing popularity of the Internet in a ploy to
deceive Congress into appropriating ten million tax dollars a year to fund an
unconstitutional witch hunt against free speech. The new powers the FDA is
seeking are blatantly un-American and resemble the kinds of police-state tactics
employed by totalitarian regimes such as communist China.
The FDA's latest fabrication will fail if Americans tell their Congressional
representatives to say NO to any new proposal or law that would give the FDA
more power or money. Included in this message is a letter that can be sent to
Congress. To obtain the name, e-mail address, voice phone number, and fax number
of your member of Congress, check http://www.house.gov/ or phone the
Congressional switchboard at 1-202-224-3121.
Note: the House Directory at http://www.house.gov/ was not working despite
repeated attempts between 7:30 and 8:00 pm EST 1/5/00 but you can find both
e-mail and mailing information for your Representative by selecting "Member
Offices."
We suggest that you also send a copy of this
letter to:
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
You can E-mail the President at this White House page:
www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_President.html
You can access the Foundation's Website at http://www.lef.org/ to obtain
additional
information about the FDA's track record of unlawfully suppressing life
saving information.
We encourage Foundation members to defend the Constitution against the FDA's
latest attempt to gain repressive power over the individual's right to choose.
Please send the following letter (and/or your own letter) to your Congressional
representative:
A Letter to Your Congressional Representative
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DATA-MEDICOS/DERMAGIC-EXPRESS No 5-(X-7) 04/01/2.003 DR. JOSE
LAPENTA R.
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