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Corruption in up of Merck consultants. is prescribed statin drugs doesn’t drop dead
Corruption in the FDA has reached the point shortly after starting them. The pharmaceutical
the FDA has where scientists who work for the FDA have companies know that Americans haven’t been
reached the written a letter to President Obama complaining dumbed down enough (yet) to fail to notice that
point where about it. Part of that letter is reproduced in the particular side effect, so the drug is sufficiently
FDA scientists book. There has been no response to that letter diluted so that most victims won’t start noticing
from either the FDA or the Obama administra-
severe symptoms for at least a few years. The
have written a tion. FDA-approved drugs kill one hundred thou- average person is not very good at connecting
letter to sand Americans and generate over two million cause and effect when the two are separated by
President adverse drug reactions per year. FDA-approved years. It’s a great racket.
The authors put forward theories concerning
drugs are the fourth-leading cause of death in the
Obama U.S. They don’t even try to hide that informa- the real causes of cancer and heart attacks. I don’t
complaining tion. It’s on their website. If you are keeping up know for sure whether they are right but they are

about it. with current events you know the FDA does not interesting. Even though most of our readers are
recognize your right to choose your own food familiar with the general subject, this book is
and local, small farm food options are slowly but very interesting and well done. Their devastating
surely being outlawed. Here’s a sobering thought: analysis of how statins work makes it clear that
if this trend continues you will have no choice but the end result can’t be good even when short term
to patronize the factory food and factory medical results look promising.
system where the only thing between you and The Japanese researcher Dr. Akira Endo is
disaster is the competence and integrity of the credited with finding the first statin. When asked
FDA. why he wouldn’t take it for his own high choles-
In unrelated news, we’re all going to die one terol, he answered with an inscrutable Japanese
day. proverb, “The indigo dyer wears white trousers.”
I don’t seriously believe that this is how it To make sense of that you need to know indigo
will ultimately play out, but it could if we let it dye is toxic. Review by Tim Boyd
happen. One might wonder why everyone who

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