{"id":15520,"date":"2017-03-18T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T01:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15520"},"modified":"2024-07-01T23:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:37:58","slug":"prescription-drugs-are-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15520","title":{"rendered":"Prescription Drugs Are Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEvery once in a while, an analysis that explodes confidence in the medical system surfaces.
\nIt might appear as a newspaper article, or a review published in a medical journal.
\nIts fate is always the same. It sinks like a stone in a dark lake. As if it never happened.
\nMonths or years later, people who read the original article begin to doubt their own memory. \u201cDid I really read that? If I had, surely other articles would have been written. There would have been uproar\u2026\u201d
\nNo. It\u2019s par for the press to bury uncomfortable stories and give them a quick death. It\u2019s another form of censorship.
\nFor example:
\nThe citation is: BMJ June 7, 2012 (BMJ 2012;344:e3989) \u201cAnticoagulants cause the most serious adverse events, finds US analysis.\u201d Author, Jeanne Lenzer.
\nLenzer refers to a report by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices: \u201cIt calculated that in 2011 prescription drugs were associated with two to four million people in the US experiencing \u2018serious, disabling, or fatal injuries, including 128,000 deaths.\u2019\u201d
\nThe report called this \u201cone of the most significant perils to humans resulting from human activity.\u201d
\nAnd here is the final dagger. The report was compiled by outside researchers who went into the FDA\u2019s own database of \u201cserious adverse [medical-drug] events.\u201d
\nTherefore, to say the FDA isn\u2019t aware of this finding would be absurd. The FDA knows. The FDA knows and it isn\u2019t saying anything about it, because THE FDA CERTIFIES, AS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE, ALL THE DRUGS THAT ARE ROUTINELY MAIMING AND KILLING AMERICANS.
\nAnd here is another \u201cstone that sank in the lake\u201d I just came across. This one is from the June 27th, 2014, issue of the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics newsletter, by Donald Light, \u201cNew Prescription Drugs: A Major Health Risk With Few Offsetting Advantages\u201d:
\n\u201cFew know that systematic reviews of hospital charts found that even properly prescribed drugs (aside from misprescribing, overdosing, or self-prescribing) cause about 1.9 million hospitalizations a year. Another 840,000 hospitalized patients are given drugs that cause serious adverse reactions for a total of 2.74 million serious adverse drug reactions. About 128,000 people die [per year] from drugs prescribed to them. This makes prescription drugs a major health risk, ranking 4th with stroke as a leading cause of death. The European Commission estimates that adverse reactions from prescription drugs cause 200,000 deaths; so together, about 328,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe die from prescription drugs each year. The FDA does not acknowledge these facts and instead gathers a small fraction of the cases.\u201d
\nAny sane person would expect a massive reaction to these stories. Congressional probes, court cases, arrests and prosecutions of FDA officials and pharmaceutical executives and researchers, mass firings of editors at medical journals who publish studies praising the killer drugs.
\nBut no. It doesn\u2019t happen.
\nEssentially, these criminals are left alone, and they continue in their work. They\u2019re like war criminals who have let off the hook for their crimes against humanity.
\nAnd these days, the elite media outlets who are crowing about \u201cfake news\u201d are not put under the spotlight for their decades of inattention to medical murder.
\nIn their silence, they enable medical murder.
\nhttps:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/another-devastating-revelation-on-killer-medical-drugs-is-buried\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while, an analysis that explodes confidence in the medical system surfaces. It might appear as a newspaper article, or a review published in a medical journal. Its fate is always the same. It sinks like a stone in a dark lake. As if it never happened. Months or years later, people … <\/p>\n

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