One can't under-note (in light of the "herbs are dangerous" scare-mongering being pushed by the GovtMedia as a subset of the effort to bring alternative medicine under totalitarian- Federal control similar to prescription drugs) the following report from JAMA showing PRESCRIPTION DRUGS to be "the sixth, and perhaps even the fourth, most common cause of death" (Wash. Post) killing over 100,000 Americans per year!!!
Where (X = herbs/vitamins) and (Rx = prescription drugs): if X must be made less available if X may be dangerous, and if Rx is 100,000 times more dangerous than X, then surely Rx should be banned outright, but that's not the case, therefore the expressed concern for safety is a false front, a Big Lie.
>From the Journal of the American Medical Association website:
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/sci-news/1998/snr0415.htm
ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS MAY
CAUSE OVER 100,000 DEATHS AMONG
HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS EACH YEAR
Study suggests adverse drug reactions
are among the top causes of death in U.S.
CHICAGO - Adverse drug reactions (ADRs)
in U.S. hospitals may be responsible
for more than 100,000 deaths nationwide
each year, making it one of the leading
causes of death, according to an article
in the April 14 issue of The Journal of
American Medical Association (JAMA).
Bruce H. Pomeranz, M.D., Ph.D., and col-
leagues from the University of Toronto,
analyzed 39 studies of ADRs in the United
States to estimate the incidence of serious
and fatal adverse drug reactions in hospital
patients. To obtain overall incidence rates
of ADRs in hospitalized patients, the re-
searchers combined the incidence of ADRs
in the hospital and the incidence of ADRs
causing admission to the hospital.
On 04/15/98, The Washington Post reported:
PRESCRIBED DRUGS' TOLL IS AMONG DEADLIEST
By Rick Weiss
More than 2 million Americans become
seriously ill every year because of
toxic reactions to correctly prescribed
medicines taken properly, and 106,000
die from those reactions, a new study
concludes. That surprisingly high num-
ber makes drug side effects at least
the sixth, and perhaps even the fourth,
most common cause of death in this country.
The analysis, the largest and most
complete of its kind, suggests that
one in 15 hospital patients in the
United States can expect to suffer
from a serious reaction to prescription
or over-the-counter medicine, and about
5 percent of these will die as a result.
IAN: Important to note: the study seems only to have
included drugs prescribed to hospitalized patients,
yet I would expect that most prescription drugs are
prescribed to patients NOT hospitalized. If 106,000
hospitalized patients are killed by prescription
drugs, and if hospital prescriptions account for
(just a guess) 20% of all prescriptions, then there
could be upwards of 500,000 people dying every year
from prescription drugs (just a rough guestimate).
While hospital patients are more sick and thus more
inclined to die, out-patients are more inclinded to
drive cars and do other dangerous activity drugged.
Suffice it is to say that there should be more than
the cited 100,000 hospital-Rx-drug deaths in total.
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- the critics are raving -
"Shouldn't this be expunged?...[since]
it is spreading fear and suspicion of the
government." Lesly Sthal (CBS - 60 Minutes)
Call the police! Newsday reports that "another
site linked to Goddard's" is linked to another
site that "pictures a woman's bare derrierre."
BTW, I'm still (drool) looking for that site
On CNN, a Federal official said Goddard's
TWA 800 inquiry has caused "real damage."
ergo: stopping Goddard = damage control
GIVING THE BIG LIE A BLACK EYE WITH
THE FIST OF ANALYTICAL INQUIRY
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IAN GODDARD'S ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN JOURNAL
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