FDA regulation is so insane, it wouldn’t even approve aspirin today, if aspirin weren’t already available. The FDA also engages in censorship.

The ISIL has put out this brocure on how destructive the FDA is, and this brocure on how government involvement in healthcare has caused costs to skyrocket.

On pages 82 through 91 of his new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, Dr. Ron Paul also gives a focus on our dire need to deregulate healthcare in America.

Finally, I encourage you to watch this ABC news special by John Stossel.

Those who wish to keep around—or even increase—the deadly government regulations in our healthcare system are, simply put, extremists. The FDA is certainly a despicable enemy to those who care about people’s health and well-being.

You are a libertarian lightweight, and are “long-winded” on policy prescriptions and “short-winded” on fundamentals.

“Mary doesn’t really have a coherently thought out plan about how a privately-oriented scheme would work.”

Anybody who thinks they KNOW how the market will play out is delusional, other than that the market process will honor the choices that people want to make much better.

He described a press conference at which an FDA official announced that the agency had approved a new drug that would save 14,000 lives that year. Stossel noted that the drug had been in the agency’s pipeline for a long time, and pointed out the relevant question that none of the assembled reporters bothered to ask the FDA spokesperson, because, he said, they weren’t used to thinking that way:

If this drug will save 14,000 lives this year, then didn’t you kill 14,000 people last year by not approving it a year ago?

Mary Ruwart is right, and it is definitely past time to abolish the FDA. “Democratic Republican,” I’m sure your intentions are good, but it is elitist and condescending to ordinary people to insist that the federal government should treat adults like children and tell them what they can and can’t put into their own bodies.

I highly doubt that she would recommend untried and potentially dangerous therapies, but certainly she understands that these choices are best left to individuals, especially those who run out of options if they are in a likely terminal state.

I highly doubt that she would recommend untried and potentially dangerous therapies, but certainly she understands that these choices are best left to individuals, especially those who run out of options if they are in a likely terminal state.

Slight follow-up question to last night

Are there any alternative medicines that Ruwart would not trust? Or is she completely willing to let the market decide on all modalities? Second, are there any allopathic protocols (vaccines come immediately to mind) that Ruwart would still consider mandatory?Third, does she support food choice as well (permittting sale of raw dairy, etc)? I know RP won over a lot in the crunchy community for his legislation concerning raw milk (to fill people in here, there are some people who say that pasteurization of milk causes a lot of trouble and that milk fever (brucellosis) is preventable. On the latter point I absolutely agree… technology has advanced and you can now get snap tests for all the pathogens cows can carry. A farmer can, with regular testing, ensure his cows are healthy and have the lab results to back him up.. This technology did not exist when pasteurization became required. It may have been realistic then but it isn’t now)

It’s truly an insane world when a human being, because they’ve been attuned to Reiki energy, is considered a “medical device” by the FDA (and we are, honest) and because we haven’t gone through our “safety trials” we’re “unsafe”. Mind, we’re talking about an energy therapy that simply cannot harm. It’s benign. So the FDA war on Alternatives is a very personal thing indeed, especially since the Reiki attunement is permanent. There is no way I could “remove” the illegal aspect of myself in order to “come into compliance”.

Although, I am trying to picture the reaction of my kith-friend and Texian, who is even more rabidly against allopathic medicine than I am. Mary, you’ve got a bit of an uphill road to travel there. I do think there’s a lot of alternative folks out there who will have difficulty with your credentials when they learn you worked for U*J***. It’s not quite the cussword that M**** is, but it’s up there. I’d definitely consider working with Dr. Paul to win over Mercola—do that, and your road will be smoother.

She needs more than these. Hopefully ther media will follow it up and schedule quality interviews with her, as they should.

She also did a study of the FDA called DEADLY SECRETS that provided straightforward evidence that the FDA killed 4, 700,000 people from 1962-1999 simply with the approval time delays on drugs that were eventually approved as lifesavers, while generously preventing, at most, around 70,000 deadly reactions. Those are pretty lousy odds.

Somebody quipped that the leading cause of death in this country is the FDA, and I am inclined not to think of it as a quip.