by Jon RappoportMarch 3, 2013In my previous article, I examined the silence of the lambs (media) concerning the collusion between Monsanto and the FDA.
In the case of medical care in America, that purposeful
silence reigns supreme as well.By the most conservative estimate,
researched and published by mainstream medical sources, the US medical system kills 225,000 people each year. That’s 2.25 MILLION deaths
per decade.You’d think such a mind-boggling fact would rate a
relentless series of page-one stories in the press, along with top-story
status on the network evening news.But no. It’s wall-to-wall
silence.Why? We can list the usual reasons, the medical/pharmaceutical
advertising dollars spent on television and in newspapers being the most
obvious reason.We have the reality that, of those 225,000 annual
deaths, 106,000 occur as a direct effect of pharmaceutical drugs. The
FDA is the single government agency tasked with certifying all medicines
as safe and effective before they’re released for public use. Any
exposure of the medical death statistics would automatically indict the
FDA. Major media won’t take on the FDA at that level.One of the many
truths which would come to light in the event that the press did attack
the FDA full-on? The FDA spends an inordinate amount of time, energy,
and money going after the nutritional supplement industry, which causes
virtually no deaths in any year or decade.The public would of course
discover that, by certifying medical drugs
as safe and effective, drugs that kill, like clockwork, 106,000 people a
year, the FDA is colluding with, and serving, Big Pharma.You can’t
possibly approve so many drugs that wreak so much human destruction
through mere incompetence. Apologists for the FDA might like to think
so, but they are terribly, terribly wrong. They are whistling in the
dark, trusting “science” as our guide.Since I’ve been reporting these
medically-caused death figures—I started 12 years ago—people have told
me, “This is impossible. If it were true, the media would be reporting
it.”That argument is upside down. The statistics are real and true. In
fact, they are very low estimates. Therefore, the press is colluding to
keep them well under the radar.The mainstream press
is built to be able to maintain silence on issues such as
this. It’s part of their job. Although many reporters and editors are
simply ignorant and clueless, at the highest levels of media we are
looking at sheer manipulation. We are looking at the crime of accessory
to murder.I don’t say murder in any non-literal way. It’s murder
because, when you know the facts, when you know what a huge government
institution (FDA) is doing to the population, and when that institution
itself is well aware of its lethal impact on the public and does nothing
about it, year after year, decade after decade, it’s FDA murder and
it’s media’s accessory to murder.It’s not merely negligent homicide.
There is no negligence here, any more than there would be if you took a
loaded gun out into the street and started firing randomly at crowds of
people.Underneath it all, the press maintains silence because they are
not permitted to hammer a huge fracture in what is called “the public trust.”And
what is the public trust? It’s the false illusion that basically things
are all right. That’s the simplest way to say it. Things are all
right.They’re especially all right when it comes to the medical
profession. Doctors are modern priests in white coats.Bur the priests
are the ones who are prescribing the drugs that are killing people. If
the extent of their crimes were made known, trust would evaporate in
seconds. And not just trust in the medical profession. Trust, or the
lack of it, is contagious. It spreads to other areas quickly.”Well, if
they’re lying abut this, and killing people, then who else is lying and
killing?”"We know that people die in wars. But the doctors are supposed
to be saving lives. They’re not supposed to be giving people drugs that
kill them at the rate of 106,000 a year, every year.”The press and the
people who own media companies are aware they are guardians of the
public trust. However, that has nothing to do with telling the truth.
The press is guarding the illusion of truth. That’s how they interpret
their mandate.Nowhere is this perversion more clear than in the medical
arena.As I do every so often, I’m presenting my interview with the late
Dr. Barbara Starfield, who for many years was a revered public health authority at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
She was the researcher who exposed the truth about medically caused
death in America.Her review, “Is US Health really the best in the
world?”, was published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association on July 26, 2000.It presented three key facts. Every year,
the US medical system kills 225,000 people. 106,000 die from the direct
effects of FDA-approved medical drugs. 119,000 die from the effects of
treatment in hospitals.Soon after her review was published, it gained
some media attention. Not headline attention, but the press carried the
story. Then, like a report of a car crash or a storm, Starfield’s
revelation disappeared, vanished without a trace.In other articles, I’ve
made it clear that Starfield’s journal paper is confirmed by other
sources. In fact, on a page of the FDA’s own web site, it is admitted
that 100,000 people die every year in America from the effects of
pharmaceutical drugs. However, as in the case of every psychotic
criminal, the FDA takes no responsibility.Here are excerpts from my
interview with Dr. Barbara Starfield: What has been the level and tenor
of the response to your findings, since 2000?
The
American public appears to have been hoodwinked into believing that
more interventions lead to better health, and most people that I meet
are completely unaware that the US does not have the ‘best health in the
world’.
in
the medical research community, have your medically-caused mortality
statistics been debated, or have these figures been accepted, albeit
with some degree of shame?
The
findings have been accepted by those who study them. There has been
only one detractor, a former medical school dean, who has received a lot
of attention for claiming that the US health system is the best there
is and we need more of it. He has a vested interest in medical schools
and teaching hospitals (they are his constituency).
Have health agencies of the federal government consulted
with you on ways to mitigate the [devastating] effects of the US medical
system?
NO.
Since the FDA approves every medical drug given to the
American people, and certifies it as safe and effective, how can that
agency remain calm about the fact that these medicines are causing
106,000 deaths per year?
Even
though there will always be adverse events that cannot be anticipated,
the fact is that more and more unsafe drugs are being approved for use.
Many people attribute that to the fact that the pharmaceutical industry
is (for the past ten years or so) required to pay the FDA for reviews
[of its new drugs]—which puts the FDA into an untenable position of
working for the industry it is regulating. There is a large literature
on this.
Many
persons and organizations within the medical system contribute to the
annual death totals of patients, and media silence and public ignorance
are certainly major factors, but the FDA is the assigned gatekeeper,
when it comes to the safety of medical drugs.The buck stops there. If
those drugs the FDA is certifying as safe are killing, like clockwork,
106,000 people a year, the Agency must be held accountable. The American
people must understand that.For the other 119,000 people killed every
year as a result of hospital treatment, this horror has to be laid at
the doors of those institutions. Further, to the degree that hospitals
are regulated and financed by state and federal governments, the
relevant health agencies assume culpability.It is astounding, as well,
that the US Department of Justice has failed to weigh in on Starfield’s
findings. If 225,000 medically caused deaths per year is not a crime by
the Dept. of Justice’s standards, then what is?To my knowledge, not one
person in America has been fired from a job or even censured as result
of these medically caused deaths. Dr. Starfield’s findings have been
available for 12 years
She has changed the perception of the
medical landscape forever. In a half-sane nation, she would be accorded
a degree of recognition that would, by comparison, make the
considerable list of her awards pale. And significant and swift action
would have been taken to punish the perpetrators of these crimes and
reform the system from its foundations.The
pharmaceutical giants stand back and carve up the populace into
“promising markets.” They seek new disease labels and new profits from
more and more toxic drugs. They do whatever they can—legally or
illegally—to influence doctors in their prescribing habits. Many studies
which show the drugs are dangerous are buried. FDA panels are filled
with doctors who have drug-company ties. Legislators are incessantly
lobbied and supported with Pharma campaign monies. Nutrition,
the cornerstone of good health, is ignored or devalued by most
physicians. Meanwhile, the FDA continues to attack nutritional
supplements, even though the overall safety record of these nutrients is
excellent, whereas, once again, the medical drugs the FDA certifies as
safe are killing 106,000 Americans per year.Physicians
are trained to pay exclusive homage to peer-reviewed published drug
studies. These doctors unfailingly ignore the fact that, if medical
drugs are killing a million Americans per decade, the studies on which
those drugs are based must be fraudulent. In other words, the whole
literature is suspect, unreliable, and impenetrable.
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