No one went to prison for what the Centers for Disease Control did to Americans of some African ancestry with the Tuskegee experiments. Medicine in USA is wide open for charlatans, scam artists, snake oil salesmen, etc, because we have foolishly replaced caveat emptor with an FDA and a CDC.
Today it is much worse than in the 1970s, when the CDC was running the Tuskegee experiments. See how "consultants" create panic for a medicine, and then clean up when congress pays off big time big pharma.
Never mind there is already an effective, cheap, plentiful cure for anthrax called a bacteriophage. Problem is, you cannot patent a bacteriophage (a virus that eats anthrax and is found naturally in pond scum, etc.) If you cannot patent it, it cannot be monopolized, so you cannot rip taxpayers and consumers off at the point of a gun, the operative heart of "intellectual" "property" "rights."
Think in terms of doctors who still use maggots to clean up a nasty wound, since it is faster, cleaner than drugs and devoid of side effects. And for a perfect example of USA medicine in practice, let's listen to a doctor who uses maggots:
And never mind, like the cure for syphilis denied the victims of the CDC experiments of the 1970s, we've known about bacteriophages for a very long time. Google bacteriophage and anthrax. Here is a study from the 1960s. Note the Slavic surnames. Under Communism, there are no "intellectual" "property" "rights." There is no capitalist abuse of consumers. (There's communist abuse, but hey, that's for another day.) So with no need to play the patent game, bacteriophages, a cheap, effective, plentiful antidote to anthrax was developed.
Slate magazine did an article on Georgian cures -
And note it fights off common infections like staph. Staph? You mean, like MRSA. That deep-secret #1 killer of hospital patients in USA, who die horrible deaths? The disease in USA we have such a hard time trying to figure out a cure? And gee whiz, in USA we just can't find a good one? That disease, that staph? And while we let people suffer with MRSA, Tuskegee style, in USA, there is a cure awaiting, over the counter, in Georgia (the Caucasian country, not the state).
In communist Russia, good medicine cold be had. In capitalist USA, you will go to prison after being swat-teamed, if you survive that.
Although the Soviets, (Georgians today) have had the anthrax cure all along, A Rockefeller outfit "discovered" the cure in 2002. The point is, all of the shenanigans outlined in the LA Times story above occurred well after 2002. Like the Tuskegee experiments, we are not told there is a cure when we are being abused by the government medicine authorities.
There was once a huge and powerful government agency called the (ICC) Interstate Commerce Commission. It was created in 1887. By the 1970s it was probably the most powerful government agency, controlling the movement of anything. My favorite president, Jimmy Carter, set in motion deregulation that eventually led to its elimination. It is gone now. After it disappeared there was tremendous improvement in transportation in USA, we got more better cheaper faster. President Reagan enjoyed the delayed benefit from President Carter's action, and Reagan got the credit. (Most people who adore Reagan do not realize the reason they do is for the benefits Carter bestowed on Reagan.)
Getting rid of the ICC brought tremendous benefits to USA. If we were to deregulate medicine, and get rid of the FDA, we'd see a comparable economic recovery and a renaissance in medicine. We could replace all of the CDC functions with a good website, let google handle it. But we live in a capitalist regime right now, and if there is any initiative to make changes, the IRS will target you and the government-controlled media will vilify you.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Today it is much worse than in the 1970s, when the CDC was running the Tuskegee experiments. See how "consultants" create panic for a medicine, and then clean up when congress pays off big time big pharma.
The Los Angeles Times breaks a scandalous story of a Pentagon advisor who lined his own pockets while creating an imagined scenario where currently available antibiotics would be ineffective due to germ resistance, requiring a back – up plan – a multi-million dollar drug that has cost $334 million so far. The developed drug, raxibacumab (for short, raxi) costs $5100 per dose, according to the LA Times report.Called "a horrible conflict of interest," the scaremonger served as advisor both to government and the developmental drug company, taking money from both sides by conducting seminars that government health authorities attended and gaining fees from the drug company as well. Pentagon authorities say they knew nothing about the consultant’s conflict of interest. The developmental drug company eventually sold to a Big Pharma company for $3.6 billion and the consultant, who had purchased 3000 shares, must have reaped a giant gain.
Never mind there is already an effective, cheap, plentiful cure for anthrax called a bacteriophage. Problem is, you cannot patent a bacteriophage (a virus that eats anthrax and is found naturally in pond scum, etc.) If you cannot patent it, it cannot be monopolized, so you cannot rip taxpayers and consumers off at the point of a gun, the operative heart of "intellectual" "property" "rights."
Think in terms of doctors who still use maggots to clean up a nasty wound, since it is faster, cleaner than drugs and devoid of side effects. And for a perfect example of USA medicine in practice, let's listen to a doctor who uses maggots:
"After two or three failures of conventional medical or surgical therapy, maggot therapy should be considered for non-healing wounds, especially those which are infected or contain dead tissue [gangrene]," said Ronald Sherman, a doctor at the department of pathology at the University of California at Irvine.Excuse me doctor. If maggots always work, and the conventional surgery or medicine does not, why not always use what works? The reason is BigPharma first, patients second. People who find that offensive do not go into medicine. People who think that is just fine, do go into medicine. It is a downward spiral (or upward spiral from the point of view of bigpharma.)
And never mind, like the cure for syphilis denied the victims of the CDC experiments of the 1970s, we've known about bacteriophages for a very long time. Google bacteriophage and anthrax. Here is a study from the 1960s. Note the Slavic surnames. Under Communism, there are no "intellectual" "property" "rights." There is no capitalist abuse of consumers. (There's communist abuse, but hey, that's for another day.) So with no need to play the patent game, bacteriophages, a cheap, effective, plentiful antidote to anthrax was developed.
Slate magazine did an article on Georgian cures -
New antibiotics are being discovered. But it takes 10 years and at least $800 million to bring an antibiotic to market, according to theInfectious Diseases Society of America.It takes neither ten years nor $800 million. That is just one of those "moral panic" nonsense figures, never substantiated anywhere, ever, that is repeated in article after article. So people believe it. BigPharma may SPEND 800 million, and what with paying off the people who "oversee" bigPharm, expenses can add up.
There are two ways that phages are currently used in the former Soviet Union, and both pose problems from the point of view of the Food and Drug Administration. At the Tbilisi phage center, phages are personalized: You send your bacterial sample to the lab, and it's either matched up with an existing phage or a phage is cultured just for you. In the United States, by contrast, drugs are mass produced, which makes it easier for the FDA to regulate them.I've been saying for years this will happen, cures will be tailored to you, and since that will not make money for bigPharm, it will not be allowed by the FDA. The FDA protects big Pharma. The way to solve the problem FOR the FDA is to get rid OF the FDA. Under communism, good medicine is allowed.
Phages are also sold over-the-counter in Georgia. People take the popular mixture piobacteriophage, for example, to fight off common infections including staph and strep. These phage mixtures are updated regularly so they can attack newly emerging bacterial strains. In the United States, the FDA would want the phages in each new concoction to be gene sequenced, because regulations require every component of a drug to be identified. To do so would entail prohibitively expensive and lengthy clinical trials.Exactly. Every pharmacy on every corner whips out a cure for what has broken out in the neighborhood. Your local pharmacy has everything it takes to eliminate and anthrax outbreak. But prison and ruin awaits any pharmacist who would do what is common in Russia here in USA.
And note it fights off common infections like staph. Staph? You mean, like MRSA. That deep-secret #1 killer of hospital patients in USA, who die horrible deaths? The disease in USA we have such a hard time trying to figure out a cure? And gee whiz, in USA we just can't find a good one? That disease, that staph? And while we let people suffer with MRSA, Tuskegee style, in USA, there is a cure awaiting, over the counter, in Georgia (the Caucasian country, not the state).
In communist Russia, good medicine cold be had. In capitalist USA, you will go to prison after being swat-teamed, if you survive that.
Using phages to treat infections at home, on the other hand, for the moment seems unlikely. One company recently tried to open a phage center in Tijuana but was deterred by the Mexican government. Phages might be offered someday at clinics on Native American reservations, as a casinolike quirk of legislative autonomy. But for now, U.S. patients at a loss for options may decide that Tbilisi is close enough.A yes, USA and Mexico have such an interesting relationship vis a vis drugs. The Indian reservation is a possible option. Are Indian reservations USA's Hong Kong?
Although the Soviets, (Georgians today) have had the anthrax cure all along, A Rockefeller outfit "discovered" the cure in 2002. The point is, all of the shenanigans outlined in the LA Times story above occurred well after 2002. Like the Tuskegee experiments, we are not told there is a cure when we are being abused by the government medicine authorities.
There was once a huge and powerful government agency called the (ICC) Interstate Commerce Commission. It was created in 1887. By the 1970s it was probably the most powerful government agency, controlling the movement of anything. My favorite president, Jimmy Carter, set in motion deregulation that eventually led to its elimination. It is gone now. After it disappeared there was tremendous improvement in transportation in USA, we got more better cheaper faster. President Reagan enjoyed the delayed benefit from President Carter's action, and Reagan got the credit. (Most people who adore Reagan do not realize the reason they do is for the benefits Carter bestowed on Reagan.)
Getting rid of the ICC brought tremendous benefits to USA. If we were to deregulate medicine, and get rid of the FDA, we'd see a comparable economic recovery and a renaissance in medicine. We could replace all of the CDC functions with a good website, let google handle it. But we live in a capitalist regime right now, and if there is any initiative to make changes, the IRS will target you and the government-controlled media will vilify you.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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