In 1969 the FDA commissioner issued a dire warning: The FDA protects the drug companies not the people

Written by Jo Nova

A reminder that the dark influence of corruption started decades ago:

Herbert Ley, FDA Quote: The FDA protects the big drug companies.

It may have seemed like things went off the rails in the last two years, but it couldn’t have been achieved without fifty years of work. The absurdities just felt like they came out of nowhere.

Herbert Ley sounds like a great man. From Wikipedia:

His three years at the FDA came during the time when the FDA grew from an insignificant agency to the key agency protecting consumers; during that time 300 drugs were removed from the market.[4] After he left, Ley stated that he had “constant, tremendous, sometimes unmerciful pressure” from the drug industry and that the drug company lobbyists, combined with the politicians who worked on behalf of their patrons, could bring “tremendous pressure” to bear on him and his staff, to try preventing FDA restrictions on their drugs.

There’s a sad article in Woroni (Canberra) in 1980 lamenting the reach of drug companies. An antibiotic called Panalba had been sold in the US from 1957 generating $18m in revenue for Upjohn. By 1968 30 experts from the National Academy of Science declared that it was harmful and should be removed from the market. Commissioner Herbert Ley testified that as many as one in five people using it had an allergic reaction and twelve people had died. (Imagine stopping a drug now for 12 deaths?) The FDA finally forced it off the market in the US in 1970. Due to a legal loophole in 1980 the same drug company was still selling the drug in 33 other countries under the name “Albamycin”. Presumably the Big Pharma lobbyists were on good terms with those 33 other drug approval agencies.

Related:

Big Pharma spends twice as much on advertising as it does on developing cancer drugs.

Conflicts of Interest, anyone?

 

h/t Charles

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26 comments to In 1969 the FDA commissioner issued a dire warning: The FDA protects the drug companies not the people

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    Will

    The TGA here has been under the thumb of Big Pharma certainly since the early 1990s and was so probably well before then when it became obvious, to some, that cheap, ancient, effective remedies were being taken off the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) and replaced by expensive Big Pharma products. Most young doctors have never heard of almost of the remedies that were the pharmaceutical chest for most doctors before penicillin/WW2 and if they were aware, would turn their noses up at such. Bug Pharma has done more than dump expensive medication upon us, they have corrupted the teachers and the students in all medical schools to think that only these are the solution.
    The pre-emptive refuting of Ivermectin/Hydroxychloroquine have exposed publicly what has been happening for decades.

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      David Maddison

      cheap, ancient, effective remedies were being taken off the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) and replaced by expensive Big Pharma products.

      Some of those are listed at the link below.

      On that list Tinidazole as an anti-protazoa drug to treat giardiasis from contaminated water (among other uses) was one of them.

      I personally used it once when I became very sick on a trek in Tibet near Everest. It was highly effective and cheap and I bought a supply from Australia.

      It was replaced by metronidazole which is not nearly as effective and takes a week to work unlike Tinidazole which worked almost immediately.

      https://www.tg.org.au/news/practice-changing-updates-in-the-august-2020-release/

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      Plain Jane

      I was with my Dad when his doctor prescribed Colchicine for gout. I remarked that such an ancient drug was still being used, known to be used by anchient Egyptians and many cultures since, up to the present day. He had no idea what I was talking about. It is from the autumn crocus lilly. I trust older drugs more than new ones as we know more about them. If a drug has been around for thousands of years you can be sure that it has some benefits.

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        Earl

        The father of a woman I once worked with did something to one of his big toes and being a male rode it out for a few weeks until it turned black. Wife took him to doctor who examined and said too infected would have to be amputated. Asked what private health they had and when told they had none paused and then said he would try some antibiotics. Do not know what was prescribed but toe cleared up within a month to 6 weeks. In his case not having cover was better than having cover.

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    David Maddison

    In the following video from a few days ago Senator Dr Rand Paul grills Fauci.

    Among other things Senator Paul says (starting at about 5 mins):

    and furthermore we’ve been asking you and you refuse to answer whether anybody on the vaccine committees gets royalties from the pharmaceutical companies – I asked you last time and what was your response? “We don’t have to tell you.” Right. We’ve demanded them through the freedom of information act and what have you said “We’re not going to tell you.”. But I tell you this: When we get in charge we’re going to change the rules and you’ll have to divulge where you get your royalties – from what companies – and if anybody on the committee has a conflict of interest we’re going to learn about it – I promise you that.

    No wonder he’s decided to “retire”.

    https://youtu.be/ppVW5ANM1t8

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    David Maddison

    It was documented in Kennedy’s book about Fauci how researchers at the government institutions Fauci controls can legally collect royalties from drug companies for the results of work they’ve done on government (i.e. taxpayer) time in government (taxpayer) laboratories.

    It’s an extraordinary and bizarre arrangement.

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      Greg in NZ

      NZ coroner finds Pfizzer/B&T jab caused the myocarditis which ended the life of Mr Nairn (26) twelve days after his first, and only, ‘jab’. We’ll see what happens next (crickets?).

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    Doctor T

    And now we have the push for prescribing cannabis to children with an increasing array of “diagnoses”.
    A great insight into this from Quadrant (may be paywalled).
    The gist is that these drugs have no long term data on their use in children, yet the TGA under pressure from Big Pharma seems keen to allow prescription.
    https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/medical-marijuana-a-triumph-of-hope-over-experience/

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      David Maddison

      Not paywalled.

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      David Maddison

      They’re trying to create a generation of zombified and mutilated, sterilised and transgendered children by their unethical and unscientific practice of “Frankenmedicine”.

      This is truly evil and the ultimate form of child abuse.

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      Graeme+P.

      And yet if I smoke a spliff….

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      Sambar

      Family friend GP made the comment that there was nothing in medical canabis that could not be replicated with other drugs, he thought it was a fashionable push to legitimise what, in his opinion was a dangerous drug.

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    Wet Mountains

    Be not dismayed, the bottom is in sight and the rebound will be magnificent to behold. Nothing like being cold and hungry to change your prospective.

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    We have the best government that money can buy.

    – Mark Twain

    Big Pharma money is the latest along with the Climate Scam……………………….

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    Ross

    So, the Australian TGA were under- resourced regarding vaccine evaluation. That’s putting in mildly. But that is the nature of the whole vaccine industry anyway because it is such a small industry. Anyone with talent is already working for the vaccine developers ie. pharmaceutical companies and confined by legal contracts. Plus, there’s all that hush hush stuff – you know, confidentiality regarding technology. The TGA couldn’t just ring up CSL and borrow a couple of techos to evaluate the Pfizer, AstraZ and Moderna data packages. When the vaccine data packages arrived on the desk of the TGA, they didn’t have enough evaluators. So, they borrowed scientific evaluators from other fellow government departments to help out. Unfortunately, those outside scientific evaluators had no expertise in medicine, virology or vaccine technology. In effect, they were just looking for typos. But, it didn’t matter anyway, who was the little Aussie TGA to question any of the data packages when the mighty FDA has approved them all beforehand? Hell, any questioning and our vaccine orders would have been dropped down the list. You could call it a big dose of FOMO for ur government and our piddling little 25 m population.

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      Ted1.

      it was always a problem that virtually all the information was developed and published by the drug suppliers.

      The governing authorities do not generate information. They assess the information from the suppliers until such time as clinical information becomes available.

      But no information from any source can justify the prohibitions placed on legacy drugs for this CV19.

      Dr Blaylock’s call of mass murder of 80% of the people who died is supportable.

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        Ross

        The other thing to remember is that the TGA wont be the authority to investigate any possible vaccine side effects. You could wait until the cows came home for that. They approved all the vaccines, they wont be the institution that then questions their own judgements. Unfortunately, it’s the same problem worldwide and applies to all pharmaceuticals.

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    John Hultquist

    Big Pharma spends twice as much on advertising as it does on developing cancer drugs.

    While this sounds astounding, being out of context makes it hard for me to generate indignation.
    Why?
    Does a company selling BBQ sauce spend more on research than on advertising. How about Kellogg’s — maker of Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes. ‘insert several more here’

    Further, as public companies, if advertising is more import to the bottom line than a specific sort of research where does the fiduciary duty lie?

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