ARE FDA-APPROVED DRUGS SAFE?
Pres. Clinton once urged the FDA to view the drug industry as their “partners, not adversaries.” Yeah, sure. Now the cost of this permissive attitude is becoming clear. Seven drugs approved since 1993 have been withdrawn from the market after reports of over 1,000 deaths, according to the Los Angeles Times. The FDA disregarded danger signs and blunt warnings from its own specialists. In cancer, dangerous drugs are routinely approved under the perception that they save lives. However, anticancer drugs only need to show that they shrink tumors, not that they actually increase survival. We must learn to ask hard questions about the safety of all proposed cancer treatments. A PARTING WORD: “Heretics are given us so that we may not remain in infancy. They question, there is discussion, and definitions are arrived at to make an organized faith.
