US extracted nicotine on the way?

[we2rcool]

People are definitely giving false confidence to FDA regulation. Hell, 100,000 people with poisoned drinking water is not enough. Now maybe if a few hundred were to die... Meanwhile our government continues on it's hell-bent course of deregulation. One would think the 2008 banking meltdown might be enough to reconsider our current course? No? Well how about the recent FDA plan to turn over poultry inspections to the poultry producers? Does that inspire your confidence?

You know there's a simple saying that seems particularly sage in our current environment of rampant, sociopathic greed, "you get what you inspect".

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

-- Albert Einstein

:::smirk::: a few hundred deaths would make a difference? Only to them and their families. The death toll for Vioxx alone is between 50,000 & 60,000. The JOURNAL of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000, reported how many deaths yearly from approved/correct usage of FDA approved drugs? 106,000 (yes, one hundred and six thousand people)

And get this, the official line of the FDA is that only 1 in 100 adverse effects/deaths are ever reported - so we can take that 106,000 x 100 to get a more accurate number.

No government inspections? Add that to the new Ag-gag laws that make it illegal for people to expose animal abuse on factory animal operations.

We2 aren't holding our breath for the authorities to ever value human life...or animal life...or anything at all except their own agenda and bank accounts.

 

[aikanae1]

Well Chantix settled that $300 million lawsuit from 27 states for sudden onset suicide (never heard of that before) and that was only 80% of the cases - not the "big" ones. Prior to that the FDA almost pulled it off the market due to cardiac problems. You know it had to be bad for them to take that step against a golden goose. I bet few doctors are aware of those things because they get a lot of their information from FDA and drug companies.

 

[Crunktanium]

I bet few doctors are aware of those things because they get a lot of their information from FDA and drug companies.

Doctors often ignore the dangers and aren't allowed to restrict patients from using FDA approved drugs. I had a dentist tell me that if he told patients fluoride was dangerous and it got back to the ADA they would ruin him. Yet it tells you on every tube of toothpaste not to swallow the stuff as to much fluoride can be deadly. The same for doctors they have to abide by what a long list of medical associations dictate. So no doctor is going to bite the hand that feeds them unless they want to practice unlicensed medicine. And they get rewarded for pushing some of the most dangerous drugs on the planet.

 

[Crunktanium]

double post

 

[Youssefa]

A local lung doctor in gainesville sends his patients to our local vape shop, business card (shop), in hand to quit smoking. During a health department ecig awareness county meeting this was brought up. The direct of the North Florida Medical Association was wanted the doctors name so that he could "verify" this claim. The ....... wanted to throw the Pulmonologist to the wolves and burn what was left in effigy for medical misconduct.