Re: One sweatlodge death versus thousands dead from psychiatric meds.
computeruser
On Dec 10, Julius Seizure wrote:
> One unfortunate person dies from a newage sweatlodge accident and many
> are up in arms.
> Yet thousands die from "licensed" psychiatrists
> scribbling out prescriptions for dangerous
> psychiatric meds which research shows are no
> better than highly expensive sugar pills.
> These medications, shoved onto the market by pharmaceutical firms that
> tamper with
> their research so they look good, kill or maim thousands every year or
> lead to suicides.
> People need to put the heat on psychiatrists for prescribing this
> junk, the FDA (many formerly employed by pharmaceutical companies),
> and the pharmaceutical companies for their research shell games.
> According to the January 2008 'New England Journal of Medicine' a
> number of major
> pharmaceutical companies fudged the research on the efficacy of
> their antidepressant medications.
>
> Maybe it's time to expose the pharmaceutical companies for playing
> life and death games with
> adults and youngsters.
>
> Many psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and social workers are
> speaking out against these dangerous
> and expensive placebos that have killed or turned people toward
> suicide.
> These bogus drugs waste people's time who could be getting
> real help for depression and anxiety through non chemical ways that
> are shown to help.
>
> One guy dies in a sweat lodge? Thousands die from
> prescription psychiatric medications. The scale
> seems grossly unbalanced.
>
> Check out the FDA data base for deaths from psychiatric medications.
> The numbers are outstanding.
> People are wasting their money and their health. Contact your
> congressmen and senators and request
> a full investigation into pharmaceutical research and how some in the
> FDA looked the other way. Fight the power.
>
> No this isn't Scientology or conspiracy theorists. This website is
> the American Psychiatric Association's:
>
> http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/42/19/8.full
It wasn't one sweatlodge death; it was three plus about twenty more
close calls. How dare you try to deprive people of treatment that
enables them to lead peaceful lives?
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First of all the basic premise is an Apples and Orange comparison.
Second where is Happ? He mentioned cronyism on a number of occasions. There
is a term I had not heard before last week, crony-capitalism. Here is where
I heard it first.
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=2796
Bill Whittle interviews Timothy P. Carney, author of Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends.
This is the problem with both the junk science of global climate change and
big pharmaceutical (getting suspect meds out in the marketplace); being in
bed with the government.