Not bad coverage. Pity about the Godwin's Law infringements with "storm troopers" etc, it only weakens the force of the argument.
Re this: >For example, only the makers of FDA approved drugs can use the word >cure, or even imply any health benefits without the FDA considering >the product a drug. The catch is that in order to be FDA approved, >no matter how many PubMed cited studies or other studies have been >performed, and no matter how much of a history of hundreds or >thousands of years and users, the FDA only approves drugs that go >through its specific approval process --- one that costs hundreds >of billions of dollars. Could that be right? It really costs hundreds of billions of dollars to get a drug approved? Does it cost even hundreds of millions? Best Keith >Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues >Tuesday, February 26, 2008 >by: Tony Isaacs, citizen journalist >_http://www.naturalnews.com/022728.html_ >(http://www.naturalnews.com/022728.html) > > >(NaturalNews) The recent widespread mainstream media coverage of the >**blue man** Paul Karason and his rare skin condition known as Argyria is the >latest in a series of largely misleading and sensationalized scare stories >about the dangers of colloidal silver turning a person`s skin blue. > >Although this latest story did not appear to originate from mainstream >medicine or the FDA, there is little doubt that they have welcomed it with >open arms and have been quick to trot out **medical experts** and past FDA >warnings to help **sing the blues** about colloidal silver. The truth is that >mainstream medicine has a very good reason to cry long and loud about >colloidal silver, because it does represent a very real danger - a >danger to the >huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry*s patented antibiotics. > >The truth is that silver has been used effectively by mankind to fight >germs and ailments for thousands of years, and the instances of modern use of >colloidal silver turning people*s skin blue are so rare as to be almost >non-existent - and unlike thousands of prescribed and approved >over-the-counter > mainstream medications including the common aspirin, silver has never >killed anyone. As a matter of fact, almost all of the relative handful of >reported instances have involved one or more of the following: older silver >products that contained as much as 10% or more silver (compared to mere parts >per million in modern colloidal silver), silver nitrate, home made colloidal >silver that was contaminated with salt, and silver that has been consumed >continuously in very large quantities over a very long period of time. > >In the case of Karason, he made his own ionic silver at home for almost >two decades and for many years consumed a quart or more per day. I daresay >that any prescribed or over-the-counter medication whose recommended dosage >was a couple of teaspoons a day would do far worse than turn a person blue >if they drank a quart or more of it a year! For the sake of comparison, >drinking a quart or more per day of colloidal silver would be like a person >taking several bottles of aspirin a day, a practice that would be lethal in >short order. Karason actually appears to enjoy his notoriety as the Papa Smurf > blue man, and even though he sings the praises of how colloidal silver >saved his life and the many ailments he believes it cured, the focus of >attention is on his blue skin - a condition that is actually reversible with >proper diet and herbal cleanses despite mainstream claims to the contrary. > >What is also true about colloidal silver is that it is far safer, more >effective and less expensive than the marginally effective and side effect >laden mainstream antibiotics - and has mainstream and university studies >proving it dating back to the early 1900*s. The best and strongest of the FDA >approved antibiotics are effective for a handful of bacteria at best, whereas >colloidal silver is supremely effective against just about every kind of >single celled pathogen, including bacteria, fungal growths and viruses (which > antibiotics are often wrongly prescribed for, despite the fact that >antibiotics have no effect on viruses). > >If the public were told the truth, a rarity when it comes to mainstream >drugs versus natural competition, colloidal silver would represent a huge >threat to literally billions of dollars of profits and so it is no >wonder that >mainstream medicine and their allies in the mainstream media are once again > loudly singing the blues - just as they have repeatedly done in the past >with misleading stories and studies about a great many popular natural >plants, supplements, vitamins and minerals that represent threats >to mainstream >drug profits because they are safer, more effective and less expensive >alternatives to the unnatural, side effect laden, hugely expensive and >marginally effective synthetics created in the labs of the powerful world >pharmaceutical empire. > >While there are a great many natural threats to mainstream profits, whose >use and track records of safety and effectiveness date back hundreds and >even thousands of years, perhaps no natural alternative to mainstream drugs >represents as big of a threat to industry profits as colloidal silver, and >it is no coincidence that colloidal silver has been placed at the very top >of the FDA/mainstream medicine hit list. > >However, when it comes to warning and scaring people away from silver, >both the mainstream medical industry and the FDA have serious credibility >problems. First of all, silver has a history of safe and effective use dating >back thousands of years. In addition, it continues to be widely used today, >including being used by NASA, the US military and Potters for Peace for >water purification, being used as a germicidal agent by hospitals and medical >suppliers and was recently incorporated into a new line of hospital pajamas >to prevent the spread of infection, to name just a few of its present day >uses. > >The biggest credibility problem of all for mainstream medicine and the FDA >regarding silver is likely how they both approved and embraced silver for >medicinal use at one time - yet now would have us believe that silver is >both ineffective and dangerous. At one time silver products were very much in >favor with both mainstream medicine and the FDA. No fewer than 34 different > prescribed over-the-counter medications containing silver were not only >widely sold by industry, they were also approved by the very same FDA which >now seeks to warn us of its dangers and have us believe it is ineffective. > >What changed their minds? Perhaps the obvious answer can be found in the >fact that silver fell out of favor at the very same time that patented sulfa >drugs and patented antibiotics created in drug company labs came on the >market. Once that happened, the non-patentable silver was no longer a tool >for healing, but a threat to profits. > >Zealous protection of mainstream approved drugs and suppression of natural >competition is nothing new -look at the estimated 100,000 or more deaths >caused by Vioxx before the FDA finally removed it from the market. Look at >the ridiculous actions of the FDA when it threatened Washington cherry >growers for telling the truth about the health benefits of eating >cherries, or >at the storm trooper actions against the makers of Charantia (bitter melon) >tea in Florida who dared put references to some of the 650 plus PubMed >studies and citations about bitter melon on their website. > >The FDA persecutions and prosecutions of cherry farmers, bitter melon, and >a long line of other natural alternatives points out just how extreme the >protection of the big drug companies` products and profits really is. >Consider this: other than issues of national security, only in >natural health is >it a crime to tell the truth due to the way the FDA has construed their >rules and definitions to protect industry. For example, if a company were to >advertise that vitamin C was a cure for scurvy, as everyone knows is true, >that company could be prosecuted for selling unapproved drugs. The same >would be true if a company printed a testimonial from someone who reported >health benefits due to vitamin C, or any other vitamin, mineral, >supplement or >non FDA approved drug. > >For example, only the makers of FDA approved drugs can use the word cure, >or even imply any health benefits without the FDA considering the product a >drug. The catch is that in order to be FDA approved, no matter how many >PubMed cited studies or other studies have been performed, and no matter how >much of a history of hundreds or thousands of years and users, the FDA only >approves drugs that go through its specific approval process --- one that >costs hundreds of billions of dollars. > >When it comes to natural alternatives, spending such money on a natural >product is prohibitive, since it could not be patented and could be freely >and cheaply sold by any number of competitors and it would be virtually >impossible to ever recover all the costs of getting the natural product >approved. Though the process is purported to be one which protects >the public from >unsafe medicines (and we see how well that worked for the hall of shame >list of drugs like Vioxx, Avandia, etc.), the net effect of the FDA*s drug >definitions and approval process is to exclude natural competition and insure >that only the patentable and profitable synthetics created in drug company >labs can be approved and marketed as having health benefits. > >The most recent example of such one-sided treatment favoring industry came >in the following news story earlier this past week about a lawsuit filed >against the FDA by Public Citizen after the FDA ignored years of complaints >about the dangers of ruptured tendons caused by one of the drug industry*s >most powerful and profitable antibiotics: > >WASHINGTON, D.C. **Despite long-standing evidence that fluoroquinolone >antibiotics can cause tendon ruptures, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) >has failed to increase its warnings to patients and physicians about the >dangers of the medicines, Public Citizen told a federal court Thursday. > >Public Citizen sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of >Columbia, asking the court to force the FDA to act upon a petition >the consumer >group filed with the agency 16 months ago. The FDA has failed to respond to >the petition, which asked the agency to put a **black box** warning on >fluoroquinolone antibiotics (such as Cipro, Levaquin and others) to >make doctors >and patients more aware of the risk of serious tendon injury before >tendons actually rupture. > >The petition also urged the FDA to send a warning letter to physicians, as >well as require an FDA-approved medication guide to be dispensed when >prescriptions are filled. Public Citizen contends that the FDA is >violating the >Administrative Procedure Act by not acting upon the petition. > >Stronger warnings could lead to earlier intervention and prevent needless >injuries by allowing doctors to switch patients to other antibiotics, said >Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen*s Health Research Group. > >**While the FDA sits idly by and ignores the problem, more people will >suffer serious tendon ruptures that could have been prevented,** Wolfe said. >**The current warning is buried in a long list of possible adverse reactions >and is far too easy to miss.** > >>From November 1997 through December 2005, the FDA received 262 reports of >tendon ruptures, mainly of the Achilles tendon, 258 cases of tendinitis and >274 cases of other tendon disorders in patients using fluoroquinolone >antibiotics. An additional 74 tendon ruptures have subsequently been reported >to the FDA for a total of 336. Because only a small fraction of cases are >typically reported to the FDA, the actual number of ruptures and other tendon >injuries attributable to the antibiotic is much higher. > >Source: Healthy News > >One can only imagine the FDA*s reaction if 336 tendon ruptures had been >reported for those who take the best antibiotic and pathogen destroyer on the >planet - colloidal silver. No doubt, they would have raided the >manufacturer with storm troopers and shut it down years ago, just as >they have done >many times with the manufacturers and sellers of other natural competitors >to drug company products. > > >In conclusion, as far as I can tell, not one single instance of Argyria >has been attributed to properly made colloidal that was not consumed in >amounts that were up to hundreds of times the recommended dosage, >that has not >stopped the FDA from continuing to **sing the blues** about silver or from >going after those who make and sell colloidal silver products, not because >silver represents a whit of threat to human health but rather because it >represents a threat to the inflated bottom line profits of the >mainstream drug >manufacturers. > >Finding out who the FDA really serves is a simple task - all you have to >do is follow the money. But don`t simply take my word, let a noted past FDA >commissioner tell you very clearly what the FDA is really about: > >**The FDA *protects* the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, >and using the government*s police powers they attack those who threaten >the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them. > >It isn*t. > >What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as >different as night and day.** > >Dr. Herbert Ley Former U.S. FDA Commissioner > >About the author > >Tony Isaacs, is a natural health advocate and researcher and the author of >books and articles about natural health including "_Cancer's Natural >Enemy_ (http://tbyil.com/rose-laurel.htm) " and "_Collected Remedies_ >(http://www.tbyil.com/RLBooks.htm) "as well as song lyrics and >humorous anecdotal >stories. Mr. Isaacs also has _The Best Years in Life_ >(http://www.tbyil.com/) >website for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs >and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives >naturally. He is currently residing in the scenic Texas hill country near >Utopia, Texas where he serves as a consultant to the _Utopia Silver_ >(http://www.utopiasilver.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=18_1_bid_3) >colloidal silver and > supplement company and where he is working on a major book project due for > publication later this year. Mr. Isaacs also hosts the CureZone "_Ask Tony >Isaacs_ (http://curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=861&p=14) " forum as well as >the Yahoo Health Group "_Oleander Soup_ >(http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/oleandersoup/) " > > (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090504/db0403ff/attachment.html >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
