Prime statement: It is not the governments [or an insurance companies] place to protect me from myself. The SOLE legitamite function of law is to protect me from my neighbor and vice versa.
Somehow, it's come down to making stupidity a crime coupled with prevention of learning. These days I can't buy a car that will start without depressing the clutch..and I'll never learn why I should depress the clutch. All my thinking has been done for me. I'll never even know how stupid I can be. Conversely, It's not required that anyone take responsibility for the results of my decisions. If I want to commit suicide, you have no right to forceably prevent it, and no obligation to take care of failure, but you do have a right to sell the leftover meat for dog food to cover cleanup expenses. After all, I didn't respect it, so why should anyone else? However, FULL disclosure is essential for proper decision making...not one sided propaganda.[regardless of what side] Government should not take sides, it should inform without ommission. [[On a positive note, drug ads now have disclaimers even to the extreme...WARNING "This sleep aid may cause drowsiness"]] Prime statement: Freedom and security are diametrically opposing concepts. If I expect anyone to bail me out, I give up the freedom to row my boat. "The FDA has no information that "xxx" is safe and effective" Just because thay don't have the info doesn't mean the info that others have is false. [Or true..it means nothing] CS probably DOES kill 650 pathogens [in petrie dishes]...but...getting the CS TO the pathogens in the body where they are causing disease...that's the problem. So, "kills 650 disease causing organisms" and "cures 650 diseases" are not the same statement. One statement doesn't mean the other is true nor does it NOT mean the other is true to no extent. Both sides omit the lack of continuity. It certainly is a concern that CS sellers [read "hucksters"] make fantastic claims when they have no idea of what they're talking about with the same mouth breeze that the FDA uses to make counterclaims. Cure arthritis? Probably not. Prevent a specific pathogen caused arthritis? Maybe. so. Kills viruses? Almost certainly. Cures virus caused disease? Maybe. Be aware that "treatment" and "cure" are two different things. Treatment means "might work" Cure means "did work". No treatment is a guarantee. Most have some risks. Many "accepted" ones have very serious risks, the least of which is failure to cure. Listers know there are limits and that CS is not a 100% miracle cure but we also know from experience that it's not worthless. NO TREATMENT is 100% ,FDA approved or not. Every case and every person is unique. Effectiveness is a statistical thing, not an absolute even in the FDAs own protocal...but they ignore statistics from any source other than an approved one. [and the approved sources stilt the statistics nearly as badly as the hucksters] Further, the FDA grossly misrepresents the info they DO have. http://silverpuppy.com/fda.html Why in heck doesn't the FDA do some research themselves to prove that something ISN'T safe and effective rather than just saying it isn't because no one has done [or released] the research? ..gosh! So many new silver products being marketed now..with FDA approval! I know of at least 3 doctors and one dentist that have been amazed by their patients recoveries after their treatments failed...but the evidence hits a blank wall even when it's right in their face. Placebo effect? Spontanious remission? Maybe so, but none want to look. It must have been a miracle. OK, cool. But why are thousands of testimonials simply dismissed...even if the hundreds of amazed doctors clam up? Some doctors admit amazement and even do some testing...but that is also "dismissed". [OK, so that's not proof. But no one has "proof" of anything. They operate on statistical "indications". Thousands of testimonials and many studies indicate "nothing there, so don't even look"?] Personally, I'll do my rain dance and let everyone believe what they want..nor will I tell you what to believe one way or the other. My disclaimer: I only say what "I" see and do..not what you should. You have your brain, not mine, for a reason. Does the FDA do any more than rubber stamp a drug companies research on their own product..then pull it when hundreds die? Not. Some protection! The FDA should take over testing if they're going to make negative claims. They should do the testing on public monies and take steps to insure impartiality. The drug companies should stick to developmental research and drop their prices to reflect the savings. "Hey, look what we found! This is why we think it will work. Check it out and see if it works like we think it will" Any other way amounts to approving the company...not the product. We all know that it's impossible to get to Pluto because no one in an official position has done it yet. [but that doesn't mean that everyone who tries is going to get there] "I don't know" doesn't make it 'so' any more than "someone said so"..but neither statement doesn't make it NOT so, either. "WE don't know anything about it and won't look, so it's nothing..and if it's nothing, it must be dangerous." B.A.H.! [Bullshit and Hypocrisy] ..and by the way, If by chance We DO take a look at something we know nothing about...we'll be sure to look at something that 'looks something like it' presented to us by people who don't want us to see , rather than "IT". Bank robbers are professionals too...making money the old fashioned way. Ken At 05:32 PM 7/12/01 -0700, you wrote: > > "...The FDA and FTC have identified firms that marketed >Colloidal Silver as > a cure, treatment, or prevention of serious diseases. As part >of Cure.All, > the FDA identified forty-eight (48) Web sites that made >serious drug > claims for Colloidal Silver, as well as a number of other >products. The > FDA sent these Web sites Cyber Letters, untitled letters sent >via > electronic mail, informing them that their products were >being promoted > for conditions that may cause the products to be considered >drugs and > therefore may be in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and >Cosmetics > Act. As a direct result of these Cyber Letters, 27 percent of >the sites > complied by removing or changing the violative claims..." > >Full article: >http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/06/cureall.htm >============================== >Gee, wonder if it's OK to even THINK about it? >jr > > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
