Reid, I recommend reading, carefully, the material at altcancer.com r.e. the Hoxey clinics. You might change your mind.
JBB Reid Harvey wrote: > > Marshall, > I haven't been aware of the history of which you speak, regarding the > FDA's creation due to the threat posed to the drug companies by CS and > other so called alternatives. I'd be grateful if you could cite the > source of this very interesting information! Where is the history > accurately recounted? I would savour every word. Meanwhile I'll stand > by my assertion that a big part of what's involved is neurosis. I think > it's also easy to justify regulation and the approval process on the > basis of the flim flam alternatives. Just the other day I was taken to > task in a presentation I did, that rhino horn and other snake oil do > indeed justify government warning, and the seeds of 'claiming to be > protecting the public.' That CS gets catagorized with rhino horn is > unfortunate, but it does feed the neurosis. At the bottom line the > business experts at the drug companies would be especially prone to > justification by neurosis. > Reid > > Marshall wrote: > I disagree. Study your history. Silver was a primary curative agent > before > the FDA, and basically the FDA and drug companies stomped it out back in > the > 30's. I had read somewhere the the FDA was created specifically to > eliminate > silver and other non-patentable curative agents from the doctor's > cabinets > as they were costing the pharms dearly. > > So they proposed that any drug must require an approval process that > requires millions of dollars, knowing that anything that was not > patentable > would never be approved since there would never be any incentive to get > it > approved. An underhanded way of protecting their profits while claiming > to > be protecting the public. > > Marshall > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
